Shauna has
had a strong interest in building community and making
communities safe. She was recruited at 15 to be the teen
representative on the Board of the Chartier's Valley
Mental Heath's Teen Hotline Program. She began that year
to counsel teens and to work the Hotline. After college
she worked at shelters for Abused Women and Children, and
did counseling and community outreach at an urban Native
American organization. As a young mother she was on the
Board of Director's of Greenpeace Great Lakes, planning
and executing various environmental campaigns.
With children in
school Shauna became active in community organizing, as
well as school related groups. She began attending
workshops, meditation groups, self-help programs and
trainings. Through extensive work on her own issues,
Shauna was able to build workshops around conflict
resolution, intimacy, leadership, denial, self-awareness,
and responsibility. Her interest in promoting inspiring
and thought provoking literature led her to produce and
host Dialogue: Conversations with Authors, a television
show aired in Chicago, Illinois from 1991-1997.
Shauna is currently
the Manager of Facilitation Programs at the Peninsula
Conflict Resolution Center. She is a mediator for the
City of Palo Alto, CA where she also serves on the Human
Relations Commission. Shauna is the mother of an adult
son and daughter and has a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in
Communications from Northwestern University.
Shauna continues to
believe that we can each make a difference. We are each
responsible for the life we are choosing to live, and
even the world we are choosing to live in. As long as we
blame others, as long as we turn over responsibility to
another person, institution or government, we can not be
free. As a society we have created a destructive
environment. As an individual we can join with others to
shift the patterns. The workshops in this series can be
an opening for each of us to work toward something
greater than ourselves. Perhaps even a chance at saving
this Mother Planet.