Working in the World Directory

The Center for Biography and Social Art is pleased to facilitate connection to and among those practicing biography and social art.

  • Karen Nani Apana

    San Francisco, CA
    naniapana@gmail.com

    Ph.D. California Institute for Integral Studies;
    MA, BA, California Teaching Credential,
    San Francisco State University. All levels of Biography workshops with groups, teachers, parents and schools, basic and advanced. Private consultations with individuals. Waldorf school mentoring with faculty and parents.

  • Paulette Arnold

    Evanston, Illinois
    paulettea123@hotmail.com

    (715) 923-6484

    Paulette holds a certificate from the Center for Biography and Social Art and has been an Anthroposophical adult educator for more than 15 years, with a special interest in the variety of ways human beings educate their young and the development of the individual within a social setting. A graduate of Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Education Program, she has taught children from early childhood through high school, and is a current Council member and librarian of the Anthroposophic Society Branch in Chicago.

  • Linda Bergh

    Minneapolis, MN
    hellolindabergh@gmail.com

    (512) 325-2775

    Biography Facilitator: Individual consultations, workshops, and courses in the Midwest, including Waldorf Schools and The Great Lakes Teacher Training and AWSNA.

    Biographical work as it relates to Conscious Dying

  • Leo Beth

    Zeist, the Netherlands
    leo.beth@hetnet.nl
    leobeth.info

    Phone: 0031 610940258

    Biographical counseling and consultation, if possible within legal requirements face to face (ex-pats in Europe) but if necessary digitally.

  • Jennifer Brooks-Quinn

    jbrooksquinn@gmail.com
    jenniferbrooksquinn.com

    (914) 584-8408

    

•  Biographical counseling and consultations
    •  Workshops, courses and seminars
    • Therapeutic group work.

  • Kathleen Bowen

    Northampton, MA
    kb@kathleenbowen.com
    www.kathleenbowen.com

    Workshops, biographical consultations with individuals, conference sessions, small groups and Waldorf faculty

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Barbara Buchman

    Falls Church, VA
    handworkjmom@gmail.com

    (240) 370-4529

    I offer workshops on a variety of topics including sleep and what it means to be a teacher or a student. I will also consider individual, one-on-one biography work. I am a trained Waldorf teacher and have studied Steiner for 30 years.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Chris Burke

    Bucks County, PA
    contact@riverbendbiographical.com 
    www.riverbendbiographical.com

    Drawing from my experience as a social scientist and psychology professor, I offer biography and social art workshops and personal consultations on a wide range of topics, including grief, aging, and emerging adulthood. Together with Anne de Wild, I am also co-founder of The Hummingbird Principle, an initiative aimed at helping people identify and take up their role in facing the challenges of the modern world.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Douglas Garrett

    Southern California
    dgarrett60@gmail.com

    Email: dgarrett60@gmail.com

    Phone: 714-746-5033

    Douglas is a graduate of the three-year biography and social art (BSA) training, and serves as Vice President of the CBSA Board. His special interest is in human biography in health and illness. He is available for individual and group sessions. (He has facilitated Waldorf school faculty BSA sessions, and is working with a class teacher on BSA experiences for parents). He met anthroposophy during his 33 years in Waldorf education as a parent, trustee and 9 years as a school administrator. He teaches and deepens his learning and spiritual practice with Rudolf Steiner’s basic books in the Waldorf adult education program at the Waldorf School of Orange County in Southern California.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Sandy Crater LaGrega

    Greensboro, NC

    (336) 908-4664

    BS Early Childhood ED, M ed Curriculum Development, CAS (certificate of advanced study) Educational Supervision, Waldorf Administration and Community Development—Sunbridge College, School of Spiritual Psychology/ Sacred Service, Caritas, Dying Awake etc., Biography and Social Art Training—Sunbridge College, Triptychon training.

  • Dorothy LeBaron

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    dorothy@biographycoach.ca
    biographycoach.ca

    Biography coaching, arts-based learning, individual sessions, group workshops, corporate programs.

    Diploma in Life as Art – Biography Studies, Arscura School for Living Art, Canada

  • Ivette Lenard – Attentive Heart Coaching

    Rockland County, NY
    ilenard@attentiveheartcoaching.com attentiveheartcoaching.com

    (914) 260-9334

    I offer a combination of biographical and psychosynthesis coaching (one-on-one) as well as classes for anthroposophical training programs or institutions. It is my goal to offer small workshops for the general public which might include a somatic component.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Janey Newton

    Prospect, KY
    janey@foxhollow.com

    (502) 550‐5441

    Biographical conversations, workshops, Board retreats.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Linda Ogden-Wolgemuth

    New York, NY
    oggywoggy3@icloud.com

    (917) 656-2778

    I offer coaching, workshops, and small group work to anyone interested in gaining a deeper perspective into their own biography and the biography of being a human being. As I carry experiences as a Waldorf parent, administrator, and educator in my personal toolbox, I am particularly experienced in this area, but am interested to work with anyone who is curious and open to looking at biography through a new lens.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Cathy O’Neill

    Santa Monica, CA
    cathyron@me.com

    Biography 101 for individuals and I have an ongoing group (3 years) for parents, alumni and guests of the Westside Waldorf School in California.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Sarah Putnam

    Clemmons, NC
    sputnam01@att.net

    www.associatesforprofessionaldevelopment.com/biography

    (336) 972-8243

    Biographical consultations, workshops, coaching, small groups, instructor of Center for Anthroposophy Foundation Studies course in biography and social art.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Joseph Rubano

    Oceanside, CA
    josrubano@hotmail.com
    www.josephrubano.com

    (760) 754-1148

    Biographical counseling, coaching, workshops, small groups, classes.

    Certificate in Biographical Counseling, UK

  • Patricia Rubano

    Oceanside, CA
    patricia@biographysocialart.org

    (760) 529-3977

    Biography and Social Art workshops and courses for the public and existing groups such as faculties, parents and trainings.

    I studied biographical counseling in the U.K. before being invited to join the faculty of the Biography and Social Art Certificate Program in the U.S.. I am the current director and representative for the training in the International Trainers Forum.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art



  • Signe Schaefer

    Great Barrington, MA
    signeschaefer17@gmail.com

    (413) 528-2319 

    Workshops, small groups, biographical conversations with individuals and working groups.  


  • Leah Walker

    Chicago, IL
    biographyworker@gmail.com
    www.biographyworker.com

    (512) 585-7402

    Biography work, biographical counseling, small groups, workshops, presentations – for everyone.

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Susan West Kurz

    Jamestown, RI // Ocala, FL
    susan@biographyandsocialart.com
    www.biographyandsocialart.com

    (401) 284-6111

    I offer group workshops as well as one on one consultations. I’ve worked with schools, art centers and writers. I also offer workshops on Biography and Social Art and finding themes for writing memoir.

    Re-Membering Your Story

    Certificate in Biography and Social Art

  • Jean Yeager

    Rutland, VT
    jwyeager2@gmail.com
    the-three.com

    (802) 855-8877

    Workshops and introduction courses in Waldorf Schools and local community. Teach 10-week introduction to biography classes in my local jail. Have taught an intro course as part of a degree program at Champlain College in Burlington, VT.

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There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe… At every crossing of the threads there is an individual. And every individual is a crystal bead. And every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe.

-Anne Adams, from Rig Veda