Emily Frost and Quetzal Francois are the heart of Love Your Nature and facilitators of Real Talk Curriculum. They bring over 20 years combined experience working with youth and families around the Bay Area. From the classroom to the back-country, they have worked with almost every age. Quetzal and Emily met in 2015, and it was love at first sight! Since then they have joined forces to offer Real Talk for teens and families.
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EMILY FROST is an artist, girls empowerment coach and contemporary rites of passage guide working with youth and families around the Bay Area. She is also a devoted mother, wife, sister and daughter. She is the Founding Director of LOVE YOUR NATURE, a movement devoted to girls and women awakening to their inherent wisdom, power, and purpose. Emily offers 1:1 sessions with teen girls, young women and parents in her private practice in Berkeley, CA, and facilitates programs that develop social, emotional and spiritual intelligence, with a focus on girls coming of age.
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QUETZAL FRANCOIS is an educator, mentor, and activist. She works with young people and adults, in groups and individually, all over the Bay Area. Quetzal Francois brings 10 years of experience designing curriculum and facilitating groups for teens and people who work with teens. Her focus is on social and emotional intelligence, communication skills, intimacy, gender, empowered sexual health education, self harm, developing self confidence, building healthy and nurturing relationships (romantic and platonic), and LGBTQ matters.
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Apprentice
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My name is ISABELLA MASTERSON and I am a junior at UC Davis, studying for a double major in Psychology and Human Development with a minor in Asian American Studies. During the school year, I work at the university Sexual Violence Prevention office creating curriculum and working to educate the campus community on how to prevent sexual violence. I have been in one of Emily's groups since 6th grade, about a decade. It is one of the best spaces I have ever had the honor of being a part of. I cannot recommend it enough. I am very excited to be assisting this year and get to know some of the teens. Learn more about Isabella...
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Operations
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DANE ZAHORSKY recently joined Love Your Nature as the Operations Wizard, offering skilled guidance through essential systems to run the business well. In the rest of his life, is honored and privileged to act as one of the co-directors of Youth Passageways; a network of rite of passage practitioners working to regenerate healthy passages into mature adulthood for today’s youth. In his 'free' time, he seeks to be of service to living an examined life, rooted in a meeting of what is ancient with what is emergent, with all the fallibility and conflicting emotionality it entails. He believes in food prepared, art made or money tended with humility and as energetic exchange are sacred beautiful things, in the power of 'administrative' ritual as essentially transformative, and generally, in the creative animate force in all things. Engage him through that work at Make Trybe or Youth Passageways.
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Advisory Council
Our project is blessed to have strong circles of support informing, advising and inspiring our work. Our Advisory Council includes key individuals with key expertise in our area of focus, and a strong relationship to our project. We are so grateful for all they have done to become the friends, mentors, and anchors along our journey as we evolve our work.
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CHARIS DENISON is a nationally recognized youth advocate, teacher, parent educator, and expert on what teenagers need to develop new life skills. She brings 23+ years experience to Prajna Consulting, empowering young people to make choices that end in honor and joy rather than guilt, shame, or regret. She partners with youth, families, schools, organizations and communities around human development, social justice, and ethics. Charis has received national recognition for her work and has been on the faculty of the Urban School of San Francisco, Branson School, and Marin Academy in San Rafael CA.
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For twenty years, VANESSA STONE has served as a visionary, teacher, humanitarian leader, inspired speaker, group facilitator, and mentor. She has been working, serving and creating with a global community of youth and adults through the Amala Foundation, a non profit she founded in 2001. Vanessa has initiated and served as lead facilitator in many transformational projects including, The Global Youth Peace Summits, Camp Indigo, Bhatti Mines School Project in India, Camp Mana, One Village Prison Project, African Youth Summits and currently co-founder of The Institute for Emerging Visionaries.
In 2016, the Mana Project was founded as visionary farm, living classroom and sanctuary for contemplation and self inquiry. The Mana Project offers transformational, experiential learning opportunities for adults and young visionary leaders in the fields of regenerative agriculture, humanitarian service and community healing arts. Vanessa is devoted to co-create in service with community, and continue to mentor and inspire people from all over the world to put voice to vision, serve creation, study nature, realize authentic freedom and live for the soul. |
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DIANA DIVECHA, Ph.D., is a Berkeley-based developmental psychologist who consults, writes, and speaks about the science of how children, teens, and families grow and develop. She is a research affiliate with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and is an advisor to The Greater Good Science Center, Futures Without Violence, Stepping Stones, and the National Partnership for Women and Families.
She has written about children’s needs in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, Psychology Today, The Hill, Time, Inc., and regularly on her blog. In an earlier life, she taught developmental courses and was the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development at Sonoma State University. Diana and her husband have two daughters happily launched into adulthood. |
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ROCHELLE MCLAUGHLIN is an internationally known meditation teacher, clinician of mind/body medicine, lifestyle change, and self-healing. She is an author, speaker, and creator of the Experience Revolutionary Wellness Virtual Village.
Rochelle inspires individuals to turn towards their direct experience of the present moment as a source of power and 'revolutionary wellness'. She asks us to look for what deeply nourishes our heart, body, and mind and take a radical stand in our own life and health. Rochelle has touched many lives through her courses, retreats, guidance and compassionate listening. She shares the message of Revolutionary Wellness through her website, private coaching, silent retreats, the Revolutionary Wellness Talk Radio show, and the mindfulness- based stress reduction course she teaches at San Jose State University. Rochelle's life’s work is to empower people to get themselves out from under unsatisfactory circumstances, to rise up, and thrive. |
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BETH BERRY is a writer, life coach, mother of four daughters and the voice of Revolution From Home. We met through her coaching program Motherworthy - an intimate year-long program designed for awakening mothers who are fed up with the status quo and inspired to get messy and courageous to cultivate change from the inside out. Beth has since become an incredible ally to us and our work, particularly by inspiring our messages through her writing and curriculum.
In her own words... "Few things bring me more joy than witnessing and supporting people as they grow into truer, more fully realized versions of themselves. My work in the world is to keep my heart open (even when doing so is painful), to seek, honor, and revive the sacred feminine, and to hold a lantern for those ready to journey deeper within." |
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