Kristy
McFetridge- McConnell
Kristy is the Founder and
Director of Mountain Sky Nature-Based Education and Healing. She has taught wilderness survival skills,
nature awareness, energy work, healing, and the philosophy of living in balance
with the earth to thousands of people.
Born in
Devoted to learning through experience, Kristy dedicated over
a year of her life to practicing primitive survival skills and clarifying her
personal vision. During this year long
quest she lived in an earthen shelter and adopted the simple lifestyle of
indigenous cultures. She worked for over
five years as an instructor at Tom Brown’s
Pam Harrington
Pam Harrington is the co-founder and Executive Director of Mountain Mammas Charites. She has also been the co-owner/operator of Mountain Mammas Trails and Training, LLC since 2002. Pam has ridden and owned horses for over 33 years. She has believed in, and witnessed first hand, the healing power of horses since she was a child. She has been studying under Horsemanship trainer Jerry Ward since 2003. Pam is an EAGALA certified Equine Specialist and has assisted in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Programs for over 3 years. In addition to this, Pam has helped create and implement multiple team building programs for local and international businesses such as Organic India, Spectralink, Ability Specialists, Apex Leadership Training, Boulder County IMPACT, Morris Financial and many others.
In 1998 Pam took her first Primitive Skills class with Richard Dart at Naropa University. This sparked a passion that she has been studying ever since. She has since taken classes at The Tracker School in New Jersey and at PAST Skills in Montana, as well as extensive personal study. Pam has collaborated with The Cottonwood Institute, The Earth-Based Institute and Wild Bear Center for Nature Discovery teaching various survival and tracking programs. Pam believes that to heal people in any capacity the first step is re-connection with the Earth and your ancestors. She sees Primitive Skills as the beginning of this process.
Pam graduated from Naropa University with a B.A. in 1999. She is currently studying the Body Knowledge Method of Pilates in order to become a Pilates Instructor. She has always been interested in the mind body connection and is looking to fulfill her interest in this through her Pilates training. She is also studying SRI (Soma Respritory Intergration) as part of her Pilates training with Lara Kolesar of Kolesar Studios in Longmont Co.
JOAN REIGER
Joan Reiger has worked with MMC for 2 years as our psychotherapist and EAP Counselor. Joan received her B. A. in Psychology and Communications from the University of Michigan (1990), and her Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University (2001) in Boulder, Colorado. She is also a certified Gestalt therapist from the Gestalt Institute of the Rockies (2002) and trained in EMDR
Joan
has over 10 years experience
working with individuals, couples, and families dealing with matters
such as depression, conflict, anger, abuse, trauma, grief, loss,
addictive behaviors, body image and eating disorders, anxiety, major
transitions, and relationship issues. She was an administrator and
family
therapist for a nationally known wilderness therapy program for at-risk
teenagers for 3 years. Joan also has over 10 years of corporate
experience in business planning and development, and with helping
clients
with work performance or career satisfaction issues. In addition to
this Joan has done consulting with
businesses on strategy, organizational effectiveness, and structure.
For more information on Joan, look at her web site : www.joanreiger.com
