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Curriculum Vitae
Holly Blue Hawkins

Curriculum Vitae

 

Summary of Public Presentations and Training Experience

2000-2001: Classes statewide; mentoring program for Mother Drum carriers (for more information see Classes).
1999-2000: Book promotion tour, drumming demonstrations & classes throughout California 
1988-2001: Drummer and assistant to Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American métis teacher and spiritual leader, providing teaching components in drumming, dance, and singing.
1999: Drummer for Confluence: A Feathered Pipe Foundation presentation, with Angeles Arrien, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Malidoma & Sobonfu Some, and John O'Donohue
1996-1999: Computer Literacy Trainer: Microsoft Word, Excel, Windows, QuickBooksPro
1998: Co-Presenter in Santa Cruz County public schools of "Dance in Rhythm - Rhythm in Dance" through SPECTRA program.
1997: Diversity Trainer, National Coalition Building Institute, Santa Cruz County Chapter
1997: Presenter, Association for Transpersonal Psychology's annual conference, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California.
1997: Presenter, Institute of Noetic Sciences annual conference, Palm Springs, California (assisting Brooke Medicine Eagle).
1997: Presenter, Healing Quest Conference, Sarasota, Florida.
1994-2000: Member and occasional soloist, Temple Beth El Choir, Aptos, California.
1988: Drummer and musician, Aha Hui Wahine: Who Heals The Healers?, Pahala, Hawai'i.
1986-1988: Workshop Facilitator and for Alternatives to Violence, Wailuku, Maui.
1985-1988: Co-Facilitator of Maui Community Correctional Facility weekly inmate support group under auspices of Shanti Nilaya Maui (founded by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross).
1983-1986 Member, Puppets on the Path, touring environmental education puppet troupe, based in Volcano, Hawai'i

Publications

Works in progress: Medicine Drum: Rhythms for Living; and I've Waited My Whole Life to Turn Fifty
1999: The Heart of the Circle: A Guide to Drumming
Freedom, California: The Crossing Press.
1993: In the Land of The Sees-In-The-Dark
original poetry, reflections, and short stories
Self-published

Work Experience

2000-Present: Rhythm Fusion, Inc., Operations
1996-2000: Writer and Business Consultant - Specializing in Workplace Diversity, Information Technology and Communications.
1994-1995: Executive Assistant to President/CEO of Mid-Coast Visiting Nurse Association of Santa Cruz County and VNA Extended Care, a multi-corporate home health care agency.
1992-1994: Paralegal with the Law Offices of Gary Haraldsen, Watsonville, California.
1990-1992: Co-owner & builder, Adam Hawkins Furniture.
1989-1992: Retail sales, and buyer, Five Mile House natural foods grocery, Corralitos, California.
1986-1988: Counselor with Alternatives to Violence, Wailuku, Maui.
   

Education

1997-2000: Completed three-year training program with Heidrun Hoffmann, Dance in Rhythm – Rhythm in Dance.
1997: Certification in National Coalition Building Institute's Prejudice Reduction Workshop, workshop and leadership training (taught by founder, Cherie Brown)
1996: Psychosynthesis International World Conference, San Diego, California
1993-1997: Annual Conferences of The Association for Transpersonal Psychology, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California
1993: Foundation For Shamanic Studies, Sonoma, California, Core Shamanism, Soul Retrieval, Shamanic Counseling
1993: Angeles Arrien Foundation, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, Cross-Cultural Shamanic Practices
1991: Stephen & Ondrea Levine, In the Heart of Relationship, San Francisco, California
1986: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Life, Death and Transition, Oahu, Hawai'i
1985: Certification, Maui Mediation Services
1985: 12th International Human Unity Conference, Lie, Hawai'i
1983: Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, Ho'oponopono, Basic and Advanced Training, Opihikau & Hilo, Hawai'i
1983: University of Hawai’i, Hilo, Hawaiian Studies and Speech Communications
1970-1976: Santa Barbara Community College, Liberal Arts