DR. LISA COONEY, MFT

Dr. Lisa Cooney, coast to coast radio host, international facilitator, inspirational speaker, master trainer, and licensed psychotherapist is the CEO of the LEAP programs and workshops. She holds a doctoral degree in Transpersonal Psychology and Spiritual Inquiry, is a Reiki Master and Theta Healer, and holds extensive certifications in Shamanic Training, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy, Breath Therapy, Dream Leadership Training and has over 18 years experience facilitating group workshops on interpersonal and intra-personal dynamics.

She has created a Transdisciplinary approach to healing and personal transformation that originates from a way of living balanced in mind, body and spirit. She models and teaches principles of leadership, self empowerment, and collaborative relationship that transcend cultural and religious divides. These teachings originated from her deep belief in personal healing and transformation work. Leap was created as a Lived Program as it arises from your own Lived Inquiry which she feels is the cornerstone to and essential for anything that is taught locally and globally.

The visioning of LEAP as a place where individuals safely awaken to their fullest potential while resting in the support of conscious and loving community, began at the age of seven. Dr. Cooney has extrapolated that vision in her published dissertation entitled “Finding and Forming Spiritual Identity through Cooperative Inquiry,” and in her numerous published articles. She is currently in the process of writing a book on empowerment, the law of attraction and women business entrepreneurs.

Dr. Cooney offers you the opportunity to reclaim your personal power and manifest the life of your dreams in a sacred healing cauldron. She provides practical step by step teachings on living and connecting with gratitude and unconditional love while allowing yourself to LEAP to your greatest success. Her rich indigenous healing background, education and diverse training invites individuals to create a haven of hope and a home for themselves from within. She calls her work in service of the core spirituality of love, unconditional kindness and positive regard for all, as taught by her spiritual teacher Ammachi.

Dr. Cooney is a sought after inspirational speaker and master trainer in the field of healing consciousness, psycho-spirituality, and holistic empowerment. Her goal is to teach all souls how to empower THEIR life and live holistically balanced in mind, body and spirit. This goal is based on a desire to emerge, engage, and unleash future leaders in every field, and most specifically leaders who are empowered in their own lives, to bring a sustainable group of people, dedicated to change making and consciousness raising in local and global communities. She lives by the words of Ghandi, “we must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

For more information call Dr. Lisa at 415-307-5922 or email her at drlisa@aboutleap.com


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“The minute I walked into your office many years ago, you read right into me. I knew then finally someone was seeing me. You read me like a book and are the one who opened my eyes to knowing who I truly was. Your eyes melted my heart. It is like you knew my blueprint and you stood back and watched it unfold. If it wasn’t for your wisdom and teaching, I could have never come this far. You taught me the strength of truth and my power to be my true indigo self. Without your leadership I could have never come this far. Words cannot begin to express my gratitude. For all of this I thank you from the bottom of my soul.”
Indigo O

“You are so amazing! You are so real and down to earth, creative, brilliant, funny, supportive and so much more. You are truly a very dynamic and special woman and I’m going to miss you muchisimo! Thank you for pushing me, listening to me and of course all your hugs, rocks, energy work, Amma oil and music. I was thinking that you remind me of a rock that keeps me grounded and strong. But the rock is also a place where I can lean back, sit for a while and be held. Thank you, Lisa!”
Deirdre

DR. HELAINE SHEIAS CGF

Dr. Helaine Sheias, CGF is Executive Director of the Life Empowerment Action Programs and Workshops, an Eco-Spiritual Counselor, Certified International Group Facilitator, and a YogaHealing Teacher.  She holds a doctoral degree in Human Sciences and a Masters in developmental psychology, with a focus on special education. Dr. Shieas is also the creator of the LEAP Global Bridging Programs.

As a graduate of the Socially Engaged Spirituality program at Saybrook Graduate School she strongly embodies the need to integrate transformative learning, person-centered spiritual inquiry and ethno-autobiographical journeying into individuals' healing processes. She is an avid eco-feminist who is devoted to the mission of nurturing learning communities through the compassionate act of "hearing one another into speech". Over the years she has created a transdisciplinary approach to confronting issues of diversity, social marginalization, and multicultural based conflict based on a unique interweaving of spiritual, ecological and psychosocial attributes. Extensively trained in heart-centered breath therapy, cooperative inquiry and indigenous healing modalities she believes that the true essence of self-realization can be found through acts of love, tolerance and mindfulness.

Dr. Helaine returns to her homeland in the U.S. after spending more than three decades in Israel. Through her own acculturation process as a new immigrant in the Middle East she accumulated a rich and diverse expertise in transformative learning methodologies which include teaching; program coordination/supervision; teacher/staff training and workshops, mentoring and supervision of teaching teams; special education/programs for the learning disabled; early childhood instruction/developmental seminars; educational reform programs; and consulting within the field of early childhood special education.

Dr. Helaine’s private practice provides a transdisciplinary approach to counseling that revolves around eco-therapy, spiritual counseling, transpersonal psychology and ethno-autobiographical inquiry. Her first clients were young adults who were challenged with an array of learning disabilities such as ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, communication disorders, low self-esteem and lack of social skills. Guided by a diverse assortment of indigenous healing techniques she invites her clients to embark upon a journey of enrichment and self-empowerment, which leads to a dramatic change in their quality of life.

In addition to this work Dr. Helaine has also began to work intensively with women on developing a greater sense of empowerment through authentic reconnection with their bodily, cognitive, emotional and spiritual intelligences. Her life passion is to create an empowering instrument for bringing about spiritual consciousness and awareness of indigenous origins, leading to individual and communal healing amid diverse groups of both men and women. Using cooperative inquiry as the foundation to deepen processes of self-exploration through the "hearing and seeing of others", she facilitates circles of transformation and change by modeling measures of experiential wisdom, social engagement and self-reflection. Weaving the strands between compassionate listening, non-violent social action and ethno-autobiographic healing storytelling, she believes that she can help bring about a radical turn in cultural and ethnic awareness in today's society. In doing so, she teaches individuals how to maintain sacredness in their lives by consistently embodying a sense of 'wholeness', i.e., by staying in relation and in participation to the land and to the peoples where they reside. This healing process involves the reconnection of individuals to the psychological and eco-spiritual aspects of their own sense of completeness in order that they may incorporate these procedures as part of their in-depth cleansing and healing processes. In doing so individuals learn to reveal, acknowledge, repent and finally shed those attributes of themselves which can often be linked to the oppression and suffering of others.

It is Dr. Helaine's dream to sow these seeds of sacred healing throughout the continents and to gradually transform them into kernels of hope and peace, thus bridging all people together in love, truth and integrity.

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“It seemed in our first session in the yurt, you had read into me from the first words spoken. You knew more about my indigo self then I could ever have known. Your faith in my indigo side, your support and understanding of it, gave me strength in believing that I am special and being who I am was ok, more than ok, awesome. You taught me of my Kingdom, of being my King and of my universal laws, which no one understood but you. You have truly opened my eyes to all that is wonderful about being and Indigo King. Words cannot express my gratitude. I thank you from the depths of my soul.”
Indigo O

I just think you are so cool. I love the words, the letters, the associations, the connections, the devotion to hearing your own voice -- and using your voice fearlessly and clearly. I am wearing it today and I plan on pinning it the the inside of my wedding dress. Its the "something blue" of the whole "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". And everytime I see the necklace, I love having letters of my own to wear. Letters as protection. Thank you for bringing it to me. Thanks for being a guide for me and Jonathan right now.
Courntey