Ann Marie Waterhouse, M. A.
EagleHeart Consulting
955 Liberty Boulevard, #304
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 53590;
Home: 608.837.7558; cell: 608.334.7402; eagleforth@charter.net

Résumé December 2011

Personal Background/Commitments:

My commitment is to live from a place of wholeness. My purpose is to help people discover parts of themselves that have become lost or buried and to assist in integrating these parts into their lives. I seek to empower people, rather than encouraging dependence on outside support. My goal is to support people in becoming whole, healthy and happy, capable of moving forward in their lives and contributing in a positive way to a healthy world.

Currently, I teach Reiki and shamanism and provide Reiki and shamanic healing sessions and ceremonial facilitation and support. I am an ordained minister in the Circle of the Sacred Earth Church, the religious arm of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. I facilitate a weekly women's drum circle; membership is by invitation.

Educational Background:

  • Master of Arts degree in Human Development, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, August 1996. (Course list is provided as part of this résumé.)
  • Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism with a Science minor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1972.
  • Studied Reiki, 1996-2000.
  • Studied shamanism through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies based in California, 1994-1999. Completed foundation courses: The Basic Workshop, Spirits of Nature, Death and Dying and Divination. Participated in a one-year intensive course in Chicago under the direction of Myron Eshowsky and Annette Hulefeld, 1996.
  • Studied ceremonial and shamanic healing with Brooke Medicine Eagle, Myron Eshowsky, Wallace Black Elk, Wind Daughter, Angeles Arrien, Bear Heart, Robert Moss, the Ehama Institute, Herb Stevenson and Patrick Price.
  • Studied and practiced the Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Kendall Rice, River Falls, Wisconsin, 1994-1996.
  • Studied The Tarot with Karen Wallace of Victoria, B. C., as a way to support intuitive, spiritual and personal development, 2003-2004.
  • Studied the 6,000-year-old temples on the Island of Malta built to honor the Goddess/Earth Mother in a two-week, sacred pilgrimage led by Jennifer Berezan and Joan Marler, 2004.
  • Studied ancient history in Turkey, visiting ancient archeological/Goddess sites dating back to 9300 BCE, led by author, poet and professor Resit Ergener.

Work Experience:

  • Worked with neighborhood-based, community economic development efforts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975-1980.
  • Served as Upper Midwest Regional Director of the National Cooperative Bank, 1980-1982.
  • Worked as an organization development consultant both inside of corporations and independently, 1982-1996.
  • Worked as an independent consultant based in Madison, WI, consulting mostly with natural food cooperatives nationwide and environmental and community development groups in Wisconsin, 1996-2006.

  • Currently focusing on healing, natural health, teaching and photography.

  • Provide wedding and healing ceremonies as requested

  • Teach Reiki Levels I, II and III and provide Reiki and Shamanic Reiki healing sessions regularly
  • Teach basic shamanic practices and provide shamanic healing, Sun Prairie, WI
  • Taught a year-long intensive shamanic professional development program for women interested in becoming shamanic teachers and healers; currently scheduling a second year-long course

Community Involvement:

  • Participate in a 9-person shamanic drumming circle that meets monthly to provide personal and spiritual support to its members and distant shamanic and energetic healing to those who request it, 1997-present.
  • Participate in and host a women's shamanic drum circle that meets monthly.
  • Facilitated the All Communities Shamanic Drumming Circle, an open circle that taught and practiced shamanism twice a month, Madison, WI, 1998-2005.
  • Completed two, 3-year terms as a board member of the Williamson Street Grocery Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin; serving as the Chairperson of the Owner Relations and Policy Governance Committees, among other appointments, 2000-2006.
  • Facilitated Sweat Lodge Ceremonies at the request of Potawatome elder, Kendall Rice, Cottage Grove, WI, 1998-2006.
  • Ordained as a High Priestess by a community of women in a ceremony partially transmitted to me in a shamanic journey, August 2004 led by Ellen Hufschmidt of Duluth, MN.
  • Appointed a minister in the Circle of the Sacred Earth Church, October 1, 2006.
  • Completed two years of the Spiral Door Mystery School, Temple of Diana, Hollendale, Wisconsin, Ruth Barrett, High Priestess/facilitator and Falcon River, teacher/mentor.
  • Served as founding President of Crown Point Condominium Owners’ Association, managing a 52-unit, senior condo in Sun Prairie, WI, 2009-2011
  • Am a member of Madison Monthly Meeting: Religious Society of Friends, Madison Quakers. Attend meetings for worship weekly.
  • Participate in Alzheimer Caregiver Support Group meetings and educational seminars monthly through the Sun Prairie Colonial Club and the Alzheimer's Association of South Central Wisconsin
  • Member, Center for Photography at Madison; attend monthly meetings and informational seminars and workshops regularly; had a photo show November and December 2011 at The Gardens in Madison, WI entitled Sacred Landscapes of New Mexico, including 30 framed images from a trip in February 2011

Master’s Degree Courses, Completed August 1996:

  • Theory and Practice of Ritual
  • Philosophy of Healing
  • Process of Human Development
  • Theories of Personality
  • Meditation
  • Creativity and Self-Renewal
  • Jungian and Archetypal Psychology I
  • Developmental Psychology
  • The Medicine Wheel and Community Building
  • Symbols and Dream Work
  • Therapeutic Use of Imagery for Psychological and Spiritual Growth
  • Shamanic Journey
  • Goddess Religion
  • Ceremony and Community
  • Honoring Spirit at Work
  • Psychological Transformation and the Spiritual Journey
  • Shamanic Journey and Organizational Transformation
  • Earth and the Feminine as Healer

Thesis: A Jungian interpretation of the Divine Female…The Archetypal Feminine as Healer: Ways to
Reconnect with Our Inner Feminine, July 1996.

Currently…

  • Teach a series of ½-day shamanic workshops and a year-long series on Shamanic Professional Development
  • Teach Reiki I, II and provide Master’s Level training
  • Provide Reiki hands-on healing sessions
  • Provide shamanic healing sessions
  • Provide wedding ceremonies and other ceremonial support as requested
  • Working on a photography book of photos of Mallard Island, Rainy Lake, MN with my sister, Beth Waterhouse
  • Supporting my husband on his path to discover what living with a diagnosis of Alzheimers means to him