Lynn Ely, RN, BSN
Creative inspiration and curator for Awakening Planet.
Lynn has answered an inner call that awakened in her many years ago. Creating this website, telling a new story of humankind, one rooted in love, has uplifted, inspired and changed her life in meaningful ways. She is excited to share that with you now. Through channels such as this website, she is optimistic that humanity will turn its attention to a new way of living and loving on the planet.
A Global Movement
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Worldwide Goodwill Ambassadors
Ireland
Ralph Waldron.
Ralph lives in Athleague in County Roscommon which is located in the middle of Ireland. He is currently retired (self employed). Ralph told me he is interested in the natural world, loves trees, thinks David Attenborough is a wonderful man and Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl is cause for hope. Regarding his thoughts about the state of the world and what most needs our attention, he said, “Regardless of the veracity of whether we are affecting climate change of not, the use of plastic, coal, petroleum etc is unsustainable. Anyone that does anything or invents something that helps is to be applauded.”
Kenya
Mbaarak Abdalla
Mbaarak lives in Mombasa,Kenya and is the Founder and Program Director at Brain Youth Group and Founder and President of the Forest Restoration Agency. Biodiversity conservation is his passion. Forest Restoration Agency plans to plant 3.5 Billion trees by 2035 in collaboration with our team members, governments, schools, corporations, foundations, individuals and communities across the globe to cool our earth.
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Good Will Ambassadors
Building Star Communities/Nevada County
Katherine Doolittle
Born and raised in Michigan, Katherine moved to San Francisco where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Development and Human Behavior from University of San Francisco.
She began the first ten years of her career working for two San Francisco luxury hotels in sales and marketing. For the following 15 years, she worked for the University of California, San Francisco, Davis and Berkeley where she created interactive programs to connect the public with the universities. During that time, she was an active board member and vice chair of the San Francisco County Leadership Board for United Way and South of Market Child Care. She retired from UC to take a position as community outreach manager increasing education and awareness on behalf of organ and tissue donation for the 11 counties surrounding the Sacramento area which she did for seven years.
She and her husband Jim moved to Nevada County in 2008 where they both have been actively involved in the community. Together, they helped to launch the Nevada City Farmers Market as well as volunteered for SYRCL, Sierra Harvest and other local non-profits. Katherine was also Administrative and Development Director for 4 Elements Earth Education as well as board member, volunteer and staff member for One Source-Empowering Caregivers.
Deeply rooted in her small mid-western community values, Katherine brings warmth, enthusiasm and positivity to her activism. She continually strives to make her community safer, warmer and more interactive/connecting for all. Nevada City’s year round events, vibrant organic farms, the wide array of arts, spiritual outlets and educational opportunities are some the many qualities that drew her to Nevada County and for which she enthusiastically supports.
Katherine is a mother of two sons, friend to many, and always willing to serve her community in ways that benefit the collective. and
Elders
Shirley Freriks
Born in 1940, Shirley was raised in the Ohio/Michigan area of the US and graduated from University of Michigan in 1962. She moved to San Francisco in 1962 and began a career in retailing including with the The Gap helping to power that business to its success. After briefly retiring from The Gap, she reentered a second career with Williams-Sonoma until her official ‘retirement’ in 1982.
After 15 years of travel and personal study in Tai Qi Xuan, Gi Gong and energy work, Shirley longed for a quieter, more contemplative life which inspired her to purchase an isolated, but degraded and logged 20 acre piece of land in Albion, Mendocino. She spent the next 20 years living a sustainable life, tending, caring for and ‘reinspiring’ the land and redwood forest, restoring a farmhouse, building a meditation studio, creating gardens and living by her wits.
Desiring to pursue meaningful engagement with the issues she cared about and to reconnect with others more, she sold the Homestead and bought a home in Grass Valley, Ca. where she started the WasteNOT group which focuses on recycling education and plastics reduction as well as the Elders in Action group. Elders Action Network is her major focus now whose focus is to build a movement to give elders a voice and purpose. She has also been actively involved with Nevada County Climate Action Now group.
In Shirley’s words, “there is a BIG difference between being an ELDER and being elderly. I represent the vital engaged elder who is involved with life now and fortunate to have the perspective of one who has been alive for a pretty long time. We are a new breed of ancestors involved in the 21st century and working on the solutions demanded today”.
See: Elders
Relationships- Intimate
Sonika Tinker, MSW, and Christian Pedersen
Loving husband-wife team, Sonika and Christian are Relationship Experts with over 40 years combined experience coaching and leading seminars teaching their LoveWorks solution – a proven path to empowered relationship and fulfilling intimacy – to thousands of couples and singles. Sonika is a Certified NLP ProfessionalTM, Certified Enneagram Teacher, Certified Mediator and Co-author of Seize Your Opportunities and The Good Divorce. Christian is a Certified Life Coach, Certified Mediator, Mankind Project leader in training and author of When You Love Your Woman. They are the founders of LoveWorks,loveworksforyou.com, a cutting-edge relationship training company that offers an innovative relationship solution that is uplifting, light-hearted and powerfully effective.
See: Relationships
Sustainability
Jonathan Altman
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Jonathan describes his life first and foremost as a journey of spiritual learning and understanding. From his early experiences at the height of the Haight(Ashbury) days and time spent with Sai Baba in India, through his career in the healing arts as a Healing Tao teacher and the owner/director of a holistic health center in Pacific Beach, to his current life tending the gardens of the Madre Grande Monastery, he considers his life blessed.
Madre Garden is an eco-environment that sits on a 264 acre property in a remote valley southeast of San Diego. The land contains the remnants of a 9000 year old village used for fertility and feminine empowerment for centuries making it a feminine energy vortex and is open to the public by appointment. Utilizing his 50 year gardening experience, he has planted a mini conifer forest, eucalyptus grove, vegetable gardens, orchard as well as many flowering trees and shrubs, citrus, guavas, pomegranates and mulberries attracting many butterflies, bees and birds to Madre gardens.
See: Sustainability
Womankind
Marilyn Nyborg
Marilyn Nyborg, was a successful business owner and high tech recruiter in Silicon Valley for 25 years and is the co-founder of Gather the Women Global Matrix and Indivisible Women. She is also the founder of Gather the Women of Nevada County and Women Waking the World more recently a board member of the U.S. TreeSisters.org.. Marilyn is a master networker with 45 years of connections in women’s leadership and women’s circles. She is the author of Sacred Activism for Women, a Speaker and Tele-Seminar Leader, and Producer of a video The Book of Jane: The Story of Woman. She was a presenter twice for The World Parliament of Religions 2019 and 2021.
Marilyn has taken her lifetime of experiences in Sacred Activism to develop an international network to restore feminine wisdom, values and influence in the service of all life. She is committed to a world that creates change in cultural values, personal choices, and policies worldwide that shift humanity’s consciousness from separation and domination to integration and unity.
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