Sunny Schlenger

“I believe that everything in your life is connected. Understanding the connections between what you love, what you do, what you’ve saved and what you want out of life will start you on an amazing journey of discovery and personal development.”

Sunny Schlenger is a professional organizer, author and mentor with over 30 years of experience as a pioneer in her field. She helped launch the “custom-tailored” approach to getting organized in the 90’s with her best-selling book, How To Be Organized In Spite Of Yourself, whose approach was licensed by Harvard University’s training and development program. She then took the concept of organizing to the next level by integrating it with spirituality. The result, Organizing For The Spirit was published in 2004.

In addition, Sunny has also been named as a “flow master” by Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom, authors of The Power of Flow (New York: Random House, 1997). The title designates someone who is one of a group of people “highly engaged in the natural, effortless, unfolding of life in a way that moves them towards wholeness and harmony.” As a consultant, author, coach and mentor, Sunny has worked with thousands of people, assisting them in their quest for self-realization, productivity and peace.

Sunny earned her B.A. in Social & Behavioral Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University and her M.Ed. in Counseling from UNC at Chapel Hill.

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Cathy Speck

Cathy Speck a Davis native, still lives in Davis with her wife, Linda Duval and Mazie, the amazing monkey-face pug/poodle/terrier princess.Their duo, DuvalSpeck, were  regional musical favorites for years. Now Speck is dying from ALS, and can not sing anymore. Thus, a new career has launched --she's a writier!

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Jo Hatcher

Jo was born in a small town in Georgia and knew at a very early age that she wanted to see the world. She left Georgia at the age of twenty-three working her way through different parts of the US and landed in Anchorage, Alaska. She worked for awhile on the Alaska-Canadian pipeline, moved to Northern California, then Southern California, and wound up living for five years on a small island in the South Pacific. She eventually returned to Northern California with her two young sons.

Sharing her writing with others is new; however, her shelves are stacked with journals filled with words and images. She is fascinated with words and the way that it's possible to make sense of life's journeys with images adding color and depth to her understanding.

Davis, California has been her home since 1995. Jo has been a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist for 18 years and after discovering the world of coaching and retreats in 2005, she has focused on integrating therapy, coaching, & retreats. She has worked on military installations from Germany to Japan since 2006 and now plans to stay at home and devote her energies full time to retreats, coaching, photography, and writing.

Jo is a Master Certified Retreat Coach and leads retreats for busy women who want to find the balance in their lives. Her retreats and workshops offer participants an opportunity to go within, to discover sanctuary and renewal while exploring new ideas and practices that encourage healing and self empowerment. Finding the pleasure and zest in life's opportunities and challenges has been a steady and focused goal throughout Jo's life.

Currently, Jo is developing her "Women Touching Across the Globe Retreats" for women who are interested in meeting women of less advantage to help empower the feminine divine and create systems of change. She is in the beginning stages of co-creating a retreat in Guatemala scheduled for April 2012.

Jo lives with the man of her dreams, Thom, also a psychotherapist and a professional photographer. They have joyfully raised two sons who are US Marine Corps officers.
She is passionate about dancing, eating healthy, growing veggies, green smoothies, yoga, teleclasses, and anything to do with traveling to exotic places.

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Rebecca Bresnick Holmes

Rebecca is a mother, potter and ceramic artist, former attorney, and backyard chicken enthusiast. When taking a break from parenting, she runs a working ceramic studio in Winters, California, where she has lived since 2003 with her husband and two sons.

Although relatively new to the world of backyard chickens, she quickly became fully engrossed and now spends a great deal of time simply watching her seven chickens. Now, instead of going to the gym or taking care of last night's dishes, sipping an early morning coffee while chicken-watching is one of her favorite activities. With encouragement from friends, Rebecca started to write about her observations of comical and sometimes perplexing chicken behaviors.

Rebecca is a member of The Artery (an artist cooperative in Davis, California), and also offers her work for sale at her Winters studio (The Clayground). In addition to thrown functional-ware, tiles, and decorative work, she recently started making chicken-themed ceramic artwork at the request of her new chicken friends.

In a former life and before having children, Rebecca was a practicing attorney in Sacramento. She earned her JD from UC Davis King Hall School of Law. Before that, she spent several years in Boston and has spent a significant and formative period of her life in Madrid, Spain.

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