mary branch grove

Mary Branch Grove, MSW, LCSW, is a unique healer and teacher who combines a ceaseless appetite for new knowledge with a love of teaching and traveling. She has been studying healing arts since 1982 including body work, hands on healing, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, esoteric healing, transpersonal psychotherapy, trance work, feng shui, shamanism, meditation, clinical social work and past life regression.

Mary Branch Grove is a deeply compassionate, insightful and no-nonsense healer and teacher who uses an interactive approach to encourage healing and empowerment in her clients and students. As a teacher she uses the breadth of her experience to help students receive a sound foundation in working with energy. As a therapist she brings her deep compassion and empathy to the goal of eliminating suffering and trauma. She lives and works in Northern Virginia and travels extensively to bring her skills where they are needed.

THREE YEAR SCHOOL

The Three Year School, through the use of multiple and diverse schools of knowledge, allows participants to create, deepen and diversify their path toward a healing practice. You will be taught by experts in their fields who practice a hands-on approach to learning.

FORMAT

Participants will meet onsite for four days, four times per year with meetings and assignments between onsite trainings.  Seeking to incorporate the new experiences and knowledge in your practice and bringing back observations, thoughts and questions will stimulate the learning process.

There will be:

• Lectures
• In-class training
• At home practice

A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the coursework. (Opportunities for Ordination are available, and are optional.)

PRACTITIONERS

Expert Practitioners in several specialty areas will bring their unique knowledge and training to bear in the classes. Collaboration with these teachers widens the potential for learning and healing in the program as well as broadening the conceptualization of what it means to be a Healer.

to apply

Applicants must obtain and complete an application by August 15, 2015 and will be notified of their acceptance into the program.

Susan Hough

Susan is a CTI trained Life Coach with a BSW and over thirty years of experience in the traditional mental health field. However, it is her indigenous ritual and healing training with Mietek Wierkus, Mary Branch Grove, Jennifer Halls, and the Internationally renowned African Spiritualist, Sobonfu Some’, that truly inspires her work.

Susan is a graduate of Ms. Some’s, Ritual Healing Village has been mentored by the Author and Ritualist for the past 14 years, and directs her nonprofit's youth fundraising that has built over 25 wells in indigenous communities. Susan combines her traditional training with a connection to spirit and indigenous wisdom in her Intuitive Activation Coaching and unique Ritual-based Group work.

ELLEN LABELLE

Ellen LaBelle leads interactive seminars integrating leading edge scientific findings with her forty years of experience as a practitioner of the Healing Arts and as a physician. She specializes in the earth wisdom teachings from the ancient Mayan culture. She seeks to share this knowledge with others to promote harmony and balance within the self, across teams and organizations, and in the world.