Meredith L. Young-Sowers, D. Div., CIH, Executive Director
Meredith is an expert in the field of integrative—or holistic healing. Her specialty is the role that our emotions and spiritual energy play in the healing process. Her focus on the body demonstrates how the disturbances in our physical health shed light on the same disturbances in our relationships. She helps people use the power of spiritual energy to refocus their healing around their own inner vitality and passion.
Meredith has spent her life developing an understanding of the movement of emotional and spiritual energy in the mind and the body. She has developed The Stillpoint Model of Life Healing that teaches people how healing happens through assisting the body by aligning thoughts, feelings and ways of living with their genuine nature and true inner goodness.
A well-respected and loved spiritual healer and teacher, Meredith creates amazing openings for healing in those with whom she works. She is the co-founder, along with her husband Errol, of the Stillpoint Foundation. She founded the Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing as a way to share her in-depth understanding of healing with students from around the world who want to heal their own lives and discover more about ways to use their gifts and talents to assist others in their own healing and awakening.
The Stillpoint Foundation’s focus as a 501C3 public charity is to offer the ways and means for people to open to their own direct connection with Spirit in order to find the confidence and compassion for themselves and others to facilitate nothing less than a genuine and lasting global consciousness shift.
Meredith is a Doctor of Divinity who has used her own spiritual awakening as the basis to learn how healing can best be approached and accomplished in today’s world. People from all walks of life are helped in lasting ways and opened to their own bright inner light of inner knowing. The experiential practices that she takes participants through are both creative and truly transformative.

Pat Garvey, RN, M.A., CIH, Associate Director
As the Associate Director of the Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing and Director of Programs and External Affairs for the Stillpoint Foundation, Pat continues a career long focus on educating and motivating others to experience themselves as “original blessings” as she guides them to heal, to be open to the power of Divine Love, and to live their lives with joy and generosity.
Pat received her RN from St. Vincent’s Hospital in NYC and has a Master’s degree in Family Counseling. She is a holistic therapist as well as a Reiki Master and Hypnotist. She has also received training in the fields of psychosynthesis, therapeutic touch, and Mid-Life Directions Consulting and has been a leader in relationship education. She graduated from the Stillpoint Program in 2000 and was a teacher in the program in 2001. She is also a trainer for The Stillpoint Women Moving through Breast Cancer Program.

Assistant Teachers
A dedicated and handpicked staff of Assistant Teachers also supports you in the program. All Assistant Teachers are graduates of The Stillpoint School and represent a variety of ways that the work is being used in the world. Their commitment to the Stillpoint work and their own Spiritual paths is of the utmost importance in their being chosen to carry out this important responsibility.
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East Coast Teachers
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| Ann Holmblad, BFRP, M.S., CIH Ann received her BS from SUNY at Albany and graduated with a Master's in Rehabilitation Counseling from the Memphis State University. She has worked in hospital rehabilitation wards, peer counseling and self-employment programs for people with disabilities and through Vermont's vocational rehabilitation program. She currently works part-time as a Vermont Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor as well as maintaining a healing practice.
In addition, Ann is a Harp Therapy Practitioner from the International Harp Therapy Program, a certified Bach Flower Registered Practitioner, an assessor for students undertaking the Practitioner Course and a Mentor for Level One students in the Distance Learning Program. She is also involved in the Compassionate Listening Program under whose sponsorship she recently traveled to Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
Ann graduated from the Stillpoint Program in 2001 as a Certified Intuitive Healer (Life Healing Coach & Spiritual Mentor) and is currently a teacher in the program. She teaches the Stillpoint Master Teachers Program, Living Your Purpose... On Purpose, and is also on the Graduate Faculty for student supervision.
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| Phoebe Price, MA in Education, CIH Phoebe is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, receiving a degree in Psychology, and Antioch New England, for a Masters in Education. Phoebe graduated from the Stillpoint Program in June 2003 as a Certified Intuitive Healer.
She started her professional life as an elementary school teacher and she now commits her days to her practice as a CIH in Keene, NH. She also works at her local hospital as a certified Doula, nurturing the spiritual experience of childbirth for laboring moms. Phoebe has experience working with Hospice and is working on the new SWEEP initiative to bring Stillpoint's work to women in shelters and prisons.
Phoebe is honored to be teaching at Stillpoint and finds the work with her clients to be a powerful learning journey on a daily basis. She lives in Harrisville, NH with her loving husband Matt, and her two wonderful daughters, Lydia and Isabel. In what little spare time she has, she enjoys reading, writing, running, and figure skating.
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Patricia Krukowski, B.S. Biology, M.S. Counseling, 6th Yr. Ed. Adm., CIH
Throughout her career in education, Pat has been a teacher, curriculum and professional development specialist, principal, and assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Her passion for learning led her to concentrate her efforts on coaching both teachers and administrators to continue learning and growing as professionals.
Pat has focused her educational career on working with students with special needs and their teachers and families. Pat’s search for a deeper connection with Spirit in her own life led her to become a student at Stillpoint from which she graduated in 2006 as a Certified Intuitive Healer.
Her experience at Stillpoint was so transformational that she is now inspired to work with people who are searching for deeper meaning in their lives. Her calling now is to use her teaching and counseling skills to help people believe in and rely on their own deep knowing and to assist them in healing themselves in body, mind, and spirit.
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East Coast Grad Coordinator
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| Diane Rubeo, RN, MSN, EMBA, CIH Diane received her Master's Degree in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and her Executive Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of New Haven. She was Nurse Manager of the Primary Care Center, Adult Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1981 to 1999. In 1999, Diane assumed the role of Clinical Nurse Specialist and on October 15, 2001, she began a new position as the Nurse Manager of Internal Medicine and Urgent Care at the Yale Health Plan, the health services of Yale University. Diane is also a Reiki Practitioner.
By combining the discipline of Nursing with the Complementary Modalities of Reiki, Energy Healing and Spiritual Counseling, she is able to provide an eclectic and comprehensive approach to healing and spiritual growth.
"As a Nurse and as a Healer, I have been invited into the inner spaces of people's lives where joy, sorrow, loneliness, pain, desperation and peace reside. Those inner spaces become the "sacred spaces" where transformation and wholeness are born and sustained through the power of Divine Love. My intention is to assist clients on their journey by helping them recognize and embrace their own power to heal and their ability to make positive change in their lives."
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West Coast Teachers
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| Susan Painter, International Astrologer, CIH Susan has been a counseling astrologer and teacher for over 20 years. Her international practice specializes in psychological and relationship astrology, but true to the Gemini that she is there are no aspects of the art that don’t interest her. She is co-author of Quantum Relationships: It’s Written in the Stars!, and author of the astrology section in the Flavia teenage book for girls, Finding my Groove: Who I am and Where I’m Going. Susan uses the tool of astrology to create awareness and understanding of our authentic nature, and as a key to empowerment and fulfillment of creative potential.
Upon graduation from the Stillpoint School, Susan was so impassioned by the program she bought a house in Walpole, NH, to be used as a gathering place for the Stillpoint community and as a facility for training graduates in the Stillpoint Foundation’s service programs. It is called Hope House.
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Judith Ewing, MA, M.Ed., CIH
Judith was awarded her Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Houston (TX), and her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Institute (Santa Barbara, CA). In 2006 she received an Intuitive Healer Certification (Life Healing Coach and Spiritual Mentor) from the Stillpoint School. Other endorsements, licenses, and certifications are: Instructor of Record-Psychology, Santa Barbara Community College; Biofeedback Certification Institute of America; State Licensed Professional Counselor (TX); Counseling-elementary/secondary/special education/vocational—along with Educational Diagnostician; and Teaching Credentials-elementary/special education (TX,NM,CA).
Her specialty areas include child development, behavioral therapy and gestalt Therapy. Expertise gleaned from educational and psychological positions as teacher, child advocate and liaison, counselor, psychodiagnostic assessor, staff therapist, and administrator have enabled Judith to be a Consultant to school districts and private practices in Texas, New Mexico, and California.
Holding the belief that children are the future of the world, Judith’s passion is to develop self-empowerment within children. Wit that in mind, she originated two award winning programs: “San Antonio ISD Pre-Vocation/ On-Campus Jobs for Emotionally Disturbed and Mentally Challenged Students” and her “Hypnosis and Biofeedback To Assist the Education and Empowerment of Students with Learning Disabilities.” Her current innovations include developing a program for children of women with breast cancer which encompasses Meredith’s Stillpoint Model; and a series that incorporates the talents of Judith and Sara Miller, CIH, entitled "Dancing with Writing," which integrates materials from writing, psychological, and spiritual viewpoints to help individuals move through inner challenges to their creative expression.
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West Coast Grad Coordinators
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| Cheryl Cole, BA, MS, CIH Cheryl received a BA from the University of Colorado and graduated with a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Santa Barbara, CA. After completing her Bachelor’s program, she moved to Germany to work for the U.S. Department of the Army as a Service Club Program Director in Bavaria. On returning to the States, while employed by Edmonds Community College in the Seattle area, she counseled, taught and wrote and implemented grants for single-parent women and displaced homemakers assisting them to return to school. She later became the Director of Women’s Programs at the college.
In 1997 she suffered a stroke and retired, and was subsequently diagnosed with ovarian cancer. It was then that she was introduced to Meredith’s work, but it took an additional bout with cancer—breast—for her to recognize the critical necessity of focusing intensely on the energetic influences (memories, attitudes, and beliefs) behind her illness. She did this through Meredith’s “Women Moving through Breast Cancer” program and eventually attended the Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing, graduating as a CIH in 2006.
Artistically oriented, Cheryl had her own dancing school from age 15-22 and later developed a hand-painted tile business with clients in New York, Arizona, and California. Today, she expresses her creativity by working with people through her healing practice.
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Sara Miller, MLS, MEd, MFA in Writing, CIH
Sara received her BA in History from Kalamazoo (MI) College, MLS from Columbia University, MEd from Bank Street College (NY) and MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. She was Director of Children’s Services in the White Plains (NY) Public Library for many years, combining that with teaching children’s and young adult literature and storytelling in several graduate programs in NY.
During those years she began studying Shamanic Healing and Medicine for the Earth journeywork.
Aftert moving to New Hampshire, Sara created a new life as a freelance writer, instructor in Shamanic Journeywork, Hospice volunteer and Reiki practitioner. In 2006, she graduated from the Stillpoint Program and is now weaving her CIH training into her healing practice and teaching.
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Adjunct Faculty
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| Arthur Strock, PhD, LCSW, CIH Arthur is school psychologist and licensed clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice in Hackettstown, NJ. As an assistant professor of psychology, he has taught at Bloomfield College and the County College of Morris. He is a founding charter member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and gives dream interpretation seminars to mental health professionals and the general public.
Arthur has a diplomate in clinical social work, is certified in transpersonal hypnotherapy, and is a continuing education provider for NASW-NJ. He received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia Pacific University, training in school psychology from Utah State University, an MSW in clinical social work from Rutgers University. Arthur completed the Stillpoint Program in June 2003.
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