Founder & Board

Founder

Jane Norton founded Eartheal because of her love for the natural world and a desire to engage others in experiencing its' magnificence, in understanding our interdependence with nature and the impacts of our choices on it, and in making choices and taking actions that are beneficial and regenerative. The name Eartheal signifies a reciprocal healing interaction between humans and nature -when we engage in restorative acts for the Earth, we are healed as well.

Jane is a designer, group facilitator, and catalyst for personal and cultural transformation. In addition to founding and serving as Chief Visionary Officer for Eartheal (www.eartheal.org), she has a consulting firm, Re-Sourcing Natural Solutions, (www.resourcingthefuture.com under construction) which offers coaching, consulting, and seminars for creating sustainable organizations and communities. Jane developed a model, called Re-Sourcing, that combines natural laws, spiritual principles, and a co-creative visioning/manifestation process. She has 15 years experience working with a variety of corporate, educational, non-profit and governmental organizations offering seminars, coaching, and consulting in creativity, team building, leadership, and sustainable business development. As an adjunct faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership, she co-created the Leadership for a Sustainable World research project.

Jane has a B.S. in Interior Design, and a Master's in Community Design/ Landscape Architecture. She has been an active board member of many community organizations serving women, healing, peace making, the arts and environmental education. A deep connection to nature and being a mother and grandmother are the experiences that fuel her passion for making the world a place that 'nurtures and sustains all life now and for future generations'.

Board

Ken Krebs became involved with Eartheal because of an interest in supporting awareness and enjoyment of the natural environment. From a childhood romping around in the southern woods surrounding Winston-Salem, to graduating high school in upstate New York, to settling in the Research Trinagle Park are, Ken has enjoyed much of his free time exploring the outdoor natural environment in a number of ways. He brings to Eartheal this love of the environment and a desire to help Eartheal further their mission of encouraging healthier, sustainable lifestyles more connected with and in celebration of nature.

Ken is an analytical chemist with a federal agency dedicated to protecting the environment. Through his work he has gained a professional appreciation of our impact, as a society, on the environment. When not at work, he is often volunteering for various civic organizations promoting political and environmental awareness. Hobbies such as beekeeping and astonomy also keep him in close contact with the natural environment.

Mieke Rose assists others with their emotional and spiritual explorations through coaching, counseling and classes. Her approach is rooted in the healing powers of meditation, nature and being present to the moment. She agrees with Richard Louv that many of us suffer from 'Nature Deficit Disorder', defined as "the cumulative effect of withdrawing nature from our experience." Reconnecting with nature and finding the interface with our inner landscape and essence is what gives her passion and direction in her work.

Mieke has 30 years experience in counseling and has a background in psychology, Vipassana, several energy healing modalities and eco-theraphy. She is co-creator and caretaker of Emergo, a small healing center near Chapel Hill, NC where, among other things, she shows weekly videos of Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now) for the public. The lands around Emergo were bought by Mieke and her husband, with several of their neighbors, safeguarding 100+ acres as a nature preserve.

Carolee Carlson graduated from The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in Advertising and Marketing, with special interest in Business. Earning a second degree in French studies, she worked in Paris, afterwards returning to the States to broaden her advertising skills at the Miami Ad School of Miami, Florida. After working for Raleigh ad agencies, she enjoyed working as a freelance brand strategist and account planner for small businesses. Honored to be working as a coach, she brings her marketing skills to Inspire, Inc. in order to support businesses and other coaches in sharing their purposes and passion with the world. Her other volunteer contributions include being a Board member of the Carrboro Greenspace and on the Education Committee of Sustainable North Carolina.

Sue Anne Solem has spent most of her life teaching elementary school, being in plays, singing in choruses, choreographing and dancing, doing political action work for non-profits, hiking and camping all over the country, being a health food fanatic, and taking just about every kind of workshop and seminar in the areas of the natural sciences and spirituality. She is retired from teaching, but still teaching as much as she can, currently as an environmental educator for both Chestnut Ridge and Agape Camp and Conference Centers, doing the two things she loves the most: teaching and being outdoors. Sue Anne is a docent at Duke Gardens, and learning to be one at NC Botanical Gardens. She sings with a women's vocal group called Jewelsong, and facilitates drumming events for children and parents with Music Explorium. Sue Anne is working on her N.C. Environmental Education certification, so she's taking lots of science workshops with various state agencies and museums, and travels for pleasure and learning about the environment. Last summer she went to Brazil to learn about the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, and this january, saw over 80,000 snow geese and many thousands of tundra swans at Pungo Lake, NC, as part of this pursuit.

Eartheal is a member organization of the North Carolina Conservation Network (www.ncconnet.org), and of the U.S Partnership, a program of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org)