Pam’s quest for truth has had a dramatic positive impact on her curiosity of life and catapulted her Spiritual Awakening; thus aligning her more fully with who she is and what she came here to do. Pam is a gifted and uniquely-qualified Mentor, Alchemist and Channel.  She attracts both Master healers and those who are just embarking on their spiritual journeys into her embrace. Her role as channel is the central point of her personal evolution and foundation for assisting others. The Archangels and Ascended Masters are her guides as she continues to expand and evolve both personally and in her role as a way shower. Pam serves a worldwide clientele in releasing habits and limiting beliefs awaken spiritual gifts and much more, both in private sessions or courses such as Creating Your Personal Power Field.  Sessions and courses can be in person, over the phone and internet.

In my position, I'm very fortunate to get to wear many hats at PSI as I oversee the association's marketing, communications and educational campaigns and programs. This gives me a chance to work closely with fellow PSI staffers, our wonderful members, PSI partners and sponsors and the media on various projects, including the PSI Certificate Program, Professional Pet Sitters Week, Take Your Dog To Work Day®, Hungry Bowl, Pet Sitter of the Year, the Get a Real Pet Sitter® and more. I'm passionate about educating pet sitters (through our magazine, e-Newsletter, blog, website, social media and most recently PSI's latest book, The Professional Pet Sitter's Startup Guide) and about educating pet owners on the importance of using professional pet sitters (through media announcements, press releases, advertisements and articles, etc.) I also manage PSI's social media accounts and plan the annual Pet Sitter World Educational Conference & Expo.

Living in Harmony with Nature and our Planet

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream 

Cher Tanner advocates for Pachamama Alliance 

Bio:

Since retiring from real estate and the homebuilding industry, Cher Tanner has thrust herself into a “Heart and Soul” Sojourn, pursuing meaningful experiences that juice the capillaries of her mind, body, spirit and the planet.  

Most recently, Cher devotes her time, effort and energy to being a Community Coordinator for the Pachamama Alliance Tampa Bay (PATB) community.  Pachamama Alliance (PA), headquartered in San Francisco, was inspired by a 1995 ‘call’ from an intact, indigenous group in the Amazon that reached out to the modern world requesting they change their lifestyles and activities that were decimating their environment and the pristine world they had harmoniously lived in for centuries. The co-founders of PA responded to that call.

As a result of their visit, the group returned and took the request seriously. The Pachamama Alliance was formed and they developed a strategy to help transform the modern world in the form of a Symposium, called “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream.” Today, it is being delivered on five continents, in eighty-one countries, and has been translated into sixteen languages & counting!  Quite an accomplishment!

In 2010 Cher was trained as a facilitator for the “Awakening the Dream, Changing the Dream Symposium.” Through that experience a mystical net captured her awaiting the perfect time to release her to her authentic destiny.  That came after taking the “Game Changer Intensive,” which is part of PA’s “Up to Us Engagement Pathway,” she now declares herself an “Evolutionary Pro-Activist.”  This revelation led her to accept “her call” which was to focus on broadening and building the membership of the PATB community and by arranging and delivering Symposiums throughout the Tampa Bay area and around Florida with the purpose of “bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling & socially just human presence on this planet.”  

With a Summa Cum Laude Baccalaureate degree in Psychology & graduate work in Counseling, Cher was a natural to move into the dynamic field of Personal Life Coaching. Her moniker “The GPS to Happiness” evolved out of this previous incarnation when trained as an Authentic Happiness Coach by the renowned psychologist and Fox Leadership professor at the University of Pennsylvania Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.  She was also trained through Coachville, Coach U, and became a Relationship Coach through the Relationship Coaching Institute and had membership in the International Association of Coaches.

Her business, Fast Track Happiness Coaching, offered individual & group coaching around signature programs she developed including "Five Steps to Get You GPS on the Fast Track to Happiness," and "Single, Over 50, but Not Over Love!"

She lives with her sweetheart of 24 years in a sparkling waterfront home on Indian Rocks Beach, FL. When time permits, she loves to travel, “tread the boards” as a stage actor and performance artist, is a writer and columnist, and spent the last three years as a docent at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo educating guests about the potential of tremendous species extinction due to human activity.  

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                    The Pachamama Alliance Is Coming to Florida!

                        Meet Jason Bayles and Rogér Knoren

           from  Pachamama Alliance's San Francisco Headquarters

                               Game-Changing Community Day

                                         “Reaching Out”

                                   Sunday, July 17, 2016

                                          1:30 – 5:30 PM

                                    1:00 Registration

                               Faith United Church of Christ

                                     1650 Pinehurst Road

                                       Dunedin FL 33698

                                            Love Offering

Given the current state of Planet Earth, it is clearer than ever that it will take collective grassroots actions to affect significant change.    

To that end ..

Let’s expand our connections both geographically and across political, business, nonprofits, and interfaith action groups. We'll come together, learn from each other, hone our leadership skills, and work more collaboratively.

• MEET, greet and acknowledge each other and our unique actions

• LEARN about collective leadership and gain cutting-edge “Co-Active Leadership” training.

• FIND others regionally and statewide who share common intentions

• EXPLORE conscious, collaborative actions with measured outcomes

• CELEBRATE the possibilities of shared support, FUN, and wisdom

• IMAGINE how you might share your gifts and ‘pay it forward’ to …

Bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just

human presence on the planet. ~ Pachamama Alliance’s Purpose

    REVEREND CHRISTOPHER ANTAL was born in New York and raised together with his sister Jill by their parents, Richard and Susan, on the southern coast of Maine. He attended public schools and received no formal religious education, but compassion and hospitality were family values instilled at a young age. His mom also taught him, "if you can't say something nice don't say it at all," but that was one lesson that never took root.

    Chris left Maine at the age of eighteen to enroll in a posh private art school in Rhode Island, but dropped out after two years, preferring instead a life of poverty and spiritual discipline within the Unification Church. It was in that community where Chris met and married his life partner, Mitsuko Ishikawa. A few significant life events led him to discern a call to ministry and reconsider his religious affiliation, so he returned to school in New York and got a couple of degrees that helped him navigate the way ahead.

    After graduating seminary, Chris followed his heart to Unitarian Universalism and found the community a good fit. So, at the age of thirty-five, he decided to pursue a career as an ordained minister. Chris made it through the hoops of the Unitarian Universalist Association and they actually granted him ministerial fellowship. He was ordained at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany a few months later.

    Since then, Rev. Chris has served the congregation at Rock Tavern, sans a stint as a military chaplain in Afghanistan which came to an abrupt end when the Army officially reprimanded and summarily banished him for preaching a "politically inflammatory" sermon. Undeterred, Rev. Chris kindles fires at Rock Tavern the first and fourth Sundays. He and Mitsuko live with their five children in the Hudson Valley.

    Rev. Antal’s Resignation Letter To President Obama

    (Editor’s Note: Rev. Antal’s resignation letter to President Obama follows.  Please also see, the President’s response to Rev. Antal’s letter him urging him to reject plans to produce the new air-dropped nuclear cruise missile.)

    April 12, 2016

    MEMORANDUM FOR Commander in Chief, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania

    Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500                                                                   '

    THRU U.S. Army Human Resources Command, ATTN: AHRC-OPL-P, 1600 Spearhead Division Ave, Ft Knox, KY 40122

    SUBJECT: Resignation in Protest

    Dear Mr. President:

      I hereby resign my commission as an Officer in the United States Army.

       I resign because I refuse to support U.S. armed drone policy. The Executive Branch continues to claim the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, at any time, for secret reasons, based on secret evidence, in a secret process, undertaken by unidentified officials. I refuse to support this policy of unaccountable killing.

       I resign because I refuse to support U.S. nuclear weapon policy. The Executive Branch continues to invest billions of dollars into nuclear weapons, which threaten the existence of humankind and the earth. I refuse to support this policy of terror and mutually assured destruction.

        I resign because I refuse to support U.S. policy of preventive war, permanent military supremacy, and global power projection. The Executive Branch continues to claim extraconstitutional authority and impunity from international law. I refuse to support this policy of imperial overstretch.

       I resign because I refuse to serve as an empire chaplain. I cannot reconcile these policies with either my sworn duty to protect and defend America and our constitutional democracy, or my covenantal commitment to the core principles of my religious faith.

       These principles include: justice, equity and compassion in human relations; a free and responsible search for truth; and the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

    Signed

    Christopher John Antal

    My View: In drone warfare we ought not trust

    (This is a My View column written by Rev. Chris and published in the Times Herald Record)

    By Rev. Chris J. Antal

    Less than a month after I deployed to Afghanistan, on Oct. 24, 2012, a grandmother who lived over the hill from our base camp was out gathering okra in a field when she was killed by a U.S. drone strike.

    Or was she?

    Official sources claimed they killed "militants" that day; I didn't see her, or anyone else, die. All I saw were the drones, taking off, landing, and circling around. I did not even hear the explosion.

    Months later I watched the testimony of 13-year-old Zubair Rehman, describing how he saw his grandmother blown to bits by two hellfire missiles on the day in question, asking his American audience: "Why?"

    They didn't have an answer.

    While deployed, I concluded our drone strikes disproportionately kill innocent people. As a military chaplain, I preached a sermon questioning the morality of such warfare. After my commander read it, he said "the message does not support the mission" and had me investigated, officially reprimanded and released from active duty for "retraining."

    The legal scholar and former Obama administration official Rosa Brooks spoke about the so-called Global War on Terror, "We have the Executive Branch making a claim it has the right to kill anyone anywhere on earth at any time for secret reasons based on secret evidence in a secret process undertaken by unidentified officials." In short, I do not know what mission I should be retrained to support – the very nature of that mission is secret. When I joined the Army, I did not swear an oath to defend secret and unaccountable killing. I took an oath to defend the Constitution – a set of laws that, I believe, this type of warfare significantly undermines.

    From the perspective of both religious wisdom and military values, drone warfare, as conducted by the United States today, is a betrayal of what is right. My faith affirms the inherent worth and dignity of all people, everywhere. I believe Americans who share that affirmation have a responsibility to advocate for a U.S. foreign policy that reflects our regard for human dignity. Military leadership also has a responsibility to advocate for a method of war-fighting consistent with military values like respect, integrity, and personal courage. Too often, I worry, our program of drone warfare falls short of these ideals.

    Two years after coming home, I finally got retrained. It came at the nation's first Interfaith Conference on Drone Warfare that was held at Princeton Theological Seminary in late January. More than 100 faith leaders gathered from across the country united in our moral anguish about drone warfare. I believe the only moral justification for killing is to protect the innocent from certain harm. Killing people we suspect might possibly harm us at some point in the unspecified future can never be morally justified. I fear what has been called "The Moral Hazard of Drones" - they make killing too easy; and just because we can, does not mean we ought.

    Out of the Princeton Conference came a call to action: We must call on the administration to immediately halt lethal drone strikes and be transparent and accountable for past harm; we must call on Congress to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that serves as drone warfare's legal justification.

    We owe this to Zubair, and the thousands like him. We owe this to our service members who yearn to fight justly. We owe this to the many veterans like myself living in moral pain. Immediately halting lethal drone strikes would be the first step in healing moral injury, reclaiming national honor, and restoring the soul of America.

    The Rev. Chris J. Antal is a minister at Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern.

James Duignam is a Health Coach, Reiki and BKP Kinesiology practitioner, who helps people take a holistic approach to their health, by supporting their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs. James is the author the books, Soular Return, Soulutions for Body, Mind and Soul, and, Why Meditation Works: A Glimpse Inside Your Mind and Brain, and writes a monthly newsletter on health and wellness, to inspire and empower people to take responsibility for their health and well-being.

CARLTON WILBORN

Carlton Wilborn is a Globally Respected Life Coach and Award-Winning Author/Performer & Producer with over 20 years of film, television and stage experience, PLUS 10 years of acclaimed activity as a Personal Development teacher. He began his career as a principle dancer with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and as the lead dancer with Madonna on the The Blond Ambition and Girlie Show tours. Carlton brings his artistic passion and dancer’s discipline to his CALLING of Empowerment Teaching, which, has enabled him to contribute his knowledge and wisdom to churches, non-for-profit organizations and a cross-section of individuals throughout North America and Internationally. His work as a private coach, workshop facilitator and event speaker is supported by a multitude of self-awareness philosophies he has cultivated over the years; including Religious Science Practice, the Kabbalah, the Bible, the 12 Step Sobriety Program and Meditation. The key principles that support his Empowerment Movement are Authenticity, Integrity, Forgiveness, Faith and Gratitude.

Canadian-born pianist and composer Carl Bray, is a recent graduate of the of the film scoring program at UCLA. Based in Los Angeles, California he is working as a composer and producer in various forms of media as well as continuing to perform as a concert pianist. He also performs alongside production partner and DJ Brandon Ernst in their project Rick Francis, which will be appearing on the show in the coming weeks!