Staff of Creative Healing Connections, Inc.

Sagamore Staff

Our staff of Adirondack artists represents various art forms which encourage participants to express themselves and, through that communication, to find healing and a sense of community.



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Peggy Lynn – Songwriting Workshop- Professional singer and songwriter; Adirondack Woman of the Year; Co-Author, Breaking Trail: Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks; Co-founder and Director of Creative Healing Connections and the Adirondack Arts and Healing Retreat.

Fran Yardley – Storytelling Workshop- Professional storyteller; board member and Newsletter Editor of the Healing Story Alliance; Bereavement Group Facilitator; Co-founder and Director of Creative Healing Connections and the Adirondack Arts and Healing Retreat.

Wanda Burch – Dream Workshop- Author, She Who Dreams, The Healing Power of Dreams; Panel member, Matilda Cuomo’s Breast Cancer Advocacy Day; Site Manager, Johnson Hall State Historic Site, Johnstown NY.

Karen Glass – Art Workshop- Artist, Storyteller, teacher and librarian. Art workshop director for three years at the Unitarian Universalist Family Camp at Kenyon College; Co-founder and facilitator of the Annual Women’s gathering.

Lisa Davis - Music- Musician, therapist and 7 year ovarian cancer survivor;Two Music Bachelor degrees - Crane School of Music, Potsdam State College; Master of Ed in Counseling and Human Development - St. Lawrence University; Currently serves as the Associate Director of Student Counseling Services at Utica College.

Lori Phoebe Benton, LMT – Massage therapy-Nurturing and Therapeutic Massage; trained at The Schere Institute of Natural Healing in Taos, New Mexico 1996-1997; licensed and practicing in New York since 2001.

Kathleen McPhillips – Yoga- Yoga Instructor, Meditation, Reiki Master, Spiritual Director, breast cancer survivor, founder of the Sisterhood of Women and Gratitude Gatherings.

Naj Wikoff – Consultant- Director of the Healing & the Arts Project, C. Everett Koop Institute, Dartmouth College; President of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare; Co-founder of Adirondack Arts and Healing Retreat.

At this retreat, you don’t treat us like a disease. You treat us like human beings.


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