Ned’s formal education is listed below. However, since 2009 he has been facilitating “Transformational Expressive Arts” workshops. This experience has been his continued education as he has applied his skills to the organic flow of leading groups. He has learned to trust the amazing capacity of each individual to discover their own inspired way. He also offers his groups profound safety as he leads them beyond their conditioned ways, to wonderful aha moments, renewed self confidence, and self acceptance.

Ned is a certified transformational leader and facilitator (2010). His certification is through Ken Nelson’s “Powerful Workshops”.  www.powerfulworkshops.com.                

            "As a leader, Ned is dedicated to serving the needs of the group by igniting the collective  energy, and by supporting and sustaining the individual group members in their quest for self-discovery and empowerment. 
            Ned offers a safe space for exploration, by modeling a view and a practice of wholeness and authenticity. With his unique voice and welcoming ways, he invites you to start where you are toward undoing the self-imposed limits that all of us carry, often unknowingly. 
            As a facilitator, Ned offers you powerful tools and skills to take the next steps on your own journey, toward owning your own power, and toward fulfilling your true potential for transformation" - Ken Nelson and Lesli Lang of Powerful Workshops.
 

Ned received his certificate(2011) as an Expressive Arts facilitator from the Expressive Arts Institute at Salve Regina University.  He also holds a BS degree (1978) in Christian Ministry.