PeerSpirit, Inc.
Building communities of reflection, adventure & purpose

PeerSpirit is an educational company that offers clients a unique blend of compassionate leadership, creative innovation and pragmatic skills. Whether leading seminars indoors or in wilderness, PeerSpirit colleagues are masters at facilitating significant conversations among people in businesses, education, non-profit organizations, and personal groups.

The partners bring decades of experience in group facilitation, teaching, speaking, writing, and leadership skills to this work.

PeerSpirit Corporate & Educational Clients

• American Society of Association Executives Foundation, October 2001
• From the Four Directions global leadership initiative in partnership with Berkana Institute: training in US, Europe and Africa: 2000- ongoing
• State Department of Health, Child Nutrition Services; October 2000 - ongoing
• Royal Roads University, MALT program, Victoria, BC, June 1999- July 2001
• University of North Carolina Greensboro, Race & Gender Institute 2000-ongoing
• Universities: developing council-based curricula, faculty/student communication, building learning communities and cohort groups
• Health care corporations: hospital administration, internal education, hospice care; nursing executives; provider teamwork, administration of neighborhood clinics, adult group home care staff and clients
• Churches and religious administrative offices; congregational communication, committee and organizational change
• Provincial government housing administration
• Federal Corrections administrative staff and warden/in-mate dialogue
• Industrial manufacturing: project teams
• Software development: staff and project teams
• Community non-profit board facilitation

Selected Conferences:

PeerSpirit

• Skagit Valley College, Community Circles, September 2001
• Northwest Regional Conference of Unity Ministers, Oregon: April 2001
• Center for Nursing Leadership, Salt Lake City UT, June 1999 - Sept. 2000
• Alaska Women's Network, Homer, AK, September 1999
• Fetzer Institute, Spiritual and Social Dynamics of Y2K, Kalamazoo, MI February 1999;
• Spirit in the Workplace, Oakland, CA, June 1997; and Orcas Is.,WA August 1998
• University of Alberta, Edmonton, "Calling the Circle, a Day in New Community," January & October 1996
• TASH (The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps) Regional Conference, Ellensburg, WA, "Calling the Circle, spirit centered, peer led, self-management," April 1996
• Hollyhock Farm, Retreat Centre, Cortes Island, BC "Women and the Planet, Returning the Gift" 1994-95-96
• Women of Wisdom Conference, Seattle, WA "Calling the Circle," 1995, 1999, 2000

Christina Baldwin

• Creative Health Care Management, Minneapolis, MN June 2000
• Women in Lucent Leadership, Lucent Technology, Boston, MA April 2000
• Parish Nurse Network, Tucson, AZ February 2000,
• Southwest Women’s Spirituality Network, February 1999,
• To Comfort Always, Palliative Care Conference, Minneapolis, MN "Calling the Circle in Palliative Care" December 1995
• Interface Learning Center, Cambridge, MA, "Journal writing as a Spiritual Quest," 1992-93; "The Self as the Source of the Story," 1994; "Calling the Circle," 1995
• Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, "Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest," 1991-93
• Split Rock Arts Program, University of MN, Duluth, MN "The Self as the Source of the Story," 1986-95

Ann Linnea

• Alaska Region of the National Park Service, conference keynote presenter and panelist, "Partnering with Citizens in the 21st Century" December 2001
• University of Minnesota, conference keynote "The Bonds between Women and Water" Sept. 2000
• Northwest Regional Writers Conference, October 1998
• University of Wisconsin, Convocation: Making Passionate Choices with Our Lives, September 1996
• Association for Experiential Education, Western Division Conference, keynote, September 1996,
• Wintermoon, Brimson, MN "Sea Kayaking on Lake Superior," 1993-96, 2000
• Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, Finland, MN "Women and the Planet, Returning the Gift," 1992-93, "Family Sense of Wonder Weekends," 1982-92

Books Authored by:

Christina Baldwin

Seven Whispers, Listening to the Voice of Spirit (New World Library, 2/2002)
Calling the Circle, the First and Future Culture (Bantam, 1998)
Life’s Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest (Bantam, 1990)
One to One, Self-Understanding through Journal Writing (M. Evans, 1977, rev. 1991)

Ann Linnea

Deep Water Passage–A Spiritual Journey at Mid-life (Little, Brown & Co. 1995/Pocketbooks 1997)
Teaching Kids to Love the Earth (Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1991)

Education:

Christina Baldwin

1964 Wayzata High School, Wayzata, MN valedictorian
1968 Macalester College, St. Paul, MN B.A. cum laude, English
1986 Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, CA M.S. Psychology

Ann Linnea

1967 Austin High School, Austin, MN valedictorian
1971 Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, B.S. biology with honors and distinction
1972 University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, M.A.T. with EPDA fellow