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Biography
Connie Fenty has shared her
love of the Earth and passion for peace with thousands of children and adults
alike in her various professional roles.
As a physical education
teacher, she organized numerous school-wide non-competitive
Field Days featuring games that she designed to create respect for the
Earth. She also created a peace
curriculum called "Winning Solutions"to educate young children about
respecting others, managing anger, and solving conflicts. Connie facilitated an annual Peace Week
at her school and trained students to use the "Peace Maze," a labyrinth she
painted on the school playground and used as a tool for solving disputes
peacefully.
As
founder of Your Nature Connection Seminars, Connie designs and facilitates workshops
that remind her participants how time spent in nature can provide healing,
wisdom, serenity, and wholeness.
She has presented her workshops from coast to coast as well as in
Europe. Whether facilitating a
labyrinth walk, a retreat in nature, or leading a tour, Connie's programs are
full of experiential activities and inspiring content.
As
a member of the International Labyrinth Society, Connie has been an annual
presenter at conferences held all over the country. She serves on the Society's Board of Directors. Her originally designed "Common Ground
Labyrinth" was selected by the Labyrinth Society to be included in its entry to
the World Trade Center Memorial Competition.
Connie's
latest endeavors include teaching Yoga and leading European tours. She has developed a form of gentle Yoga
practice that includes reflections on inner, outer, and world peace. Her tour of England's stone circles and
historical sacred sites was praised as being "life-changing."
In all of
Connie's efforts to create peace, her friendliness, compassion, enthusiasm,
knowledge, and organizational abilities are evident. Participants in her teaching venues claim to feel "safe," "nurtured," and "inspired." Recreationally,
Connie
enjoys dancing, snorkeling, reading, bicycling, traveling, and camping.
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