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TeachersWith over 20 years of experience as a preschool teacher in Head Start, High/Scope, Montessori and Reggio Emilia-based programs, and as a private piano and music and movement instructor, school-age summer day camp counselor and K-4 distance learning educator (with Laurel Springs School), Susan brings a rich and varied background in education to the Sanctuary School program. A graduate of Yale University with a degree in German and Music, she is also the founder of the Delphi Kids Club, a club for children and their families focusing on partnership with the earth and respect for all life. Her love of nature and belief that we are all connected provide the foundation for her work with the Sanctuary School. Susan lives in Grants Pass, Oregon, where she enjoys reading, hiking, photography, doing web design and pursuing spiritual studies. She shares her home with a great dane mix and two cats. |
 Susan Hunt |
| Brenda Milota feels that the answer to all the world's problems is "just love". It all starts with us. All of us have a gift that we brought into this life. One of the purposes of education is to enable us to remember this gift so that we can, in turn, give it. Brenda lives in Ojai, California with her husband, Robert. She is a native Californian and loves to walk in nature and feel her peace. Brenda is an administrator at Laurel Springs School and is also a massage and Reiki practitioner. She actively pursues knowledge in herbs, flower essences, essential oils and alternative education. |
 Brenda Milota |
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 Robert Milota |
Robert Milota is currently a part-time teacher
for Laurel Springs School, located in Ojai, California. He has
taught in private schools and served as a teacher for a home
schooling collective in Rhode Island. Robert received his B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of San Diego and pursued doctorate work at Clark University. Although World History was his major, he has a lively interest in and has avidly studied Native American History, Ancient History, Anatomy and Alternative Medicine, Marine Biology and Earth Science. He loves to watch historically-based movies and laugh or moan at the often gross inaccuracies done in the name of entertainment. Recently Robert received his Doctorate from the Maharishi European Research University for The Science and Technology of World Peace.Robert has been a teacher of meditation for 35 years and is now the Director for the Ventura chapter of the Global Country of World Peace. This non political foundation presents proven solutions to help bring about permanent world peace such as transcendental meditation and other programs. |
| When he is not buried in a book or teaching meditation, he is surfing (the ocean not the web). Robert loves everything about the ocean and is an active member of Surfrider Foundation which recently won an award for the best non-governmental environmental group. Robert also enjoys being with nature: whether in the forest, mountains or seashore. He has studied nutrition and herbal medicine, yoga, turtles, metaphysics and almost everything! He has been actively involved in the Natural Foods industry as a store owner, sales rep, and herbal company leader. And recently he is trying to learn the guitar...again!Aside from New England and California, Robert has lived and worked in Iowa, New York/New Jersey, Oklahoma, Spain and Italy and has been a frequent visitor to the Caribbean(where he has a very colorful family history). |
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Bibi Small is Founder/Director of Youthvoice Worldwide (YVW), a group dedicated to promoting the right of children and young people, as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to be consulted, and to have their voices valued and listened to by decisionmakers at all levels of decisionmaking. |
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| Projects include participation in the setting up of a Young General Assembly for the United Nations, and facilitating young people's involvement in youth councils/forums, and developing conflict resolution strategies such as in the Northern Ireland Peace Process where young people wrote to Senator George Mitchell about Childrens' Right to Peace. This particular project known as the "Wall of Peace" began during the Clinton Presidency when Hillary Clinton replied to a letter written by these young people asking her for her thoughts on peace, and the project is now inscribed on a stone paver as the "Wall of Peace Belfast UK" forming part of the Celebration Circle in the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas. As well as working in Schools with children who have special needs, Bibi also works with UNICEF where she teaches children and young people about the values of the UNITED NATIONS and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and how by becoming global citizens they can make a big difference in the lives of other children and young people who live in poverty and despair. |
 Patricia Jepsen and Delphi |
Founder and former creative director of The Sanctuary School, Patricia Jepsen's professional background was as an actor, drama coach and director of children's theatre. In 1970 she founded the Center for Creative Arts in Sedona, Arizona. For over 35 years she presented classes and seminars in creative writing, acting, public speaking and inner voice alignment in many parts of the world. With her golden retriever companion Delphi, Pat was the author of Six Lessons with Delphi and Delphi, What Being in Earth Is All About. As president of the Center for International Cooperation (CIC), a non governmental organization (NGO) affiliated with the United Nations, Pat sponsored global workshops and conferences that supported and encouraged the principles upon which The Sanctuary School was founded. Patricia Jepsen made her transition in September 2009. |
