FOUNDER

Brenda Morgan, PhD

During the past 35 years, Brenda has served as a university professor, director of human services personnel and volunteers, private therapist, consultant and public speaker and trainer for personnel in various aspects of society, as well as being involved with various grant programs for staff and services to clientele. During the past 15-20 years she has served as a meditation teacher and mentor. All of her life work has focused upon relationships: to the Earth, to each other and to Life itself.

As the Founder of For Generations To Come, a culmination of her desire to serve humanity and to give back to the Earth is being realized. What will be shared in such an environmentally-honored and humanly-ignited space will catalyze others of any age, race or condition to enter the world as a participant in its healing on many levels: from the personal to the local community, the nation and worldwide. How they do so will depend upon their unique interests and creativity. This is a living dream, and is already being actualized by the interest of the 70 or so people who have shown the desire and energy, creativity and maturity, to bring such a space to southeast Michigan. They originally came together through the exploration of meditation as a way to deepen their ability to feel, understand and serve the world through their unique expression within it. Brenda has been actively helping them with the meditative process over the past 15 years.

For further information on Brenda Morgan:
www.movedbythelight.com

Avery Cleary

Avery Cleary is the Executive Director of Hooked On Nature, non-profit that provides inspiration, resource materials, training and workshops for adults who wish to help children develop loving relationships with the Earth, each other and All That Is. The idea for Hooked On Nature grew out of her work with the mayor's office and police department in Rutland, Vermont. She currently coordinates Hooked On Nature's national activities from her home in Walnut Creek, CA. Avery has a background in education, intuitive management, and community organizing. Her passion for and work with children and nature provides an avenue for her to deepen her understanding of the human condition, serve the larger community of life, and continue her personal spiritual evolution. 

Jim Dreyer

Jim is a business owner/craftsman involved in the restoration and preservation of furniture and architectural woodwork for more than 30 years. His work is in homes, offices and public facilities throughout southeastern Michigan, such as the US Courthouse in Detroit, the Frank Lloyd Wright home and the offices/facilities at Dominos Farms in Ann Arbor, MI. He has also taught classes and workshops, sharing his experiences to help others develop their relationship to this craft.
This love of restoration work also carries over into the areas of community, the Earth, personal relationships and life. Jim is passionate about working and playing in association with others who are interested in beautifying the Earth and growing together to help restore our bond with it.
Recently, Jim has been serving as an advisory board member for Hooked On Nature (www.hookedonnature.com), a California-based non-profit focused on serving adults and children in developing their relationship with the Earth. He is also involved in the start-up of “Nature Circles” in Michigan, which is an offshoot of Hooked On Nature.

Chairperson, Financial Officer
Tom Egan, B.S.M.E. M. Ed.

Tom has 10 years professional work experience in the auto industry as a program and account manager for General Motors Cadillac car platforms. Tom has a reputation for completing his design to launch assignments on time and under budget. His programs have received positive recognition and are frequently used as the model programs when training newer employees. Tom has also completed a Masters degree in Counseling and works privately with individuals and groups, with people interested in growth personally, professionally and spiritually. Tom has competed nationally in springboard and platform diving, and is the 1992 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) diving champion.

Susan Fancy

Susan's background includes 12 years of engineering and program management work on Ford electric and fuel cell electric vehicles (both production and demonstration programs), where she facilitated teams to birth new technology within time, budget, and reliability targets. In addition to vehicle systems under her guidance performing well, she catalyzed relationship and connected communications in her own teams and across departments, which helped to build strength for the whole organization. Her approach is intuitive-based. While at the University of Michigan in 1990, she also managed a large team to build and race a solar-powered vehicle (this included $2.4M of fundraising done by students!). The team won the national championship, and placed third in the world event including honors as the top student team. Susan now owns an architectural/art glass studio, and offers classes and personal session in transformation.

Darla Getschman

Darla brings a wealth of experience for precise, detail-oriented and intuitive organization. With an academic background in accounting and business, Darla’s career was set in motion while working with the Chuck Muer Corporation, which owned a variety of highly successful Michigan restaurants. With a passion for business and all of its facets, Darla was instrumental in opening and developing a popular Plymouth retail and wholesale confectionery business. Darla’s work ultimately involved long term strategic planning, daily financial and operational management, hands-on production, and sales. Since selling the confectionery business in 2001, Darla has been expanding her skills while working with and consulting for a variety of businesses in the administrative and financial areas.
A beautiful dimension for her, more recently, has been helping people move into a loving relationship with their bodies through “Nia Technique.” In 2007 Darla began teaching Aquatic fitness classes for Senior and Special Populations and “Ai Chi”, referred to as, “A Symphony for the Body”, where body, breath, flowing movement and music all come alive within the sacred element of water.

Larry Gilbert

Larry is a registered professional engineer working in the position of Principal Engineer and Associate for the consulting firm of NTH Consultants, Ltd. who specializes in infrastructure engineering and environmental sciences. Larry has over 35 years of experience in the design and construction and of water resources control projects and related environmental improvements. He has served in the past on the Board of Directors in numerous professional and academic organizations representing his profession. His evolving interest in issues relating to humanity and the earth itself are providing a natural connection to For Generations To Come and all that is envisioned for the future.

Lana Jerome

Lana is a Michigan Conservation Steward, Master Gardener and Certified Tour Professional. She brings her life long passion for nature and the environment to her daily activities as a Master Gardener through her business, Golden Earth Garden, LLC. As a conservation steward, she shares her awe of this Earth with adults and children. Her love of nature is also being expressed through her work in watercolor and pastel. Lana has had extensive sales and service experience while working for the Metropolitan Detroit Convention & Visitor's Bureau. While with the MDCVB, she was also involved with the hosting of major events such as the GOP National Convention, Super Bowl and World Cup Soccer. With this background, Lana brings her natural organizational and networking gifts to the Center.

Daniel Little

Daniel Little is a small business owner and entrepreneur with nearly a decade of experience starting and operating Heart & Soul Ecological Landscaping & Natural Building. He has 25 years of experience with construction and is passionate about the use of local, natural materials in building, and the integration of the built and natural environments. He has also trained and worked extensively in experiential education, team-building, wilderness leadership, and is a trainer and volunteer for the national nonprofit movement, Hooked on Nature. His life has been an exploration of the human relationship to the Earth. In various ways he has sought to discover how our beautiful planet can be a resource for our healing and growth, and how our evolution as individuals, as a species brings us into a more whole relationship to the Earth, and All That Is.  

Laura Remy

At 27 years of age, Laura immigrated to the United States in 1983 from Buenos Aries, Argentina. She owned and operated a successful food business and distributorship for over 8 years, designing and producing cookies. She understood that the basis for a successful business was not just the product itself, but also relationships and communication with others. As a bi-lingual social caseworker in the United States for 15 years, she served people who were experiencing severe distress in their lives. Such work raised all kinds of questions for her regarding social, economic and religious choices that we make: from Vietnam veterans with PTSD to those with severe drug addictions, issues with homelessness, or terminal AIDS cases. Due to the intense stress level in such a job, she developed the ability to find something positive, day by day, to counterbalance working with human suffering at such extreme levels. These experiences helped her to develop a profound understanding that the human impulse for living and healing resides deep in our beings, and can be accessed no matter what is happening around us. While still in Argentina, Laura performed and taught dance for 9 years. The dance training was particularly demanding mentally, physically and spiritually, especially as she was an adult and mother when she started! However, the constant search for the elusive piece of Laura’s soul which wished to manifest itself through dance and movement ended when she entered training in this area, as she was able to blend her heart’s expression with her body’s expression. This ignited the awareness that there is a critical need to express through the body, to be grounded and feeling the Earth through one’s form, and is as important as breathing or eating if one wishes to fully engage life.

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