Becca Perry participated in Naka-Ima as a student 7 years ago. 4 years later, inspired by the love and openness she experienced at her first Summer Camp, Becca returned to Naka-Ima as a regular assistant. She moved to Lost Valley, where she lived for over a year, and completed teacher training. She started teaching Naka-Ima (now called Heart of Now) a year ago. At present, she lives in Eugene, at Duma' community, with her two kids, her partner, and her kids' father. She has been part of the Summer Camp organizing team for the past 4 years.

Wally Phillips, MA (Psychology) has been involved with the Human Awareness Institute (HAI) since 1991. Floored by his personal growth experiences with HAI, he went on to co-create the Assistants Program in 1994 and developed the training program still in use today. He has lead workshops in emotional release, somatic awareness and community building for the past ten years and deeply appreciates the power of group work and intentional, conscious living.

Alan Seid is a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication, and certified in Permaculture Design. He is a student of sustainability tools and practices, inner and outer, individual and collective, and establishing a skills learning center on 25 acres near Bellingham, Washington with his wife Tricia King. They have a private practice, offer trainings, consulting, and mediation for couples and organizations. They strive, as early as possible in a program, to get people practicing the process on real situations in their lives, where they've seen that people experience the power of the process the most.

Melanie Kundert, one of the original members of the Rogue Valley Playback Troupe, has trained new members and co-facilitated previous Playback workshops. In addition, she has trained at the Dell Arte School for Physical Theatre, and in the Theatre of the Oppressed and Rainbow of Desire, (interactive social awareness theatre forms based on the work of August Boal). She is passionate for Playback and how it supports building and celebration of community.

Marnia Robinson left her business career in 1990 to learn how ancient sacred-sex prescriptions heal the current widespread disharmony in intimate relationships. Her husband Gary Wilson, who collaborated on her book, has contributed much insight to this effort. He is a human sciences instructor who found himself investigating the physiology of sex, mating, and recovery after healing from a long-term addiction and chronic depression using the practice she will address in her talk. Sign-up for their free monthly newsletter and read an excerpt from Peace Between the Sheets on their website.

Leanna Wolfe, Ph.D. is a social anthropologist and a sexologist specializing in the dynamics of multiple partner sexuality. She did her doctoral research on Jealousy and Transformation in Polyamorous Relationships. Leanna has been a professor of anthropology for upwards of 20 years, creating specialized courses including Gender, Sex & Culture and Magic, Religion & Witchcraft. Shes conducted research on traditional polygamy in East Africa and Papua New Guinea as well as on swinging and polyamory in the United States. Her research findings have been presented to many organizations including: The American Anthropological Association, Lifestyles, Loving More, Building Bridges, World Congress of Sexology and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She has been featured widely on TV, radio, and in print and is the author of numerous articles on polyamory including Adding a Co-Wife and When One Lover is Not Enough as well as the critically acclaimed book, Women Who May Never Marry. For more details, see her website.

Teri D. Ciacchi, MSW, is a Performance Poet, Teacher, Counselor, Artist, Writer, Pleasure Activist, Temple Priestess and one hell of a good time! She has been a member of the Pacific Northwest sex-positive communities since 1993, and is known for her leadership in creating sex-positive culture and peer counseling networks. She prefers to provide counseling and education to members of alternative communities who may not otherwise receive fair, intelligent and compassionate services. Teri is the Creatrix of the TerraFire Academy of Aphrodisiacal Living, and considers this academy to be the performance art that is her life. To hear about her current workshops, performances and counseling services, contact her at (206) 612-3511 or workteri@yahoo.com

Chris Ingenito has attended Summer Camp for three years, has spent much time at ZEGG in Germany, Tamera in Portugal, and is interested in community living where our whole selves can be authentically present. As the Director of the Women's Program at the Body Electric School and also as a hospice social worker, for 20 years, Chris has worked as a psychotherapist with a focus on sexuality and empowerment. Many traditions have inspired her along her path, including the Body Electric School, Quodoushka, and Tantra. Her greatest teachers have been living from her heart and body in loving communion with others.

For a detailed examination of the development and use of this process at ZEGG, see What is the ZEGG Forum? in our document library section.