Full Circle Seminars, LLC was started in 2007 by Chrissy and Dave McFarren shortly after they became Certified Shadow Work® Group Facilitators.
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Chrissy McFarren is a certified Shadow Work® facilitator and EAGALA® (Equine Assisted Growth & Learning) facilitator. Chrissy has over 10 years of experience in the field of personal healing work. She is leader/co-leader/creator of many workshops, circles, rituals and ceremonies. She also facilitates co-ed Shadow Work® weekends and one day workshops with her husband, Dave McFarren. Chrissy is also honored to be on the facilitation team for the women’s training, Women in Power . Chrissy has worked with horses since she was a young girl and continues to share her life with horses on the farm. She has over 25 years of horse experience and continues her work in natural horsemanship training and working with the healing powers of the horse-human connection through equine assisted personal growth work. In addition, Chrissy is a visionary artist who creates artwork for the promotion of balance on this earth and she can be hired to create custom art pieces. |
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Dave McFarren is a Certified Shadow Work® Group Facilitator. He did the New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA) weekend in March, 1999 and has been facilitating personal work ever since, staffing many NWTA weekends and taking several follow-on/leadership trainings. He and fellow New Warrior brother Rhett Bigler teach the Basic Carpet Facilitation for I-Groups training, which is based on Shadow Work® methodology. Dave is active in his New Warrior I-Group, where he often practices his Shadow Work® skills. When not doing personal work he works as a Database Applications Developer, and helps Chrissy with raising their three children and the up-keep of their 15 acre farm in Jefferson County, WV (about 70 miles west of Washington, DC). |
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Cathleen A. Burns, MA (Cathy) is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Cathy received her degree from George Washington University in Counseling and Human Development and has worked in private practice for 20 years. Cathy specializes in working with adolescents, women’s issues, parenting issues, couples and relationship issues. She has done extensive post graduate training in family systems, Ericksonian Hypnosis, NLP, voice and body dialogue, critical incident debriefing and trauma. Cathy has also facilitated a number of women’s groups and has staffed Women Within Workshops, Healing the Mother Wound Workshops and Vets Journey Home. Cathy feels deeply privileged and blessed in her work and has a deep respect for the healing and knowing within each individual soul. |


