FOUNDER + DIRECTOR

Known by Fortune 500 executives and visionaries for her thought leadership as an accelerator, Moe has built her career by challenging the status quo and inspiring deep shifts in perspective. With over 45 years of practice across the public and private sectors, Moe has garnered a breadth of institutional knowledge and a depth of experiences that have led her to bust veils that stagnate transformation within traditional paradigms.

Having walked alongside renowned global teachers from the east to the west, Moe’s life has been committed to expanding the interpretation of the human journey to an awareness of recurring patterns from an evolutionary point of view. Since opening a residential retreat center outside of Chicago in 1995, Moe has been providing a different level of healing to clients, facilitating individualized intensives, and training multidisciplinary professionals who want to widen their lens on various forms of healing.

When she lost her eyesight in 2003, she was challenged to find the place deep inside her that was "happy with, and happy without" eyesight. It was also suggested that her migraine headaches were in part happening to help her see she was not following my grain in the tight box of her career as a top administrator at the University of Wisconsin. She was told, "Moe, your energy is bigger than this container." As the Director and Founder of the Unscripted School of Healing, Moe is on a mission to offer, to those who want it, a glimpse into what lies outside of the container.

ADDICTION SPECIALIST, MS, LCPC

Highly respected in his field, Rick Atwater is known for his straight-forward, behavior-oriented approach to addiction. In a high-risk field where experience is invaluable, Rick has facilitated assessments, substance abuse interventions, treatment and recovery support for over 40 years. He was one of the earliest Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors in the State of Illinois.

Today, he travels nation-wide, is Co-Director of Northwest Community Counseling Services, and founder of Employee Health Consultants, Inc., specializing in comprehensive employee assistant services. He is published nationally, founder of the Heroin Awareness Foundation, and recognized as the “Home-Town Hero” for helping addicts and supporting their families.

Starting in 1984, he has written and responded to readers about addiction-related topics for the Northwest Herald in a column head-lined as “Straight Talk”. Rick co-hosts Recovery Internet Radio, a radio show that hosts interviews that broaden the conversation on addiction (episodes can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts).

INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY THERAPIST

Connee has accomplished so much in her life that when you hear or read her resume, you will likely feel a little overwhelmed. She was born on a Midwest farm, where she learned the value of hard work and was the first woman to be hired by the Illinois Tollway Maintenance Department to run a jackhammer and drive a snowplow.

She moved on to spend over 40 years in the social services field: Executive Director of the Pioneer Center, establishing 8 group homes, Community Education Director at MCC, Public Relations Director at Sunrise Assistant Living, President of the McHenry County Mental Health Board, serve on the board of the Substance Abuse Coalition, member of the Dawn Breakers Rotary and the Woman's Club of Crystal Lake, and counselor in the areas of Substance Abuse, Process Addictions, and Grief Counseling. In addition, she has experience working with seniors, adolescents, adults, and people with IDD, mental health issues, and substance abuse…. On and on.

When she asked about joining the Unscripted School of Healing’s staff, it was clear that the fuel for Connee’s heartbeat is helping to inspire others to get unstuck from whatever is holding them back from the life they want to live. Drawing from formal training and education, as well as years of experience in various social services roles, she understands what it takes to understand and move through the habitual patterns that can make a mess of our lives. Connee is tenacious and seasoned enough to meet you where you are at and start from that collaborative place where you feel understood and then figure out, together, a path that sparks joy in your life. She knows how to uncomplicate what may feel enormously complicated and offer a variety of resources and tools and a whole lot of love.

EXECUTIVE COACH

Drawing from rich life experience, and specialized training in emotional crisis coaching, Amy has come to learn the steps it takes to cultivate resilience and get to the other side. After 10 + years in corporate America, Amy was confronted with what many human beings face in life: a situation she couldn't "fix". Over the past 20 years, she has worked with therapists and mentors who assisted her in transforming her trauma. With the desire to give back and help others, she became a certified life coach. Along with deep wisdom she carries from her experience and training, Amy offers clients a level of compassion and a way through that can only be given by someone who has been there.

Known as a highly-tuned listener and critical thinker, Amy’s coaching ethos invites the questions, reflection, and pause that emerge transformational change & sustainable solutions. At the intersection of self-discovery, awareness, & conflict resolution, Amy collaborates with you to deconstruct difficult scenarios, find new ways of thinking, & create the building blocks of healing that pave the way for the future you want to create.

GRIEF & QUALITY OF LIFE SPECIALIST, LCSW, FT

Over the last 40 years, Jamie has facilitated a process of return within end of life care. As the co-founder and director of Stillpoint Institute, Jamie provides end of life resolution for individuals and families from all over the world. Her work focuses on how to foster a profound discovery of purpose through grief, death, and pain. Jamie’s holistic approach integrates allopathic form, psychiatric modalities, and ancient wisdom to accelerate transformative growth.

Jamie is a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Board-Certified Fellow in Thanatology; She supervises and trains physicians, nurses, rehabilitation professionals, and psychotherapists. She consults privately for local non-profit foundations and educational institutions with graduate faculty experience. Her specialties include: Spiritual Life-Path Guidance; Complementary Health and Healing/Integrative Medicine; Adjustment to Chronic and Terminal Illnesses; Death, Dying, and Bereavement Concerns; Healing from Trauma and Grief; End-of-Life Resolution; and Existential/Identity Crises of Adolescence and Aging.

During her years companioning and counseling the soul journeys of hundreds of patients and families in hospitals, homes, and clinics, Jamie was able to witness synchronous and sacred experiences that continue to remind her of the benevolence of this Universe. To realize “what we are truly made of” has become her life’s calling. Today, what Jamie has come to know continues to expand—unscripting and expanding her generational legacy of love through every channel.