AU Faculty

 

As the Director of Animal University, I am delighted to introduce you to some of our gifted and talented faculty! 

 Joyce Leake’s career as an animal communicator began in 1994. Her work inspired AU’s 5 Levels to Interspecies Communication Certificate Program. Joyce has co-authored with Dr. Vickie Wickhorst, PhD, 2 books, Decoding the Mystery of Interspecies Communication and its companion workbook Communicating with Animals, the Twenty-One Day Guide to Success. Her travels include a two-year commitment in Japan on primetime television Mr. Shimura’s Zoo and headlining the Tokyo Pet Show. While her career continues to expand in Japan and South Korea, teaching animal communication remains her passion. Her vision to promote other animal practitioners is made possible through her innovative commitment, Animal University. To learn more about Joyce, click here.

 

 

Mary Walewski, MLS,   Buy The Book Marketing, Board Member of CIPA, Colorado Independent Publishers Association

 Contact: mary@animaluniversity.com  or 303-725-9313 Commerce City, Colorado USA

Mary teaches many of WAPPA’s business courses in marketing, especially social media marketing. Her company, Buy The Book Marketing specializes in teaching authors and entrepreneurs how to market their books and services online using website optimization, blogging, social media marketing, and Amazon.com.

Mary has over two decades of sales and marketing experience and has previously worked for newspapers, libraries, and high tech corporations. She founded her company after discovering there was a real need for her services among local authors. After helping a friend market her first book, her phone started ringing with referrals from her friend, always starting with the phrase, “I need some help in marketing my book…”

“The challenge is, authors and business owners know they should be marketing online, but don’t have a clue how to get started,” she says. “My job is to reduce the mystery and make it easy – even fun – to participate in social media and market online.”

 

Bette Heller, Esq. Specializing in legal issues surrounding our animals

Contact: bette@animaluniversity.com,  Centennial, Colorado USA

Bette Heller is AU’s co-director of Animal Communication classes. She’s also an attorney in private practice limited to Estate Planning, Probate, and Medicaid Planning.  AND, Bette’s an Animal Communicator too! Her desire to talk with the animals has broadened her career.  She is now combines the social work aspect of her Law Practice, which involves counseling her clients in dealing with their own death and/or the death of their family members with counseling animal owners in dealing with the legal and emotional issues that arise when faced with the death of their animals.

A brief look into only a few of Bette’s contributions to our animals include: Served as Director for the Colorado Horse Council for eighteen years where she was instrumental in the drafting and passage of the Colorado Equine Limited Liability Act, and authoring the Colorado Pets Trusts Stature.

 

Zoë Hanley – wildlife ecologist, outdoor enthusiast, certified ThetaHealing^® practitioner, animal communicator 

Contact Zoë: zoe@animaluniversity.com, Denver, CO

Zoë Hanley is AU’s Director of Research Studies, as well as a wildlife ecologist, outdoor enthusiast, certified ThetaHealing^® practitioner, and an animal communicator.  To achieve Zoë’s childhood dream of working with wild animals she obtained a B.S. and M.S. in Applied Ecology and Conservation Biology. Her experience with wild animals ranges from caretaking and rehabilitating reptiles and amphibians at a wildlife education center to researching bobcat and fisher habitat associations in the Appalachian Mountains.

In addition to her passion for animals and nature, Zoë has always been interested in intuitive/energy work.  In 2008, while training to become a certified ThetaHealing^® practitioner, she learned intuitive communication between humans and the natural world was possible.  This sparked an interest in combining her academic ecological background with that of interspecies communication.  Zoe’s goal is to holistically address scientific questions humans have about the natural world in an attempt to help alleviate human-wildlife conflict. She is conducting research with Animal University to scientifically validate interspecies communication using wildlife populations.

To learn more about Zoe’s research projects for AU, click here.

 

 

Andrea Floyd, Author of  Conscious Transitions: How to be fully present with and for your animals as they transition from this life to the next.

Contact Andrea: Andrea@AnimalUniversity.com or 303-995-0249 Arvada, Colorado

Andrea Floyd is a writer, personal development coach, speaker and an animal communicator.  Andrea has spent many years learning from the animals in her life as they prepared to transition from life to life, and reconnecting with them after the transition.  Andrea has brought this knowledge to Conscious Transitions, an experiential class on how to be fully present with and for your animals as they transition from this life to the next. 

Conscious Transitions is about empowering you to face your fear, grief and possible guilt so that you can be a full partner to and even a student of your animal as he or she leaves her or his body.  Conscious Transitions will leave you aware of the soul that is your animal companion, and the beauty of creating a space of love and peace for that soul to move from this awareness to the next when the time comes.  Andrea Floyd is the author of Conscious Transitions, available soon through AU as an ebook.

 

 

Gillian Driscoll Ph.D.,Elemental Harmony – Celebrate the moment!

Contact:   Gillian@animaluniversity.com or  303- 548-2108  Loveland, Colorado USA

Gillian Driscoll Ph.D., is a writer, speaker and spiritual guidance coach who enjoys helping others find clarity, encouragement and guidance in their everyday lives.  Gillian is a Certified Akashic Records Practitioner, an Angel Therapy Practitioner, a Certified Past Life Reader and a Reiki Master.  She helps clients get in touch with the guidance that resides in their Akashic Records, an immense repository of individual spiritual information, and also from their past lives and their angels. Learn more about Gillian.

 

Sara Sherman, Discovery Horse Life Coach

www.discoveryhorse.com, sara@discoveryhorse.com, 218-232-2495

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”  - Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”

My name is Sara, and my story is about beginnings. There are schools of thought that define us as a result of what we have done, and what we do today. If I were to define myself in such a way, I would say, “My name is Sara. I am an addict, a mother, a sister, a daughter, a life partner, a Life Coach, an animal lover, a friend…” You get the picture. Click to learn more…