   About the Lindwall Releasing Community The Lindwall Foundation (which no longer exists and hereafter will be referred to as the Lindwall Releasing Community), was established in 1998, to further the legacy of Isa and Yolanda Lindwall. The Lindwall Releasing Community has been involved in outreach work, bringing Releasing to economically disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and throughout the world. Building upon the extraordinary odyssey that began in 1978, the former Lindwall Foundation (which no longer exists) has cultivated Isa and Yolanda Lindwall's vast array of worldwide contacts including laypersons, health care professionals, clergy, educators and community leaders to create a network of trained individuals dedicated to lifting humanity from the often traumatizing and debilitating life experiences. Isa and Yolanda have personally worked in the United States and 38 other countries over the last 25 years, and their work continues and grows through empowering others to learn, practice and teach Releasing. The Lindwall Releasing Community Vision: A world in which people of all races, backgrounds and socio-economic classes have opportunities to heal from trauma, pain and tragedies of war, terrorism and natural disasters, as well as personal, mental, emotional and physical suffering. The Lindwall Releasing Community Mission: Through education and healing with the Lindwall Releasing Process, the Releasing Community works to empower individuals and communities to overcome the traumas of human rights abuses, political conflict, terrorism, natural disasters and personal trauma in order to experience well-being, self-esteem, constructive relationships, hope and optimism. The Lindwall Releasing Community has established effective emotional and community healing programs as a vital component of both national and international development, education and aid and relief work. The Lindwall Releasing Community's goal is to form strategic partnerships and alliances with other groups, organizations, foundations, agencies and institutions that work with communities that are struggling with problems of poverty, human rights abuses, political conflict, terrorism, natural disasters and personal trauma. A New Focus for the Future With the passing of Isa Lindwall in 2007, the Lindwall Community has been moving into a new transition phase with a structured emphasis being placed on community healing and international outreach work. This work has been the focus of the former Foundation's C.E.O. Dr. Stephen Marcus, and his wife, Barbara Kroll, both of whom have been intensely involved in the Releasing work in South Africa. The releasing community has also been active in bringing Releasing to Louisiana for the healing of victims of Hurricane Katrina through the work of our former Executive Director Jeannie Whyte in 2005, as well as other programs and workshops. Through the former Foundation's work in South Africa and with victims of Hurricane Katrina, Releasing facilitators have naturally been drawn to a new involvement with healing and rebuilding communities and lives that have been traumatized by violence, poverty, repression or natural disasters. With rapidly-shifting geo-political, technological and economic forces of globalization, many communities and regions in the developing world are subject to grueling challenges of displacement, ethnic and racial conflict and social instability. These areas are in dire need of viable programs of healing, reconciliation and reconstruction, as well as initiatives that inspire leadership and understanding in communities with extraordinary difficulties and challenges. Hence the Foundation is developing its healing work, Releasing programs and the use of Energy Psychology to provide practical and effective resources for helping people in these communities meet the peculiar demands of change and transformation in the 21st Century. The Lindwall Releasing Community Staff and Facilitators: Stephen Marcus, PhD. Dr Stephen M. Marcus received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge University, England in 1977. He worked as university lecturer for 10 years at the Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, researching human speech perception. While in the Netherlands he was a contact person for the Findhorn Community and founded the One Earth Nederland Foundation. In 1986 he joined AT&T Bell Labs Research in Murray Hill, New Jersey, working on human and computer speech recognition and their application in the telephone network. Dr Marcus is the recipient of 8 US patents. From 1998 to 2001 he was Vice President of Technology at International Asset Systems in San Francisco developing Internet solutions to reduce wasteful and unnecessary transportation of empty containers in the container shipping industry. From 2001 to the present he has been traveling and working with the Lindwalls and the Lindwall Foundation (which is no longer in existence), playing a strong leadership role in bringing Releasing to disadvantaged communities in South Africa. Barbara Kroll Barbara Kroll was trained as foreign correspondent and has worked with Isa and Yolanda Lindwall and Releasing since 1986. From 1995 to 2004 she was their international coordinator, travelling with them to many countries organizing workshops and teaching Releasing. Barbara has traveled widely internationally, spending a year at Sorn Thawee monastery meditation Center in Thailand, and worked with Harley Miller of the Findhorn Community for the Spirit of Europe Foundation in the early eighties. She worked as proofreader for the German newspaper der Tagesspiegel and at Allianz Insurance and has 10 years of professional experience in bodywork, including Shiatsu and other modalities. Along with Dr. Stephen Marcus, Barbara has been deeply involved in bringing Releasing to disadvantaged communities in South Africa. Sabine Treess Sabine Treess studied cultural educational theory (literature, art, psychology) at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Her further studies were in the economy of neighborhood and local community at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg. Sabine is a psychotherapist and healing practitioner and was one of Isa and Yolanda Lindwall's first Releasing students in Germany in 1984. Since 1987 Sabine organizes and leads seminars and training groups for future releasing therapists and seminar leaders. She founded and managed several non-profit associations in the area of adult and family education. Sabine works as a Releasing therapist in her own practice (near Hamburg) and has diverse experience in therapy and healing as well as non-profit organizations. Sabine is currently developing a written curriculum and workbook for the Lindwall Releasing Training of the Trainers Program, which will be used in South Africa and in international outreach work. |