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As mother and daughter, we
have been working together to facilitate women's healing
and empowerment for the last 8 years. Using Crystal’s
highly effective energy based approach that integrates
somatic psychology, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, body-mind
awareness and systems thinking, women are given
individualized practices to transform self-limiting
habits, beliefs, and relationship dynamics. The wounds
of the past and how we survived them no longer have to
define who we think we are and unconsciously influence
our life choices.
 Crystal
Forthomme, M.A.
Co-Founder and Facilitator
Crystal’s work for the past thirty years has been
devoted to exploring the relationship between healing
and empowerment. As a professor at John F. Kennedy
University, she taught for over a decade in the graduate
programs of Holistic Health Education and Transpersonal
Psychology, where she taught classes in Stress Response
Training, Intimacy: A Path of the Heart, Movement
Psychology, Human Sexuality, Teacher Training Seminars,
Paradigms of Consciousness and Transpersonal Bodywork.
As a mid-wife to her students, Crystal prepared pioneers
in these emerging fields in the early 1980’s.
For three decades, Crystal has had a private practice in
movement psychology and facilitated empowerment
workshops for women entitled, Awakening the Power of the
Feminine, Changing with the Change: Menopause, A Gateway
to Wholeness, and Being In Action. She is known as a
catalyst for change, an innovative teacher, and an
evocative and inspirational speaker.
Crystal has facilitated
leadership and teambuilding for global executives for
twenty years. Her work, primarily with RealChange
Network, integrates principles and practices from the
martial arts to facilitate embodied leadership and
empowered, creative teams. She is a leadership coach for
executives and for Social Venture Network.
In addition, Crystal
expresses her deep passion for life and relationships
through poetry, song and dance. Crystal is happily
married, the proud mother of three grown daughters, and
known adoringly by her three grandchildren as “Ocean
Gramma.”
You can contact Crystal
directly at
crystal@wearealldaughters.com
 Rhiannon Surrenda, M.A.
Co-Founder and Facilitator
At 17 years old, Rhiannon became a youth educator,
wanting to make a difference for the youth of her
community. This covered topics from self-esteem to
sexuality and drug and alcohol education, laying the
foundation for her counseling work with “at-risk” youth
at the Contra Costa Probation department, as well as the
Log Cabin Juvenile Detention Facility. Recognized for
her teaching ability, Rhiannon was asked to be a student
teacher in the Sociology department at San Francisco
State University. She then moved into co-facilitating
Being In Action leadership groups, further developing
her strength as a teacher/facilitator of women on their
path to empowerment. With a B.A. in Psychology from SFSU,
an M.A. in Organizational Psychology and a Graduate
Certificate in Conflict Management both from JFKU,
Rhiannon worked for two consulting firms, The Leadership
Edge and Real Change Network as a Training and Research
Associate. She assisted in International Learning
Expeditions, Executive team-building and Leadership
Seminars and geographically dispersed team research and
trainings. Rhiannon expresses her passion and creativity
through dance, music, photography and time at the beach.
You can contact Rhiannon
directly at
rhiannon@wearealldaughters.com
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