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LINA DE GUEVARA MARIA DEOTTO TASHA DIAMANT DONALD DONY
Lina de Guevara is an actor,
theatre director, storyteller and drama teacher. A specialist in Transformational theatre, Theatre
of the Oppressed and Commedia dell’Arte, she founded PUENTE Theatre in 1988 to create and produce plays about diversity and the immigrant experience. She was its Artistic Director for 23 years. She’s directed many solo shows including “Emergence”, “Uthe/Athe”, “Patriot in search of a country”, “Heinz 57”, and “Peace Mum”, and conducted storytelling/poetry solo performance workshops in Victoria, Kitchener and Toronto. linadeguevara.ca
Maria Deotto BA, CEC, PCC, is the owner of MOCO coaching and consulting. In the past 20 years, she has worked with major North American blue chip clients and has developed outstanding, award- winning marketing materials
that have changed the course of traditional advertising. She has extensive experience in sales generating initiatives including marketing and media sales, and successfully achieved sales targets as Advertising Sales Director and Publisher for National Magazine programs in Canada.
Tasha Diamant is a gifted facilitator and award-winning teacher. She experiences art from the perspective that every human is a creative being with the potential to paint. She has taught painting at Lethbridge College, as well as privately, and has succeeded with many doubters. Her dramatic, colourful work
can be viewed at tashadiamant. wix.com/gallery. Tasha is also a performance artist/activist and an associate faculty member at RRU, yet painting is her rst love.
Donald Dony holds the top global technical analysis designation, Masters of Financial Technical Analysis (MFTA). He is a fellow
of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI) and a registered securities advisor. He designs
and teaches courses to industry professionals for the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) and has over 20 years’ experience teaching and speaking internationally
on trading techniques and intermarket analysis.
Erika Deines, BAJus, CMed, offers a unique combination of training and experience in mediation, facilitation and professional coaching, helping create effective dialogue to share ideas, create plans, tackle issues, or resolve con ict. She is a Chartered Mediator, holds a BA in Justice Studies and is a graduate of the Erickson College professional coaching program. She recently completed post-graduate studies in the Neuroscience of Leadership.
Tammy Dewar, PhD, PCC, brings a down to earth, entrepreneurial and hopeful attitude to her executive and team coaching, emotional and social intelligence, leadership, creativity and visual intelligence. She has
been an associate faculty with RRU since 1997 and received a coaching award by Leadership Victoria in 2014. She has a passion and expertise for helping leaders deal with employee and team morale, engagement, trust and/or con ict issues through fast response action research, coaching experiences and customized learning strategies. pixpired.com
Denis Donnelly’s work centers
on bringing people back to the richness of a more conscious
and joyful awareness of poetry
and music. His awareness of the transformative nature of poetry has been enlivened by his many trips
to Ireland with poet David Whyte. The former director of the Victoria Conservatory, Denis is now the co- director of the Gettin’ Higher Choir, Soundings vocal ensemble, Royal Roads Music Group, and a frequent music and poetry workshop leader and clinician. denisdonnelly.ca; soundingsmusic.com
John Dowler is an accomplished senior public sector leader and nancial management professional who recently retired from a successful 34 year career, primarily with the Government of British Columbia. For the most recent 24 of those years, John also taught (on a part-time basis) Graduate and Undergraduate courses for two universities, a college and
the Society of Management Accountants of British Columbia. He has been an Associate Faculty member of RRU for 13 years.
ERIKA DEINES
TAMMY DEWAR DENIS DONNELLY JOHN DOWLER
FACILITATORS