Chris Giffen and Clara Lindstrom

Christopher Giffen is a singer, a facilitator, a husband, a runner, a therapist, a father, a dancer, and a poet. He has been coming to Naramata his whole life, and offering leadership here for nearly 3 decades. Chris writes and performs music with his band, rEvolve, which expresses his passion for a different world. He loves to weave his music with spiritual practice in ritual and therapeutic spaces. He was profoundly transformed by his friendship, mentorship and collaboration with Joanna Macy, and now he is passionate about carrying her work onward.  

Clara Lindstrom is an archetypal astrologer, community-weaver, and spiritual guide. Her background includes an MA and doctoral work in Transpersonal Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Drawn to liminal spaces since childhood, Clara’s work with Zen Hospice led to her becoming trained in psychedelic guiding and Hakomi therapy. Clara discovered Joanna’s work in 2004 and experienced, like so many others, an immediate paradigm shift and sense of coming home; a life divided into “before” and “after” the Work that Reconnects. She feels blessed to have studied and worked with Joanna at CIIS, to have laughed and sung with her, and to witness the ripple effects of Joanna’s teachings in her own work as a healer, and in the life of her child.