#61: Barbara Phillips: 85-year old bison rancher shares her wisdom about what the buffalo and healthy soils have to teach us about a restorative economy of well-being.

Barbara Phillips, a 85-year old former bison/buffalo rancher shares her wisdom about what the buffalo and healthy soils have to teach us about a restorative economy of well-being. Barbara, who lives in Edmonton, discussed a wide range of topics from her experience as a buffalo rancher in Oregon, regenerative agriculture,  mediation and circle dialogue facilitation.  Barbara shares some excellent tips on advancing an economy of well-being. Barbara is a skilled and highly experienced mediator, trainer, facilitator, speaker and coach. She has worked with groups as diverse as ministerial levels of government and top executives of U.S. Fortune 50 companies as well as social services professionals, blue-collar line staff, engineers, lawyers, street people, caregivers and artists, among others. Her shortcuts help people process complex emotions so as to foster healthy relationships and to remove barriers to functionality. She has 25 years’ of experience in mediation and facilitation with emphasis on both sensitive issues as well as the complex, technical and highly polarized She has been an Adjunct Faculty at University of Santa Clara Law School, Golden Gate University Law School, Erickson College, Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society Edmonton, and the Justice Institute’s Conflict Resolution Program and faculty / coach for the TLC Caregivers School in Edmonton Barbara invites clients to think and see in new ways while providing effective, immediately usable new skills. Kenneth Cloke the founder and former president of Mediators Beyond Borders has this to say about Barbara: "Barbara Phillips is brilliant. She is incredibly insightful – not simply in spotting surface issues, or even those that lie hidden beneath the surface – but in rooting out the deeply subconscious, artfully camouflaged, deliberately locked away issues that are key to transformational outcomes. She is gentle, kind, intelligent and articulate, and possesses uncanny accuracy and limitless courage. She has had a profound impact on thousands. May you be fortunate enough to be one of them.“