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Staff
INNERPATHWORKS staff uses a combination of coaching, consulting and mentoring styles of instruction.
- Coaching is direct interaction with student/s based on specific curriculum or personal goals the student has chosen for his or herself.
- Consulting is helping the student define and understand resources and options available to them. The final decision rests with the student.
- True mentoring is almost invisible to the student. The mentor provides experiences meant to lead a student to a critical edge where the most transition and personal empowerment is the result.
Meet Our Staff and Support Team
 
Randy Russell, MS Colleen Russell, MA
Randy, Co-Director & Co-Founder, is currently completing his PhD in Applied EcoPsychology from Akamai University. He earned his Master's degree from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in Recreation & Leisure. His post graduate training also includes secondary education, psychology, youth services, indigenous wisdom, outdoor emergency care and experiential education.
One of Randy's main assets for working with families is the training and initiation into adulthood by wise parents, mentors and "Elders".
Randy has been working in transition work since 1974, when he and his family started a mentoring program for college students.
His experience includes recreation therapist, summer camp director, therapeutic wilderness director, high school teacher, licensed minister, and program director and co-designer of three leadership and transition into adulthood programs.
Colleen, Instructor & Co-Founder, educational background is in journalism and transpersonal psychology with a Master's from The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
She has taught transition skills for the past twelve years with extensive research and training in all areas of human life transitions. Her specialty is in Women's Studies and a woman's journey into wholeness.
Colleen and Randy facilitate a parent training for the families of InnerPathWork students which assists the parents in successfully launching mature adults.
Colleen is a certified dream coach and nero-linguistic programmer. She is the co-author of the best-seller Overcomers, Inc. She regularly facilitates workshops for women through Quest4Wholeness.
Greg Hitchcock M.Ed., PPS
Co-Director & Instructor
Greg has been an educator, executive and entrepreneur in the behavioral health and addiction treatment space for over fifteen years. He founded and/or directed several successful programs, including the STEP Intervention and Leadership Program, Mount Bachelor Academy’s Wilderness Therapy Program, Woodland Lodge, CEDU Family of Services and Wilderness Quest.
As a nationally sought-after consultant, Greg has had the opportunity to envision and launch therapeutic programs in Honduras and Russia, present seminars and workshops at national conferences, and help numerous therapeutic programs grow in quality and enrollments.
Greg has a Bachelor’s Degree from Houghton College with a double major in English and Recreation and a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Redlands. Greg is a college guidance counselor with the expertise to assist the "out of the box" style young person for success in life. Greg’s ample time in the classroom as an English teacher, in the field as a wilderness instructor, and with clients and referrers as a marketer enables him to provide necessary and practical help for each individual and family.
Greg enjoys boating, backpacking, wilderness survival, and skiing with his wife Charlene and his three sons Kaden, Jackson and Tristan. Greg is an avid mountaineer, hunter, and fly-fisherman who is grateful to have the Selkirk Mountains as his backyard.
Liz Manthei .
Instructor
Liz brings exceptional culinary training to InnerPathWorks. Her culinary training was at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, one of the finest European and North American culinary arts training programs available today. She received instruction from World renowned chefs, including Nicolas Lodge (a chef to the Royal Family of England) and Chef John Kanadu (a European trained Master Chef).
She is currently the owner and director of Peppercorn Catering. She specializes in catering services for golfers and corporations at the Masters' golf tournament providing exceptional catering for a wide variety of special events.
Liz is a master seamstress, an expert in primitive cooking skills and wilderness survival skills. Her present interest is in permaculture and sustainable living skills. Under her inspiration students learn advanced cooking skills, entreprerial skills, farming and much more.
Liz is the owner of Cedar Hollow campus which she is turning into a sustainable community of artists who want to make a positive difference on our planet.
Matt Donahue
a.k.a. Leo La Dome
Matt, Colleen and Randy's son, has a passion and vision to assist young people discover and create lives of meaning, creativity and adventure.
Matt is an Artist, Musician, Entrepreneur, Designer, Life Coach, Teacher, and World -Renowned Snow-Boarder.
His resume includes the creative force behind The Movement Snow boards, Nike model and world traveler, and international businessman. He has mentored young people for over a decade, first in snow board camps and then therapeutic and emotional growth programs.
Matt’s renaissance style and passion for life make him a very positive and powerful inspiration and motivator for young adults as they design and follow their dreams and passions. He knows how to live the alternative lifestyle (as well as the 9 to 5 job) and is a highly acclaimed teacher and mentor.
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Karie Knoke .
Karie, Instructor, loves to share her passion for health, healing, and helping others to find their own true nature. She is an energy medicine practitioner in the Incan tradition and reiki master. She uses local wildcrafted herbs to supplement her healing work. She is also a primitive skills instructor, answering the call of her own childhood passions.
Karie earned a BS. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Business Administration as well as a minor in Psychology. She started her career as a Systems Analyst in the Seattle area where she eventually started her own consulting company. She now lives a sustainable life style where she lives in a 30’yurt that is off the grid with a small solar system, rain collection system, composting toilet, woodstove for heat and a certified organic garden.
Currently, she works as a computer consultant for The Organic Center, doing database analysis and reports pertaining to genetically engineered foods, pesticide use and food safety, and greenhouse gases emitted from dairy cows. She also works for InnerPathWorks as a mentor/instructor where she can combine her life experiences and wisdom to help others find their true selves and step into their dreams.
She enjoys backpacking, snowboarding, kayaking, beading, knitting, ceremony, playing music, native crafts, brain-tanning, archery, and ALL the primitive skills. Past adventures include a three month kayak expedition in Alaska, scuba dive master, Alaskan commercial fisherwoman, competition waterskiing, ten months of traveling in Central America.
Arlene R. Taylor PhD, consultant, is one of the world's leading speakers on brain function. She is sometimes referred to as the brain guru. She specializes in simplifying this complex topic of brain function, with the goal of helping individuals learn to thrive by design. Whether through keynote addresses, seminars, consulting, coaching, television and radio, or her books, CDs, and DVDs, success stories pour in from the four corners of the world.
Dr. Taylor is founder and president of Realizations Inc, a non-profit corporation that engages in brain-function research and provides related educational resources. She works with InnerPathWorks as a consultant, assisting our students to discover their natural energy efficient brain function advantage.
We highly recommend her books, DVD,s and website for those who want to better understand themselves and their young adults. www.arlenetaylor.org
David Kirchhof
Instructor
David is an artist, a earth friendly designer and builder, an nature awareness instructor, an elder for the Twin Eagles Wilderness school and well versed in natural healing modalities.
David caretakes and directs training at Medicine Wheel Circle, which occasionally becomes a remote campus for InnerPathWorks.
Other Staff not yet pictured are:
Michelle Moneta Instructor
INNERPATHWORKS
110 Main, Suite 207, Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
info@innerpathworks.com
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