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CALIFORNIA-BORN AUTHOR AND PRESENTER BARBARA BREWSTER, embodies a wealth of experience with challenge and change. As a young woman she studied gymnastics in Denmark, majored in Russian, hostessed a restaurant in Afghanistan, hitchhiked across continents, and immigrated to Australia. She shares her long-time love affair with Australia in the acclaimed Down Under All Over. Her most challenging adventure, however, began in 1984 when she was stricken with symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Barbara's courage and commitment to explore and risk personal change is chronicled in her deeply honest Journey to Wholeness, which has been acclaimed by Deepak Chopra, Jerry Jampolksy and other leaders of the wholistic health movement. Her recovery and her conviction that we have choice, regardless of the issue, has inspired many. In her latest book, Love or Growth: Why Not Both? - A Woman's Dilemma, she tells her own story of a woman striving to live her burgeoning spiritual and personal truth while in the context of an established relationship. It is hailed as an inspiring blend of the personal and universal - "a powerful motivator and an inspirational tool for women who stand on the edge of major change." (more comments >>) At the age of 50, as part of her program to lighten up, Barbara became a clown and toured Russian hospitals and orphanages with clown/MD Patch Adams. This resulted in her co-founding the MCG (Melbourne Clown Group) (*no longer existing) and the Coastal Caring Clowns on the Sunshine Coast. The principles of comedy and of living wholely are the same, says Barbara, who since 1998 has presented "Power of Play" (POP!), “Divine Play,” “Creative Play,” Rambunctious Writing," "Clowning for Cowards" and a variety of uplifting workshops for adults interested in enhancing and expanding their humor and joy, self-awareness and choices, health and creativity. Designated an Australian citizen in 2001 by virtue of “Distinguished Talent,” Barbara has developed her social advocacy, co-founding Buddies, a group which helps refugees; volunteered in Africa with animals and HIV children; and strongly supports spreading awareness about the truth of human treatment of animals. Barbara’s current passions include offering private and group "Living Fully" and “Awareness” mentoring sessions for teens and adults, practicing and teaching what has become a fruitful passion—recognizing how suppressed and unhealed emotional blocks prevent us from living fully, forming a Silly Singers Troupe, being the “Arjay” (wise older woman) to her four Afghani “grandchildren,” and growing her garden. Described as an “Elder Extraordinare,” Barbara is known as a world-class speaker, facilitator and mentor who encourages people to look afresh at their challenging circumstances and to reconceive their options. She divides her time between Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and her new home base in the South Burnett.
* NEW! Practice Follows Passion: Barbara’s “deeply honest and raw” contribution in the recently published book, Way of the Natural Therapist, which features Inspirational Personal Stories to Guide Modern-Day Healers. * Joy to the world: Read this feature article about Barbara published in WEEKENDER, August 2008. * Cooroy Rag, March 2008 * Interview in the Bali Advertiser, Bali, Indonesia, January, 2007
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