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Indigenous (nehiyawk) Worldview on Animals within Ceremony

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Ethics, Reciprocity and related issues (e.g. mitigating opportunistic use of IIC)

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IIC with animals at end-of-life and/or after death

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How do we define IIC: What's in? What's out? And when does it matter?

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IIC and Wildlife

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IIC and Working with Service Animals (Animal Assisted Interventions)

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To discuss how effective IIC can be when assiting wildlife, and how to address the challenges involved.

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- How IIC positively influenced the relationship between baboons and people living in the same area in South Africa

- Interviewing animals through animal communicators: Potentials of intuitive interspecies communication for multispecies methods

- How communicating with chimpanzees can improve their wellbeing and influence a sanctuary decision making

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Wynter Worsthorne

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Joseph Naytowhow (nehiyaw)

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Honouring the four-legged, winged ones, and swimmers.

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Sadly this session will be happening at 2am here in Australia, so I won’t be able to join as previously hoped 😌 but I wish everyone a wonderful discussion
Cathy Babcook
Myself as well, Colleen Dell
Leah Black
I thank you in advance for giving me the opportunity to participate in this session
Allana Foster
Lorenza Sciarini
Belinda Farinaccia
Amba Sepie
Maryellen Gibson
Lynda Spencer
Wynter Worsthorne
Hilary Van Welter
Charlie Kempson-Hopkins
Beverly Alexander

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Sydney Kuppenbender, Metis Graduate Student ; Terry L. Brown
sorry, a few names got deleted... please attend anyway if this is where you want to be!

Johanna Ballé - Intuiteurs sans Frontières

Oona Widmer - Intuiteurs sans Frontières (I'm sorry, but my level of English is really insufficient to take part orally in the exchanges. So I will be mainly in a listening position. Thanks to you).

Patrice Carbaugh. DVM

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Sydney Kuppenbender

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Laura Zmud

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This session will explore the layers of a communication session and what is within the scope of IIC. Does it include channelling? Remote Viewing? Body Scanning and Energy Work? And when and why do these distinctions matter?

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- Differentiating Direct Interspecies Communication from Other Intuitive Modalities

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Nancy Windheart, M.J. Barrett

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Attend this session:    I am a life long student of plant and animal communication and a reiki master.  I am excited to learn and share in this session.  Sharon Swanick

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Jude Abrams: Much gratitude for this opportunity to honour all our relations and learn more about the indigenous way of ceremony as a practise of walking in the world in a harmony with all beings.

Mary  Trachsel: eager to learn more about IIC

Marianne Scheiler. I am learning skills to become an animal communicator. Looking forward to this topic.

I would be honoured to attend this section and to offer my experiences.
Margaret Churchill
Animal Reiki Master

Inga Hamilton, PhD sculptor researching the 'things animals make' wanting to communicate with animal makers so that they might be heard, rather than speak for them. Also Reiki 2, EFT / TAT Healer, Clairsentient/voyant/audient/cogniscent, Remote viewer.

Gail Simmons is my name.  I am an animal communicator.

My name is Cécile Demer, I am an animal communication student. So honoured to be part of this Symposium.

Diane Imabeppu. I am a "Magic Finder" (Pediatric and Mental Health Occupational Therapist and Integrative Health Practitioner). I use Soul Communication readily in my therapy practice, as well as my intuitive energy medicine practice.

Chara Armon, scholar, student of energy medicine and transformative spiritual practices, and practitioner of plant communication

Maia Kincaid, animal communicator/teacher I would be delighted to participate in this discussion. Distinguishing the activity involved, ie communication versus intuition, being psychic, remote travel and scanning can make a tremendous difference in the experience of the communicator while communicating (and especially for the animal) in addition to determining clarity and ease during the interaction.

Valerie brunissen animal communicator quantic healer

Kristin Hand - very interested in this topic.  A beginning animal communicator, but very involved in other spiritual modalities.

Paula Szocik, Reiki Master, lover of animals/plants/earth/sea--all of nature. I am a novice animal communicator and a great fan of Nancy Windheart!

Kari Lesick - animal/nature communicator, light worker, energy healing practitioner, Hakomi student, overall lover of life's grand adventures.

Nancy Rosnes - excited to learn more

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Chara Armon

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This session will bring together those who are interested in doing research with service animals.

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- Interspecies Communication and Service Dogs: 4 Case Studies
- A Mixed Methods Study of Telepathic Interspecies Communication with Therapeutic Riding Horses and Their Recovering Wounded Veteran Partners

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Liz Murdoch, MA International Education & Communication, Animal Communicator with extensive experience working with service dogs as part of Animal Assisted Therapy team and as an Interspecies Communicator.

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Wanda Buckner
Janet Gunderson

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IIC and Veterinary Practice

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To discuss the role IIC can play in supporting Veterinarians in the provision of medical care and facilitate healing in animal patients.

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Maia Kincaid Ph.D. I would enjoy facilitating this room as an animal communicator and teacher I have been working with veterinarians for many years. Veterinarians are natural animal communicators. Communicating with animals offers many possibilities for veterinarians and their beloved animal patients.

Barbara Shor, DVM. I would be happy to co-facilitate this session. I am a retired veterinarian and animal communicator. I have waited a long time for the day when veterinarians acknowledge the legitimacy of animal communication and can use it in their practice!

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Natalia Custodio
LaShelle Easton, DVM
Romain Brasseau, Change management
Ronan Colliou
Ricardo Gare
Keao Love
Amy Hudnall
Sue Stopforth
Wyner Worsthorne- if possible to attend more than one session.
Anita Vallala
Patrice Carbaugh, DVM
Lolita Soriano
Nina Barresi
Miranda Alcott, MA

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Avantika Mathur

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IIC in Animal Shelters

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IIC, Ontological Orientations & Love

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How to scientifically study IIC

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Shifting The Paradigm Using IIC

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This session is an invitation to brainstorm about scientific methods that we can use to collect repeatable IIC data that can be analyzed. What are some of the tools we can borrow from different scientific disciplines? What are some of the challenges we face, and how can we overcome those challenges?

Are you an animal communicator or a scientist interested in talking about this, but can not make it to this breakout session (because let's face it, there are many awesome breakout sessions)? If so, please feel free to contact me at ipekkulahci@yahoo.com to talk more.

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What do the experiences of IIC suggest about the nature of being? What is the basis of IIC? Meaning, what are the mechanisms that allow IIC to occur? What is the relationship of IIC experiences to love? How do IIC experiences conflict with the dominant cultural ontologies of individualism? And how might these conflicts be philosophically resolved? Does interspecies love differ from human to human love? What are the educational implications?

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Ipek Kulahci. I have a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a focus on animal behavior and cognition. I have been conducting scientific research since I was 12, and would love to collaborate with fellow scientists and animal communicators.

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Dušan Janák
Maia Kincaid, I would love to attend but may be in another session.
Anita Vallala
Sarah Abbott
Carmen Whitehead
Agrita Zunna
Viktoria Hinz, I would love to be a part of this but will be in another room. Would love to be kept in the loop!

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Denise Nestel

(Note from Maia Kincaid - In my classes we frequently talk with shelter animals. We have learned so much from them and they have expressed gratitude for being heard, understood and known and often it has helped them transform their situations.)

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Estella Kuchta - Happy to relinquish this role if someone else wants to facilitate!

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Brainstorm how we can access IIC to shift mainstream understanding of non human animals. The intention is for this new awareness to change human behavior towards non human animals, including the ways we currently harm and exploit them. This will not only improve conditions for non human animals, it will allow humans to experience greater love and compassion. Please join us with an open mind and a loving heart!

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Discuss how making IIC available to shelter animals could benefit the animals, the shelter staff and improve the efficiency and economics of the shelter. Could IIC reduce fear and stress at intake and improve the animals' well-being while in the shelter? Could IIC shorten length of stay for some animals? Could IIC facilitate adoptions? If so, how may the improvements to the animals' well-being positively impact the staff and the shelters?

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I am eager to hear from anyone with experience providing IIC to shelter animals; anyone interested in reducing fear and stress in shelter animals; anyone interested in facilitating adoption of shelter animals; and anyone who believes that shelter animals ought to have a voice.  I (Denise Nestel) am interested in collaborating on a video / webinar on this topic. If this interests you but you cannot join this breakout, please contact me directly at the email on my bio dnestel@outlook.com.

I would be delighted to connect with you. This is Maia Kincaid, maiakincaid@gmail.com animalcommunicationworld.com animalcommunicationschool.com
In my classes we frequently talk with shelter animals. We have learned so much from them and they have expressed gratitude for being heard, understood and known and often it has helped them transform their situations.

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Jill Lauri

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Christine Noble Seller - I'm also interested in supporting Wildlife Rescues/ Sanctuaries with IIC - in addition to Animal Shelters/ Rescues - with a global association or network (such as SARA: Shelter Animal Reiki Association). I have provided pro bono IIC to Animal Rescue for close to a decade and Wildlife for two years.

Lynne Shannon - I have been involved in using IIC to assist in homing of rescue animals and would love to deepen my work in this arena.
Allison Penny

Gail Lash, PhD - I work with AZA accredited zoos and aquariums (www.aza.org) - would love our conversation to include how to use IIC with these wild animals under human care, and in conservation release programs. Love to talk with you Denise on video/webinar that might help AZA to use IIC.

Tammy Tocheniuk-As a professional IIC, I have assisted guardians with their newly adopted or fostered animals, some who had issues from their stay at the shelter, or some who were confused as to why they were there. I have found that the communication extending in both directions-to the human from the animal for clarity and from me to the animal to explain the situation and expectations of the human for the animal, benefit all involved. It is a type of mediation in a sense, as both human and animal are given the opportunity to speak and to listen.

Aliki St. Denis
I am very interested in hearing how IIC has been used to assist animals in shelters and rehab facilities. Thank you for offering this breakout room!

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Estella Kuchta - I'm an eco-educator and love researcher. My co-authored book, Ecologizing Education (with Sean Blenkinsop) is forthcoming from Cornell UP.

Heidy Hu. I am a student researcher conducting research of IIC for my master thesis in philosophy. I am interested in this topic but may not be able to join right away.

Robin Voisey - Veterinary Technician, Animal Communicator, Animal Reiki Practitioner, Equine Assisted Therapy

Sharon Swanick - Lifelong animal and plant communication student, reiki master, and professional ventriloquist storyteller

Jen Kelly

Jelena Misevski - Former student and researcher of IIC, interested in love and ontological studies and expansion. Thank you for facilitating.

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Heidy Hu. This is a great topic!
Hilary Van Welter

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Ipek Kulahci

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IIC communicating with animals near and/or after death

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The intention of this session is to discuss IIC in the context of communicating with animals who are nearing the end of their lives and/or after they have died. Communicating with animals who are deceased adds an additional nuance to the IIC exploration at this conference because it also raises the question as to whether consciousness survives death. Potential discussion topics:  a) What prompted your interest in this breakout session? Do you have any personal experience with this topic? If so, how did that experience affect you? b) How might communicating with animals at the end of their lives and/or after death be of service to the animals we live with and/or the humans who love them? c) Are there other contexts where communicating with dying animals could be of service to them or society? d) Do you believe it is possible to communicate with animals who have died?  e) What are potential IIC research opportunities in the area of end-of-life and/or after death?

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Cathy Chenard - but I would be very happy to have someone else serve in this role

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Sue Fager; I would like to participate in this session--I think it is such an important part of the journey we take together when we share our lives with companions.

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Sue Fager; I would like to participate in this session--I think it is such an important part of the journey we take together when we share our lives with companions.

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Rebecca Anweiler; I'd like to be part of this session and the first one I chose has gotten huge, so I'm joining here in hopes that some others will too to make this deep conversation happen. It's one of the things that drove an art installation I made around it.

Christine Noble Seller - I hope to pop in here too - going to room #7 first.

Estela Baró - I would like to attend this session too

Jackie Barbour

Heidy Hu. I think it's so important to communicate with animals in all of their life stages and we're able to do that. They are more connected to the spiritual realm.

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Quantum Physics and IIC

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To discuss the place of quantum physics and animal communication.

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Cath Hopkins

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Such an awesome topic! I would have loved to attend but I will be facilitating another session. (Ipek Kulahci)

Great idea! Also attending another session (Christine Noble Seller)

Heidy Hu. Great topic. (may not be able to attend).

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Heidy Hu. I am a philosophy student interested to know what others think that why IIC is important.

Sharon Swanick.  I am a lifelong animal and plant communication student and reiki master. I would like to learn and share and connect with others on IIC.

Véronique Servais. I am an anthropologist working on human-animal communication

Anita Vallala

Bernardo Couto Soares. I am an anthropology master student currently conducting research about cats and following them within the context of animal shelters.

Jen Kelly (if my other choice doesn't go ahead due to no facilitator).

Jackie Barbour - I'm very excited to learn more about IIC.

Beth Ritchie - Human-Animal Interaction student interested in learning more about IIC

Annette Hadaway

Amanda Plante

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Aloha, 30 years experience in the ocean, thousands of hours living with dolphins and whales, mainly humpbacks, in the wild. Treated approx 30,000 clients in the water using treatment developed with cetaceans, "to allow the physical body to hold higher levels of Light", children walk when the doctors say they never will, dying children doctors say the medication will kill if the disease does not - who do not die, amazing results. Taught protocol to over 500 therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, in Hawaii, Tonga, the Bahamas and French Polynesia. Trained, Certified Whaleswim Guide (IFAW). Certified Marine Mammal Naturalist, Licensed therapist, born intuitive. Author "Kissing Whales Healing Dolphins", www.aquacranial.com.(Both need updating but gives someone the basic idea.) Look forward to learning more about research methods. Mahalo for the opportunity.

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I would love to attend this session but may only be there for the second half. Opening my heart to humpback whales has led me on an ever-deepening journey to reconnect humans to the rest of nature and their own natures in quest of the Wholly Whale.

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I would love to attend this session but may only be there for the second half. Opening my heart to humpback whales has led me on an ever-deepening journey to reconnect humans to the rest of nature and their own natures in quest of the Wholly Whale.

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I know there are protocols and rights regarding knowledge ‘gifted by the ancestors’ in traditional indigenous communities. Perhaps there may be an ethical way of preserving the integrity of IIC vis-à-vis the knowledge gifted by other species to animal interpreters.

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I would love to engage in this conversation--I have a fair amount of experience supporting people and their companions with end of life discussions/experiences.