​Athena Meriwether is a published author, counselor and workshop facilitator. She has spent 3 decades studying healing techniques including transformational bodywork, holotropic breathing, family constellation work, shamanic journeying and voice dialog therapy. Athena left a Midwestern university in the 1980s where she was studying biology to travel in Polynesia for 10 years. 

In addition to facilitating workshops, Athena currently practices listening with court-mandated clients. She is fascinated by the transformational power of the poetic imagination and by the healing impulse of storytelling and art.