Red Lodge: Our Faculty
Debbie Mast, RN MSN has been a qualified Sweet Medicine SunDance instructor for 16 years, and incorporates wisdom from both western medicine and shamanic traditions in her international work as a therapist and healer. She is co-leader of the Flowering Tree Lodge in Michigan and the founder of the Women's Hoop, a ceremonial group for women now in its 16th year. Her work is inspired by her vision of women and men working together to recreate the world.
Janneke Koole is a qualified Sweet Medicine SunDance teacher who has taught internationally for over 16 years. She was on the first Red Lodge Longhouse Teaching Team and helped to sculpt the curriculum for the current program. Janneke is the Lineage Advocate and Year 1 teacher in the mother Red Lodge program in Arizona. She brings to Michigan enthusiasm, expertise and a dedication to the blossoming of self-knowledge in all SMSD students.
Debra Laughin has studied the Sweet Medicine SunDance teachings for over 16 years, and has taught them for the past 12 years. Her passion for knowledge that works has led her on many life adventures and shaped her unique expression of these teachings.