Rev. Barbara Kaufmann is an award-winning writer and poet who has been a healer as long as she can remember. First a nurse, then a minster and trained shaman, she works part-time in private-duty nursing and part-time as a spiritual coach and writer who writes “to simply change the world.” She just completed writing a curriculum called “Words and Violence” with Voices Education Project, a humanitarian organization and pedagogical institute with a global constituency. The curriculum can be downloaded free at voiceseducation.org. Barbara’s website is onewordsmith.com.