Freedom Lodge People

FREEDOM LODGE BOARD MEMBERS

Ruby Gibson, Th.M., Co-Founder/President/Secretary

Celeste Gibson, CPA, Treasurer

FREEDOM LODGE ADMINISTRATION

Director: Ruby Gibson, Th.M.

Accountant: Celeste Gibson, CPA

EDUCATIONAL TEAM

Primary Trainer: Ruby Gibson, Th.M.

Support Trainers: Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed., Megan Eggers, M.A., Pam Jones-Gonzales, LMT, Barb Brown, M.A.

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. David Grand

Dr. Robert Scaer

Dr. Edward Tick

Staff and Board Member Profiles

Ruby Gibson, Th.M., LMT, is an international educator, author and Certified Somatic Therapist in practice for thirty years. Ruby developed the healing modality, Somatic Archaeology™, and provides individual therapy, workshops and training programs for healing intergenerational patterns of trauma, loss, and grief nationwide. She is the author of My Body, My Earth, The Practice of Somatic Archaeology™ and developer of Generational Brainspotting. Ms. Gibson’s educational background includes a degree in Theology and Transformational Psychology, a master class in War and The Soul with Dr. Edward Tick, Brainspotting™ trainings with Dr. David Grand and Lisa Schwarz, M.A., Indigenous cultural healing traditions/rituals, aromatherapy and bodywork. Ruby brings her unique perspective to her current doctoral research and studies on the impact of intergenerational trauma and kincentric healing models at Holos University. With over 30 years of field service, the focus of Ruby’s work has been helping children and adults reconcile generational suffering through Somatic Archaeology™. Ms. Gibson is the President and Co-Founder of Freedom Lodge, former Director of the Colorado School of Healing Arts, and mother of three beautiful children.

Advisory Board Profiles

David Grand, LCSW, Ph.D., Developer of Brainspotting, is a psychotherapist, writer, lecturer, performance coach and humanitarian famous for the discovery and development of the internationally acclaimed Brainspotting method. Dr. Grand is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a PhD from International University, and is renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries and advancements in the arenas of healing trauma and enhancing performance and creativity. His Brainspotting method and BioLateral Sound are now used by thousands of therapists on every continent seeking to break through the limitations of talk therapy. Dr. Grand is the author of the ground breaking Emotional Healing at Warp Speed (Random House, 2001) and has been interviewed on CNN, NBC, Nightline, the Jane Pauley Show, and NBC Extra and featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Golf Digest and Newsday for his enormous success in healing victims of trauma and curing the heretofore virtually untreatable sports affliction called the “Yips”. The PBS documentary, Depression: Out of the Shadows, included Dr. Grand as a featured expert and won a 2008 Peabody Award. www.brainspotting.pro

Robert Scaer, M.D., received his B.A. in Psychology, and his M.D. at the University of Rochester. He is Board Certified in Neurology, and has been in practice for 33 years, twenty of those as Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at the Mapleton Center in Boulder, CO. His primary areas of interest and expertise have been in the fields of brain injury and chronic pain, and more recently in the study of traumatic stress and its role in physical symptoms and diseases. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on these topics. He published a book in 2001, The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease, presenting a new theory of dissociation and its role in many diseases. A second book, The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency, released in July, 2005, explores the insidious spectrum of culturally-based trauma that shapes our lives, and how transformation and healing may still take place. He is currently retired from clinical medical practice, and continues to pursue a career in writing and lecturing. www.traumasoma.com

Dr. Edward Tick, author of the groundbreaking book War and the Soul and founder of Soldier’s Heart, is a practicing psychotherapist specializing in veterans with PTSD. Ed received his master’s in psychology from Goddard College, Vermont and his doctorate in communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Ed has been in private psychotherapy practice since 1975 and began focusing on veteran’s issues in 1979. His pioneering work with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or, in his words, ‘loss of the soul’, is the basis for his recent book War and the Soul. He continues his healing work with veterans and other trauma survivors with innovative yet time-honored methods. Ed has extensively studied both classical Greek and Native American traditions and successfully integrates their methods into modern clinical work. A widely published writer, he is also the author of “The Golden Tortoise: Journeys in Viet Nam”, “Sacred Mountain: Encounters of the Vietnam Beast”, and “The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine”. www.soldiersheart.net