My current work reflects a pattern of four different and interwoven patterns of teaching: individual development work, women's group process work, organisation development work and work with systems of meaning. All of the current work flows in the same direction, that is to say towards hope and agency for social justice, power equity between humans and ecological sustainability in our interdependent world .

The curriculum on this website aspires to embody bell hooks’ notions of education as the practice of freedom. All of our teachers share these beautifully articulated beliefs.

“Learning is a place where paradise can be created…In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom “[1]

In my own life as a feminist and a pacifist, I strive to embody the ethical practice of female authority wherever I am. Much of my work with women is about strengthening this practice. My two great teachers, Joyce and John Weir , passed their Self-differentiation practice on to me and their daughter ,Wendy Weir, when they retired. I strive to make their best practices accessible to all through each program I teach. Bowing to my teachers, I offer this work in the service of the good of the whole.

The curriculum is made up of the following kinds of offerings:
     · Retreats, Workshops and Seminars,
     · Consultations with Individuals, Work Teams and Organisations
     · Experiential Astrology Classes and Consultations
     · Hope Springs Institute Development

Individual Development Programs:
     · WomensWay Annual Retreat    (see Womens-Way.com)
     · MerrillWeir Associates : Perspectives on Self Differentiation        Programs
     · MerrillWeir Associates : Percept Language and Orientation Training        Programs     (see MerrillWeir.com)
For women:
     · Leading Locally, Working Globally
     · Steering Towards Peace
     · Experiential Astrology Seminars
                                                               · Embodying Female Authority:
                                                                 A new Women's Way Program in Maine. (See Programs)

For men and women:
     · Patterns of Fate.com
     · Percept Orientation and Language learning Laboratories

[1] bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994, Routledge,London. P207. by permission copyright.com