About Numina
~ The Numina Mission is to create safe and sacred womens circle within which women can explore and nurture their deepest selves. ~
The Latin word numina is the plural of the word numen, which means presence of the divine. Numina's programs seek to cultivate the numinous; that is, to create space in which women are continually aware of numina, the manifold expressions of the divine presence that beckon for our attention.
Numina encourages women to claim their unique gifts and move from the inner journey toward the outward journey of service to others. This intentional journey enables the development of deep, lasting and supportive friendships.
Board of Directors:
Chair - Patty Smith Secretary Treasurer - Diane Davis
Founders
Betsy Fuller has a background of leadership in church, aging services, state government and private non-profits. Currently, she is pursuing energy work...and enjoying her grandchildren.
Carol King is a community developer, entrepreneur and a principal of Carol King and Associates. She is a founder of the Bank of Asheville and has owned and operated a number of small businesses.
Pam Noble
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a retired psychotherapist who has led groups for over thirty years. She is a vision quest guide for WomanQuest and is passionate about creating rites of passage for women in the natural world. Pam is the "birth mother" of the Numina Program.
Patty Smith is a financial advisor and consultant. She has worked with women in the worlds of education and sports. Her primary interests today are around opening women to their spirituality and their use of money.
Betsy Willis , a contemplative crone, rocks on her porch high on a mountain near Boone, NC. Her background is in education but her claim to fame is in clowning. She finds she can now play without the makeup, especially in her classes at the local jail.
Current Facilitators
Judith Phoenix is a social worker. Whenever time allows Judith will be found hiking and camping in the southwest with her companion dog, Tee. She is an advocate of progressive social and environmental policies.
Trinja Rogers hails from Baltimore by way of Atlanta. She spends her days as a team leader in Home Health at Appalachian Regional Health System in Boone, NC. In her off time, she’s a present day Ginger Rogers who wants to dance her way through life.
Karen Hamilton is a proponent of the importance of small groups and has seen their value in her own life. She is a poet, newly turned to writing fiction. She enjoys her roles of mother and wife dividing her time between Charlotte and Asheville. She does a mean 'Electric Slide'.
About the Numina Logo
The founders developed the Numina logo as a woman journeying to the center of herself which is also the journey to the center of the universe. She is called Double Helix woman after the model upon which the program is based, a model representing the journey inward to center and the journey outward to service. Using the Seven principles for Transformation that arose out of our personal mission statements and that correspond to the seven energy centers in the body or the chakras, the founders developed a curriculum based on experiential, body-oriented activities. Beginning with the root chakra, the Numina principles are:
Abundance, Empowerment, Integration, Connectedness, Delight, Service, Renewal
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