"The first side of the Love is when The Divine breathes all the creation into existence and the second part of the Love is the return, in which the creature breathes existence back into The Divine. "
~ Sidi Muhammad












I am a graduate Practitioner of Conscious Healing, an ordained Minister of The Rock Foundation, and an appointed Sufi Teacher in the Shadhuliyya Way. I'm also a certified mediator with additional experience in basic conflict resolution, resolving conflict in work groups, mediating across cultures and Quaker- based consensus facilitation. My BS is in Business Management and Organizational Communication, and I am pursuing an MA in Applied Theology.

My spiritual studies and affiliations include the following traditions: Sufism, Judaism, Unitarian Universalism, Neo-Paganism and Goddess Worship, New Age Teachings including Mer-Ka-Ba and Flower of Life, and New Thought Christianity as taught locally at Living Enrichment Center.

I first held space for counseling clients and began to craft worship services in the mid-eighties. In the early nineties, I began to more fully explore the energetics of group process, group ritual, and conflict resolution, and to work with my first mediation clients

You might find it interesting to follow the links below for more information about some of the places where I’ve received training.

I enjoy counseling and healing clients who are ready to transcend fear, be gentle with themselves, and come into full power and wisdom in their life's expression. Mediation clients especially inspire me when they have a strong desire to reconcile relationships and/or resolve conflict in a way that serves all parties’ highest good. I like working with groups whose members seek to honor their own limits while relating in a kind and generous way with one another.

I am comfortable with most faiths and genders, orientations, and majority or minority status. I celebrate and have a well- educated awareness of many “nontraditional” genders, sexualities, and relationship and family arrangements. I’m happy to officiate weddings, births, funerals and other rites of passage that honor the true expression of love in your family, whether traditional or innovative in design.

Please call (503) 253-3348 to schedule an appointment.

Some of My Training

Sufism, spiritual counseling, energy healing

Training Organization Web Sites

School of Conscious Healing
The Jaffe Institute
Flower of Life
Living Enrichment Institute
www.oneloveheals.com
www.jaffeinstitute.org
www.floweroflife.org/toverview1.htm
www.lecworld.org
Peer Counseling
Oberlin College www.oberlin.edu
Conflict Resolution, Interpersonal and
Organizational Communication, Facilitation
Confluence
Carolyn Estes/ Alpha Farm
Marylhurst University
Portland Community College
www.confluencecenter.com/training.html
www.casco.net/~alpha/ai-info.html
www.marylhurst.edu/home.html
http://spot.pcc.edu/academ/vapa/sp.html

Please contact me for more information or to schedule an appointment.

Shams Cohen
Healing, Counseling, Mediation and Ministry
(503) 253-3348

soulemergence@earthlink.net