Educational Background Grosse Pointe High, Grosse Pointe, Michigan Lake Forest High, Lake Forest, Illinois Northern Illinois University School of Nursing Continuing Education, Graduate Level Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Illinois Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, Illinois University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Ohio State University, Center for Continuing Education Sherry Hansen Steiger In addition to the above universities, Sherry has taken courses from other colleges and institutions around the country - specializing in such areas as: communication and counseling skills, leadership training, community action facilitation, group dynamics, values clarification, health and medicine, healing, wellness and many therapies. Sherry has studied therapies and disciplines in many healing techniques, including: tai chi, meditation, yoga, fasting, shiatsu, accupuncture, various massage techniques, nutrition, gestalt, Native American medicine, herbs, homeopathy, the laying on of hands, prayer, visualization, psychic healing, color therapy, art therapy, music therapy, biomagnetic healing, radionics, the Edgar Cayce remedies, hand reflexology, kidesiology, karate and natural childbirth techniques. Achievements In the 1960s, Sherry co-created and produced the highly acclaimed Celebrate Life multi-media awareness program which was performed around the country for colleges, businesses, organizations and churches. She owns a national reputation as a resource consultant and speaker in the field of Stress Management as well as in many other areas in her spectrum of interests. Sherry has addressed audiences and corporate groups from coast to coast and has been the keynote speaker for many national corporations and governmental groups such as The Oklahoma Oil Marketing Association, the State Board of Education for New Jersey, the U.S. Naval Officers, the Office of Family Education, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and many health fairs and expos throughout the United States. For over 30 years, Sherry has actively studied the dynamic interaction between the body, mind and spirit in health-related matters as well as the effects of environment and technology on health and wellness. Her broad nursing experience in seventeen hospitals include such varied institutions as Lake Forest Hospital where even a wine list is provided to patients with their menu selections; to the harsher realities of clinical training in mental hospitals like Elgin State and Dixon State in Illinois. In addition to serving on many Boards of Directors and Advisors in other health and wellness centers, in 1972 Sherry founded one of the earliest nonprofit schools dealing with new approaches to healing and learning. Co-authoring a proposal to the U.S. government, she received a difficult to get status as a 501-C3 in all three areas of education, health and medicine and religion for The Butterfly Center for Transformation. Eventually serving on the Board of Sherry's school were such notables as one of Sherry's former professors, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. In the late 1970s, Sherry was invited to serve as a member of the original Board of Directors for a Wellness Center, consisting of health professionals and M.D.s from the Institutes of Health, Education and Welfare in Bethesda, Maryland. The group met monthly in the Washington D.C. area for meetings and retreats for the sole purpose of exploring stress and disease, their causes and roots, and to evaluate varieties of healing techniques and their efficacy in order to create this new concept in medicine and healing: a Wellness Center. The many alternative therapies researched and studied led to the 1992 official creation of The Office of Alternative Medicine under the Institutes of Health, Education and Welfare in Bethesda, Maryland. The purpose of the Office is to re-examine and document research into all alternative therapies to determine their effectiveness and safety. Sherry has rooted her extensive and varied studies with equally versatile application in many other areas as well. She has worked with thousands in settings ranging from community work, inner-city thetto, to migrants, crisis and family counseling. Her work singled her out for personal selection by many Native American Medicine shamen of the tribes Shoshone, Cherokee, Hopi and Apache to study Native American Medicine ways. On staff at The Lutheran School of Theology in the late 1960's, Sherry coordinated conferences and activities for both the seminary and the community in the south side of Chicago. In creating and initiating various programs, Sherry worked with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Reddick, the famed attorney Kunsler of the Chicago Seven trials and the Black Panthers, among others. Sherry co-ordinated one of the first Black Awareness Week programs and held it at the seminary facilities for the entire community. In addition to creating many other programs, Sherry pioneered the use of surplus, damaged or dated foods or goods to be donated to the poor. Her concept brought about food, clothing and furniture donations for the under-privileged on the south side of Chicago as well as many other areas of the United States. The successful integration of the new multi-million dollar seminary, consisting mainly of whites, into the ghetto area of the south side of Chicago, was attributed to Sherry's innovative programs by the school's business manager and president. At the State University of New York, Stony Brook, Sherry served as associate teacher and counselor in the early 1970's. Sherrry worked with the H.E.P. program created to break the migrant cycle through education. Although Long Island had many mgrant workers, most of the kids came from all over the country into the program; the highest percentage of them being either hispanic or black. Sherry initiated many programs, including extra-curricular activities, college student tutoring and established extra incentive activities outside of the classroom that revolved around each student's personal interest, such as karate, music, etc. Students could only participate if they achieved certain grade averages or improved markedly in their classroom studies and behavior. Sherry developed and taught classes in self-understanding and inter-cultural understanding and improvement - stressing the celebration of likeness as well as differences. She planned and co-ordinated events including special Mexican and Black ethnic story telling, ethnic meals at ethnic holiday times where students were to plan, purchase (with University funding) and prepare and serve a festive event meal representing their culture for the other students. Sherry created and developed a Cultural Awareness Program for the students' enrichment to Broadway, Off Broadway theater, concerts, circus, wilderness camping, etc. All of these programs, as well as the Counseling Appraisal and Evaluation - Placement Tests and Guidelines created by Sherry were so successful that representatives from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare spent ten days observing and evaluating the overall program. Sherry's concepts and evaluation techniques were adopted for all H.E.P. programs throughout the United States. Also in the early 1970's, Sherry taught classes and served as counselor and community worker at the world's largest (at that time) enclosed shopping center at Smithtown, Long Island, New York. The program was through SmithHaven Ministries, an ecumenical outreach, specializing in crisis and family counseling. Sherry worked with runaway teens, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide attempts and abused teens, children and women. Sherry developed and coordinated special activities such as teen educational retreats and workshops, community meals (coordinating donated food and clothing) for runaways and the homeless. Sherry also worked with art, music and drama therapy as well as special services such as medical, psychological, educational and vocational, in addition to teaching special classes she developed, such as the highly successful On Being a Woman. Open to only teenage girls at first, her class was in such great demand that she eventually adapted the class and taught it to women of all ages, then developed and taught On Being a Person for both genders of all ages. Among Sherry's achievements, she has been honored with the following: · The World Who's Who of Women, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England · Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, National Reference Institute · Who's Who In Medicine and Healthcare, Marquis Who's Who · 2,000 Notable American Women, American Biographical Institute · Five Hundred Leaders of Influence -Twentieth Century Achievement Award (on permanent display in the U.S. Library of Congress) · International Woman of the Year, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England · Who's Who of Professional and Business Women Media In addition to these and many other community and health professional jobs, Sherry is experienced in many aspects of the media. A former magazine editor, director and writer for many advertising agencies, as well as a model, actress and television and motion picture producer. In advertising, Sherry wrote over a thousand ads that were used for print (brochure, newspaper, magazine, logos) as well as wrote commercials for radio and television, some of which she directed. Sherry worked with a long list of stars for concerts and promotions, including such notables as John Denver, Neil Diamond, the Moody Blues, Lou Rawls, Prince, Melba Moore and many others. As a model, she appeared in such publications as Family Circle, Redbook and Woman's Day. In 1979, Sherry appeared in the highest rated television movie of the year, Amusement Park with Mike Connors, Louis Gossett, Jr., Beau Bridges and Martin Landau. More recently, she appeared in Desert Rats, directed by the Wonder Year's Ken Topolsky and The Highway Man starring Sam Jones and Jocko. A published author, Sherry is the author, co-author of numerous magazine articles and over 26 books. In recent years, Sherry and her husband Brad lecture together internationally. They have appeared on many talk shows around the country including The Joan Rivers Show. A number of their books have been featured on Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, Hollywood Insider, USA Network, HBO Specials. They have each as well as together served as consultants for such television shows as Sightings and Unsolved Mysteries. Bibliography for Sherry Hansen Steiger 1. Seasons of the Soul. Phoenix, AZ: Timewalker Productions, 1987. Lakeville, MN: Galde Press, 1995. 2. The Fellowship: Spiritual Contact Between Humans and Outer Space Beings by Brad Steiger (special editing by Sherry Hansen). New York: Doubleday, 1988. New York: Ballantine/Ivy, 1989. German edition: Zweitausendeins, 1991. Japanese edition, 1992. 3. The UFO Abductors by Brad Steiger (special research by Sherry Hansen Steiger). New York: Berkley, 1988. 4.The Philadelphia Experiment and Other UFO Conspiracies (with Brad Steiger and Alfred Bielek). New Brunswick, NJ: Inner Light, 1990. 5. Hollywood and the Supernatural (with Brad Steiger). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. New York: Berkley, 1992. 6. Demon Deaths (with Brad Steiger). New York: Berkley, 1991. 7. Indian Wisdom and Its Guiding Power (with Brad Steiger). West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1991. 8. Mystical Legends of the Shamans (with Brad Steiger). New Brunswick, NJ: Inner Light, 1991. 9.Montezuma's Serpent and Other True Supernatural Tales of the Southwest (with Brad Steiger). New York: Paragon House, 1992. 10. Undying Love (with Brad Steiger). New York: Berkley, 1992. 11. The Teaching Power of Dreams (with Brad Steiger). West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1992. 12. Starborn (with Brad Steiger). New York: Berkley, 1992. 13. Strange Powers of Pets (with Brad Steiger). New York: Donald Fine, 1992. New York: Berkley, 1993. UK Edition: Headline Books, 1993. 14. Super Scientists of Ancient Atlantis and Other Unknown Worlds (with Brad Steiger). New Brunswick, NJ: Inner Light, 1993. 15. Amazing Moms (with Brad Steiger). New York: Signet, 1994. 16. The Rainbow Conspiracy (with Brad Steiger). New York: Kensington/Pinnacle, 1994. Reissued by Kensington/Citadel in 2001 as UFOs Are Here! 17. More Strange Powers of Pets (with Brad). New York: Donald Fine, 1994. 18. Angels Over Their Shoulders: Children's Encounters with Heavenly Beings (with Brad). New York: Fawcett/Columbine, 1995. Spanish Edition: Selector, 2002, 2006. 19. Children of the Light (with Brad). New York: Signet, 1995. 20. Mysteries of Animal Intelligence (with Brad). New York: Tor Books, 1995. Reissued by Tor/Amazon, 2007. 21. Mother Mary Speaks to Us (with Brad). New York: Penguin, 1996. New York: Signet, 1997. 22. Power of Prayer to Heal and Transform Your Life. New York: Signet, 1997. New York: NAL Trade, 2003. 23. Angels Around the World (with Brad). New York: Random House, 1996. 24. He Walks with Me: True Encounters with Jesus (with Brad). New York: Signet, 1998. 25. UFO Odyssey (with Brad). New York: Ballantine, 1999. 26. Animal Miracles (with Brad). Holbrook, MA: Adams Media, 1999. 27. Christmas Miracles (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2001. 28. Dog Miracles (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2001. 29. Face to Face with the Unknown: Young Peoples Encounters with the Unexplained. New York: Tor Books, 2001. 30. Miracles of a Mother's Love (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2002. 31. Baby Miracles (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2003. Jakarta, Indonesia: BIP Gramedia, 2006. 32. The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and the Unexplained/ Three Volumes (with Brad). Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2003. 33. Cat Miracles (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2003. 33. Horse Miracles (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2004. 35. Miracles of Healing (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2004. 36. Pet Miracles (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2005. 37. Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier (with Brad). Detroit: Visible Ink, 2006. 38. Puppy Miracles (with Brad). Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2006.         .