 Karin
Whitney Cooke RN, CCRC (co-founder of Kokolulu) has been
involved
in research, both allopathic medicine as well as CAM (complementary and
alternative medicine) for the last 25 years of her career. She was the Research Coordinator at North Hawaii Community Hospital, on The Big Island of Hawaii for six years. Her passion and studies for over 30 years have been in the realm of mind/body/Spirit healing. This has resulted in a firm knowledge base of the link between negative emotions, toxins, and disease, and ways to overcome those negative forces. Karin has been a nutritional consultant/wellness coach for over twenty-five years and uses her knowledge of both the western medicine and the alternative models to blend them in an integrative approach. With her intuitive depth of inner understanding, spatial thinking and psychic sensitivity, she can easily clear away distractions to pinpoint those areas in need of transforming. She is committed to sharing with others, the tools for enjoying a more spiritually connected, relaxed lifestyle. Karin is a Reiki Master and enjoys sharing this healing modality in individual treatments as well as in group trainings. Karin is NADA (National Acupuncture Detox Association) certified.
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 Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D. our dear
friend,
colleague, and fellow staff member is a scientist who has received
international recognition for her pioneering research in medicine and
psychology. A faculty member for 11 years at Southwestern Medical
School, she is currently a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook
Institute, San Francisco. She also co-chaired the mind/body
interventions ad hoc advisory panel and the Research Technologies
Conference of the Office of Alternative Medicine, and was a member of
the Advisory Board, Unconventional Cancer Treatments Study Group,
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. She is a research
consultant and advisor to foundations. She also provides training in
the use of mind/body therapies for health care professionals in Europe,
Japan, Argentina, and to refugees in Kosova and Macedonia. She has authored over 100 papers and five books. Imagery in Healing is critically acclaimed as a classic in the field of mind/body studies, and Woman as Healer is described as a ground breaking work, surveying the activities of women from prehistoric times to the present. Rituals of Healing is a primer on the use of creative therapies for health and medicine, and won the Book of the Year Award from the American Nursing Association. Her new book, Lightning at the Gate, the story of her personal healing journey, was published in 2001. Her awards include Healer of the Year, given by the Nurse Healers' Cooperative, the Gardner Murphy Scholar Award, and the Moncrieff Award for Burn Research. In April of 2001, she was featured in Time Magazine as one of the six innovators of alternative and complementary medicine for the coming century. Dr. Achterberg is past president of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, She was Senior Editor for Alternative Therapies, a peer-reviewed medical journal with an international circulation. Her current research is at North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea, Hawaii with the responsibility to study prayer and healing.. Jeanne is often here at KoKoLuLu offering seminars, working on new books and articles, cooking, or just relaxing in our healing environment with our golden retrievers. She is a consultant and spiritual treatment advisor to both Karin and Lew and the programs at KoKoLuLu. Please visit Jeanne's web site: www.jeanneachterberg.com.  Nancy
Webster our dear friend and trusted spiritual leader serves
as our
web master and designed our first web site. She provides guidance to
KoKoLuLu in the area of energy healing, nutritional consulting,
spiritual awareness and is a skilled EFT practitioner and Reiki Master.
Nan, along with her husband Dick, owns a successful software development and web design company, Copernicus Software www.copernicus.com. She enjoys running, web hosting, playing the piano and practicing Reiki and EFT.  Master
Zhang, Yu Lei is a former college professor of
agriculture. He became interested in qigong as a college student and
later became a Soaring Crane Qigong instructor. Inspired by the
Universe, he developed Zhong Guo Hui Gong (Chinese Wisdom Qigong) in
the late 1970s. This super qigong form is so effective in treating
chronic illnesses, addictions, and disorders that millions of people
have learned and practiced it. Master Zhang established centers all
over China and became one of the most well known qigong masters in
China. The Chinese government has approved this super energy qigong. Many chronically ill, addictive, and psychiatric patients have recovered their mental health through practice of this form. In general, qigong practice is contraindicated for mental illness. Chinese Wisdom Qigong is an exception, as it is the only form that is safe and effective in treating disorders of this kind. For many years Master Zhang has devoted himself to this cause. He loves his students like a father loves his children. He is legal guardian to several students who were rejected by their families and now live in the facility where Master Zhang primarily teaches. In addition to training his students in qigong, he also cares for them 24 hours a day. Under his care his patients have recovered their health and begun to live a normal life. Master Zhang has published several books on the subject of qigong, addictions, diseases, chronic illnesses, and mental disorders including Non-Medical Therapy of Psychiatrics and Asking the Brain for Health. His contribution to this field of study and treatment is invaluable and gives cause for great hope among the Chronically Ill, Addiction, and Mental Health communities here in the United States. Master Zhang authorized Lew and Karin to establish the first Zhong Guo Hui Gong (Chinese Wisdom Qigong) Therapy Treatment Center outside of China at the KoKoLuLu Farm and Qigong Center in Hawi, Hawaii.  Jim
Berg MD, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a family of
medical doctors. Science and healing came naturally to him. From a very
young age, Jim has been interested in exercise, massage, herbs,
meditation, yoga, nutrition and medicine. Although he appreciated
modern medicine, Jim's main interest in healing was with direct and
natural manual approaches that help a person most profoundly. When he
was nineteen, Jim had a vision of how he could serve people deeper if
he understood the science of medicine and could practice with an
unrestricted license. He also realized that in order to really help
medicine evolve, he had to do this from the inside as a doctor. Jim had
clear witness of the shortcomings of modern medicine and sought to
bring the art of healing to the science of medicine. Jim’s life is dedicated to serving humanity with the kindest and most effective medicine feasible. He calls this service “Barefoot Doctoring”. He has been a healer and medical facilitator at the annual Rainbow Gatherings for more than 21 consecutive summers. Barefoot Doctoring is the way of healing at the Rainbow Gatherings, and Jim has learned this way well; to complement this way, he also obtained medical certification in Wilderness Advanced Life Support. He is as comfortable healing in the forests, mountains, beaches, and jungles, as he is in his office. "Nurturing and strengthening is preferable to pills and potions; Pills and potions are preferable to surgery; and surgery is preferable to death; Caring is the most important." Jim has been sincerely devoted to science, oriental medicine and acupuncture, peak performance, herbal medicine, yoga, tai chi, aikido and qigong, healthy foods, meditation, and any safe techniques that help in healing. Along with his wife, Dee Anne Domnick, a Licensed Midwife and a talented healer, they co-founded a healing school called the Barefoot Doctors’ Academy, School of Natural Medicine and School of Midwifery, where they teach people how to care for themselves, friends and family. Jim is a healing coach, personal trainer, therapist, bodyworker, herbalist, and doctor. As a member of KoKoLuLu Farm and Qigong Center's staff, his aim is to be kind, deep, and creative. He cares and lives to share his skills. 
 Patricia
D. Culliton M.A., L. Ac., our dear friend and
colleague serves as a consultant and on site staff member several times
during the year, here at KoKoLuLu. Pat is Director of the Alternative
Medicine Division at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN
and is an instructor in the Graduate School at the University of
Minnesota. She has a Master of Arts degree in Rehabilitation Counseling
and is a Nationally Board Certified Acupuncturist. Pat was a mental health and addictions counselor for many years prior to studying acupuncture. Since 1981 she has been conducting acupuncture research and developing complementary and alternative medicine services at Hennepin and nationally. She has published several articles and book chapters about the treatment effects of acupuncture and other modalities for addictions and pain. Presently she supervises a staff of Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, massage therapists, and chiropractors that provide clinical services, educational experiences for physicians and allied health providers and conduct clinical research trials. She also teaches 2 courses in the U of MN Center for Spirituality and Healing graduate minor program. Pat is a founding board member of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association and the Society for Acupuncture Research. She has been involved in several NIH funded research grants, helped develop a Post-Doctoral Fellowship program in Addiction and Alternative Medicine and consults with agencies regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine both nationally and internationally. |
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