WHAT WE DO
We transform individuals, groups, and communities.
Our organization facilitates transformation; it's what we are called to do. We offer emersion workshop experiences, followed by ongoing support experiences. Once you commit to a workshop, your transformation process begins!
Over 25 years, we've developed an approach to educate, transform, and support our participants. This includes initial pre-workshop sessions, an intense emersion session (usually lasting 2-4 days), and post-workshop sessions. Through this approach, we facilitate individual transformation, and build a community to sustain and expand the change. The individual workshop experiences differ in modalities, but our approach always centers around mindfulness, compassion, and self-reflection. Together we will learn how to discover, transform, integrate, and support.
Our workshops and support experiences take place in Atlanta, GA, Matanzas Shores, FL, and Quepos, Costa Rica.
There are always scholarships available because everyone has earned the right to transform, and help others transform.
Our organization facilitates transformation; it's what we are called to do. We offer emersion workshop experiences, followed by ongoing support experiences. Once you commit to a workshop, your transformation process begins!
Over 25 years, we've developed an approach to educate, transform, and support our participants. This includes initial pre-workshop sessions, an intense emersion session (usually lasting 2-4 days), and post-workshop sessions. Through this approach, we facilitate individual transformation, and build a community to sustain and expand the change. The individual workshop experiences differ in modalities, but our approach always centers around mindfulness, compassion, and self-reflection. Together we will learn how to discover, transform, integrate, and support.
Our workshops and support experiences take place in Atlanta, GA, Matanzas Shores, FL, and Quepos, Costa Rica.
There are always scholarships available because everyone has earned the right to transform, and help others transform.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
Paul Nieminen, Ph.D (abd)
For the past 25 years, Paul’s work has focused on transformation at the organizational and personal levels. He works primarily in two environments including global organizations and communities of personal recovery.
Paul is a globally recognized leader in the field of Organizational Development. He has created and implemented models that align and engage people with organizational strategies. His expertise is in the areas of organizational culture, national culture, change management, organizational design, performance management, and talent management. He has been in executive level positions in the largest global organizations, and has led the human component of Organizational Learning, Human Resources, Mergers & Acquisitions, and International Organizational Effectiveness.
Paul has been active in recovery communities for over 25 years. He has held positions at inpatient and outpatient treatment centers for addictions, codependency, and mood disorders. He has researched, designed, and facilitated transformational workshop experiences for individuals, groups, and communities. His specific areas of interest include evoking the transformational moment, intuition and the voice within, the ancestral and spiritual meta realm, narratives and metaphors, peer to peer support, and twelve step programs. Paul believes that the recovery journey benefits everyone, and it can be a profound individual and community experience.
Paul holds several advanced degrees and practitioner certificates. He holds a BS in Business with an international concentration. He holds an MS is in Human Resource Development with a concentration in adult learning, counseling, and instructional design. He completed all required coursework for a PH.D. in Human Resource Development which leads to a deep understanding of Human Behavior, Cultural Anthropology, Socio-technical Systems, Ethnography, and Documentary Filmmaking. He completed a 9 month study at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, NM. Paul is currently working on another Ph.D. in Transformational and Social Change. His research interest is in the “facilitators and conduits” of transformational change at (and between) the individual, group, community, and meta levels.
Paul has two children and lives between Atlanta, GA and Matanzas Shores, FL. He travels the world often, reads Jung for fun, and appreciates both the the concrete jungle and the magnificence of nature. Paul practices fatherhood, friendship, Buddhism (along with other spiritual traditions), and gratefulness. He often leads retreats at his lodge that is nestled within in the rainforest of Costa Rica.
Contact Paul Nieminen at mosaicprod@mac.com
Beth Springer
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Linda Pupke
Linda M. Pupke is a small business owner from Chicago with a PhD in life’s experiences! She was a corporate trainer in the Atlanta area for several years before marrying, having a daughter and moving to Florida. She is a 32-year member of a recovery community and she currently serves on the Advisory Board for Purpose House Transitional Living. In this role, Linda mentors women who are making the transition from treatment center settings into recovery community living. Linda is the former Assistant Director of a recovery house for women in the Sarasota area, where she assisted in the many aspects of integrating women back into society. While there, she created aftercare programs and networked with other community resources to help women smoothly transition into productive lives. She was also the Social Services Director of a treatment center in the mountains of Georgia, where again her primary function was intake and creating aftercare programs.
Linda presently volunteers at Historic Spanish Point, where among her many duties she is a character interpreter for living history venues. She has also dedicated many hours volunteering for various school activities while her daughter, Beth, was growing up, among them Volunteer Co-ordinator at an elementary school level and organizing and running clothes closets at the high school level. She has also volunteered at the local homeless shelter and animal shelter, as well as one of her main passions, AidAtlanta. At AidAtlanta, she was instrumental in organizing and presenting quarterly “Aids 101” workshops for the community.
Linda’s other passions include spiritual healing modalities, interior decorating, gardening, drumming, motorcycling, animals and travel. She currently lives in Sarasota with her husband, Fred, and cat, Lilli.
Linda presently volunteers at Historic Spanish Point, where among her many duties she is a character interpreter for living history venues. She has also dedicated many hours volunteering for various school activities while her daughter, Beth, was growing up, among them Volunteer Co-ordinator at an elementary school level and organizing and running clothes closets at the high school level. She has also volunteered at the local homeless shelter and animal shelter, as well as one of her main passions, AidAtlanta. At AidAtlanta, she was instrumental in organizing and presenting quarterly “Aids 101” workshops for the community.
Linda’s other passions include spiritual healing modalities, interior decorating, gardening, drumming, motorcycling, animals and travel. She currently lives in Sarasota with her husband, Fred, and cat, Lilli.
Zuri Nieminen
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Sofie Nieminen
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Bio coming soon!!!