Assistant Coach

Vision

Janessa’s vision for the Educare Learning Institute is that it is bringing to the world a community of inspired individuals equipped with spiritual tools to make daily progress and to experience personal transformation.

The environment Educare affords is a safe, inspiring space that invites all to reflect, awaken, and live on purpose.  In so doing, we realize the effect we can have on the lives of those around us, and even the world.

Experience and Education

After a two-year tour in Iraq from 2003-2005, and subsequent time traveling and working throughout the Middle East, Janessa founded a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization called Euphrates Institute.  Based on the campus of Principia College, Euphrates is the home for Warriors for Peace®–individuals seeking to improve relations with the Middle East in the wake of 9/11.

Euphrates helps Americans stay informed, highlights examples of everyday heroes and organizations fostering peace, and enables citizens to take action–with the goal of promoting peace and ending extremism. Janessa is an ancillary faculty at Principia College, and a former CIA political analyst.  She graduated with a B.A. from Principia College and a master’s degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University.

Special Interests

To see our Oneness with Love, and to behold our limitless nature, by:

• Transcending the barriers that outwardly separate us, and seeing the ways in which we are all joined, and yet at the same time, unique and vital.

• Making daily progress to learn more, love more, and give more.

• Honoring the fearless, playful, and childlike, in myself and others.

• Seeing the equality and humanity of the “Other” that inspires us to go
  beyond their fears, limitations, and embrace all in the bigger picture.

• Learning, especially spiritual discoveries about man and the universe.

• Traveling to distant lands.