Heart Walk Foundation

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tim Eicher, M.Ed.
Professor, Family and Consumer Sciences, Dixie State College

Tim approaches the teaching-learning interaction holistically. "The teaching-learning experience flows best through meaningful relationships that are characterized by honest and open exchange in an atmosphere free from judgment and negativity. Cultural values and principles that balance and heal our relationships are the vehicles for transmission of ideas and concepts."

Penelope Eicher, M.S.
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Private Practice

Penelope's years living and working with indigenous Navajo and Hualapai peoples, as well as visits to war-torn El Salvador and Palestine, have shaped her belief that community relations are the vital core to our well-being. "Traditional indigenous communities have much to teach us about how to live in balance. The shamanic traditions can help heal what ails us in the west."

Kenneth Boche, M.A.
Entrepreneur, Teacher, Facilitator, Geographer.

As a permaculture designer and teacher, Ken is grounded in the values on which that sustainability design system is based: “Taking responsibility for our own existence and that of our children; Care of people; Care of the Earth; Recognizing the need for limits to population and consumption.” His passions include working with people and their local habitats, with appropriate plants, animals, and other resources to create living systems and maintain cultural traditions that are healthy, renewable, and life-sustaining.

Marz Attar
Entrepreneur

In his external life, Marz has been a successful entrepreneur, with an aim to utilize the resources to serve projects that help raise our collective consciousness.

His inner journeys have taken him to realize that healing himself is an essential part of his service. To heal, he has been blessed by teachings and teachers from Himalayas, Northern Caucasus, and Andes. He has come to see that in these higher elevations, remnants of highly evolved cultures exist which can offer a great deal to our individual and collective healing processes. He combines his time and efforts to receive help from these sources, as well as trying to promote the preservation and distribution of these wisdoms for the benefit of the communities surrounding us.

Melissa Riparetti Stepien

After 20 years as an educator, Melissa now focuses on service inspired by the Latihan spiritual experience in the Subud tradition. She is a lover of poetry and literature, nature explorer, river runner, and likes to be around children and old people.

Even After All This Time
The Sun Never Says To The Earth,
"You Owe Me"
Look What Happens With A Love Like That.
It Lights The Whole Sky.
-- Hafiz

Melanie Kimbel

Melanie (known to her closest friends and family as Mimi) has built her life -- and her career in the nonprofit worlds of land preservation, political activism and youth services -- on inspiring and motivating people to discover what is most important to them. Millions of people have the ability and deep desire to do good deeds. Melanie brings generous people together with great missions by creating complete programs -- opportunities for them to donate their time and money -- harnessing the human will to make our world a better place, through philanthropy, voluntarism and hands-on experiences.

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