Author/performer/storyteller, Phyllis Peterson, grew up in the mid-west
and has travelled extensively doing workshops and seminars on anger
management, personal boundaries, authority of self, Protective Behaviors
for children, and telling stories of women and girls as heroes.  She is a member
of the Baha'i Faith, taking the principles of equality and justice from the
Writings of Baha'u'llah and incorporating them into the issues that humankind
faces today world wide.  Her programs are inter-cultural and reach across
everything that divides ... with laughter and humor, truth, beauty and goodness.
She has three grown children, three grandchildren,
and a Siamese Fighting Fish named Phoenix.

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Press Kit Bio (can be copied from this webpage):

Ms. Peterson is President and creator of Skylark Publishing Company, which has offered materials to Family Violence Shelters across the United States since 1989 (www.skylarkpubl.com).  Phyllis has conducted workshops on Anger Management, Boundary Sculpting, Protective Behaviors for Children, Stories of Women and Girls as Heroes, the Expression of Feelings, and How Acknowledgement Heals Families in England, China, Japan, and Thailand as well as the U.S.

She is a lecturer and workshop creator and has not only written her own materials, but illustrated them.  She has two CD’s of musical compositions, one filled with songs teaching the prevention of bullying.

What motivates her to do all these creative things?  A great educator, Baha’u’llah, said, “Until women are allowed to achieve their highest possibilities, men will be unable to achieve the greatness that might be theirs.”

Ms. Peterson has lived the meaning of this quote because she has risen from a childhood that not only included physical violence but childhood sexual abuse.  This affected her ability to have a healthy relationship with her own children.  Her search for meaning through artistic expression has created intergenerational healing and justice in her own family and has allowed her to achieve her highest possibilities.

She learned how to express her anger and rage in an appropriate way, to set boundaries with those who would violate her rights and demean her as a human being.  She learned to identify and express her feelings and to teach her children to do so.  And most of all, she stopped the cycle of abuse in her family.  She has quite a story to tell…one of hope for all parents, educators and therapists.

Her teaching experiences include Family Violence Shelters, Women’s and Men’s Prisons, Universities, Community Colleges, Pre-schools, Nursing homes, PTA’s, Child Abuse Prevention Conferences, Schools, Community Centers, orphanages, and Catholic Social Service Agencies.

She has two books out:  Assisting the Traumatized Soul” and “Healing the Wounded Soul”, with a third one on the way Spring of 2006 entitled, “The Heroic Female Spirit: A Collection of Tales,” composed of stories of women and girls as heroes.  She sees the need for girls to recognize that they have the same potential as boys to be heroes and to bring peace to the world as well as save the environment.