Faculty Fellows
HVC's Faculty Fellows bring deep expertise across healing arts, somatic practice, neuroscience, and ecological wisdom. Each fellow offers specialty programs that extend CRM® into new modalities — co-created with communities, rooted in lived experience, and grounded in the body's own capacity for healing and knowing.
Susan McBride
Faculty Fellow · Ceramic Artist & Educator
M.S. Northwestern University · CRM® Certified Teacher · Clay Field Therapy® Practitioner
Susan McBride is a ceramic educator and artist whose practice weaves together the oldest human material — clay — with the neuroscience of nervous system regulation. A former English teacher and ceramic artist for thirty years, she has taught in the US, China, Kenya, and Mexico. Susan is a CRM® Certified teacher and a Clay Field Therapy® Practitioner, bringing a rare integration of creative arts and resiliency-based education to students and educators.
Clay About It
Workshop · 90 minutes
A hands-on clay and healing experience integrating CRM® skills with the somatic wisdom of working with earth. Clay connects mind, body, and earth — regulating the nervous system and surfacing what words cannot reach. No experience needed. Just bring yourself.
- ✓ Sink hands into real clay — Earth's oldest material
- ✓ Hand-building: Pinch, Coil & Slab techniques
- ✓ Somatic regulation through touch and making
- ✓ Individual creation + collective piece
- ✓ Ceremonious return of work to the earth
- ✓ CRM® skill integration throughout
Clay Field Therapy® Private Sessions
Individual · By appointment
One-on-one Clay Field Therapy® sessions that use the tactile relationship with clay as a pathway to emotional processing, nervous system regulation, and inner resource discovery. Rooted in the body's own wisdom, these sessions are available to individuals, educators, and community leaders.
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Immersive · 1–2 days
Immersive retreat experiences combining CRM® practices, clay work, and collective healing for professional development groups, educator cohorts, and community leaders. Wellspring retreats are designed to rekindle the calling to serve and restore the inner resources that sustain meaningful work.
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Jacey Eve
Faculty Fellow · Somatic & Ecological Wisdom
Embodiment Facilitator · Relational Medicine Person · Healing Arts Theorist
Jacey Eve (they/them) is an embodiment facilitator, relational medicine person, and healing arts theorist who nurtures the capacity for embodied leadership for educators, cultural stewards, and student leaders in higher education. Their practice weaves together somatic intelligence, ecological wisdom, and transformative pedagogy — drawing on traditional knowledge systems and the body's own capacity for healing and knowing.
Advanced Somatic Leadership
Course · Coming Soon
An advanced somatic course for educators, community leaders, and practitioners who want to deepen their embodied leadership practice. Drawing on somatic intelligence, ecological wisdom, and relational medicine, this course moves beyond introductory nervous system tools into the deeper terrain of body-based knowing, collective healing, and transformative presence.
- ✓ Somatic intelligence and body-based knowing
- ✓ Ecological wisdom and place-based practice
- ✓ Relational medicine and collective healing
- ✓ Designed for practitioners with CRM® or somatic foundations
Embodied Leadership Workshops
Workshop · Custom
Custom workshops for campus communities, educator cohorts, and community organizations exploring the intersection of somatic practice, ecological belonging, and leadership. Jacey brings traditional knowledge systems and healing arts into dialogue with contemporary leadership development.
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Liz Burgis
Faculty Fellow · Board Member · Art & Neuroscience
B.S. Neuroscience, UC Santa Cruz · MFA Candidate · CRM® Certified Teacher · Based in New York City
Liz Burgis works at the intersection of art and neuroscience. Based in New York City, she holds a B.S. in neuroscience from the University of California–Santa Cruz and is pursuing her MFA. Her practice explores how creative expression and nervous system regulation can be integrated to support healing and community wellbeing — bringing scientific rigor and artistic depth into the same room. She is available for on-site school visits across the New York area and beyond.
CRM® + Art for Schools
On-site Workshop · K–12 & Higher Ed
An on-site workshop series bringing CRM® nervous system regulation skills together with art-making for school communities. Students and educators explore how creative expression activates the body's own healing capacities — building a shared language for emotional regulation through the hands. Liz is NYC-based and available for school visits across the New York area and nationally.
- ✓ CRM® skills integrated through art-making
- ✓ Accessible to all ages — no art experience needed
- ✓ Supports trauma-informed school culture
- ✓ Available for K–12 and higher education settings
- ✓ NYC-based · available for on-site school visits
Creative Expression & Nervous System Regulation
Workshop · Custom
Custom workshops for campus communities, educator groups, and community organizations exploring how art-making activates the body's own healing capacities — grounded in neuroscience-informed CRM® practice.
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HVC welcomes practitioners whose work is grounded in community wisdom, somatic intelligence, traditional ecological knowledge, or healing arts — and who are committed to co-creating wellbeing from the inside out. If your practice aligns with our values, we'd love to explore a collaboration.