A professional communicator, Evangeline Welch has presented a broad scope of workshops and trainings on creativity, expressive arts, transformational storytelling, intuitive body wisdom and the Enneagram. She is an IEA (International Enneagram Association) Accredited Enneagram Professional, a Certified Relational Presence Facilitator, and Certified Speaking Circles® Facilitator. In 1997, Evangeline founded a transformational art process that evokes deep play called Paint Dancing™ (her own intuitive leap) and became a facilitator for the Inner Journey Institute in 2002. Her ongoing creative process - attuning with and photographing birds - evolved into a spiritual practice since the beginning of the Covid lockdown in March 2020, when she found solace in solitude as she watched and photographed the majesty of the birds from her home on Spring Lake in Shreveport. She also finds joy, meaning and connection as a member of a group of seven improvisational storytellers who have shared narratives of their lives with each other for more than 20 years. For the past 20 years, Evangeline has worked closely with The Narrative Enneagram (TNE), an educational nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives and creating a more compassionate world. She serves as co-host of TNE's monthly "Third Thursday" community gatherings on Zoom. These monthly gatherings have offered a meaningful experience of Enneagram-focused learning and practice, breakout sessions, and engaging conversations since March 2020. Evangeline also is TNE's Communications Advisor, having previously served as TNE's marketing director and webmaster from 2005 through 2020. She started her career as a professional communicator in 1978 as a newspaper reporter for the Shreveport Journal. In 1981, she joined the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce as manager of communications, and later as editor and art director for Shreveport magazine. In 1985, she traveled across the country on an "intuitive leap" and found her next dream job six days later in San Francisco – as editor and art director for San Francisco Business magazine and manager of communications for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. It was a wonderful way to get to know San Francisco and make many new lifetime connections. Evangeline spent the next three decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. She started her own business on April 1, 1988 (thinking April Fool's Day would be a good excuse if it didn't work out). Since then, she has enjoyed doing meaningful work either independently or in collaboration with others. She has been deeply immersed working with mission-driven organizations throughout her professional career. She is a graduate of Leadership Shreveport and Leadership San Francisco. She has been a featured artist at the Red River Revel and has served as artist-in-residence at the International Conference on Business and Consciousness. Her current focus includes the Enneagram, storytelling, bird and nature photography, group facilitation, content editing and website development. Evangeline now works online and in Shreveport, LA and the San Francisco Bay Area. LEARN MORE: https://www.intuitiveleaps.com, https://www.narrativeenneagram.org, https://relationalpresence.com