Helen Horigan, Northnode's Associate Director, uses her master's degrees in education and in women's spirituality, her life-long practice of creative arts and meditation, and her experience in the grass roots service community to support the search for meaning in our work and in our workplaces and to help ensure that Northnode stays true to its mission. She has facilitated workshops in various parts of the United States that help people nurture and apply their creative capacities to all aspects of their lives.

Helen integrates creative arts into her daily life as aesthetic expression as well as a form of self-awareness and self-care. She has participated in creative dance for over 30 years and teaches in various settings, including annual congresses of the International Association for Creative Dance in Massachusetts, Arizona, and Hawai'i. She has a long-standing practice in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism and has taught meditation to individuals and groups. She has exhibited mandalas from her art/meditation practice in several group shows, including Interconnections, the premier exhibition of The Art of Compassion. Her piece, "Mandala Meditations on the Death Penalty," from that show was featured in The Fourth R, the 40th Anniversary publication of Amnesty International USA.

The mandala images that appear on this web site were created by Helen in meditation practice.