Judy Harrow
personal information:
birth: March 3, 1945 -- Bronx, New York
education:
Bronx High School of Science, 1962
Western College for Women, B.A. 1966
major: American Government
La Jolla Program in Group Facilitation, 1977
City College of New York,
Graduate School of Education, M.S. 1979
major: Counseling (with honors)
present affiliation: High Priestess, Proteus Coven
biographical sketch:
I began to study Witchcraft in 1976, and was initiated as a Priestess
in September of 1977. Founded Inwood Study Group in June, 1980. After
I received Third Degree (Gardnerian) in November, 1980, this group
became
Proteus Coven. Proteus affiliated with Covenant of the Goddess in
August,
1981. I was convening First Officer of Northeast Local Council of CoG
in
1983, National First Officer of CoG in 1984, and Co-chair of CoG Grand
Council in 1985. I have held various other positions on the CoG
National and Local Boards of Directors, most recently National Public
Information Officer
from 1993-1995.
I was the first member of CoG to be legally
registered as clergy in New York City in 1985, after a five year effort
requiring
the assistance of New York Civil Liberties Union.
I am Chair of the Pastoral Counseling Department at Cherry Hill Seminary. I
founded
the Pagan Pastoral Counseling Network in 1982, and served as the first
editor of the Network's publication. I co-created a workshop series on Basic
Counseling Skills for Coven Leaders, which has successfully
run many times. This grew into a series of intensive workshops for
Pagan
elders on a range of topics. I also founded the New York Area Coven
Leaders'
Peer Support Group. I served as Program Coordinator for the first
Mid-Atlantic
Pan Pagan Conference and Festival and for seven other Pagan
gatherings.
For two years, I produced "Reconnections," a
weekly feature on the activities of religious progressives of all
faiths, for
WBAI radio in New York.
I contributed two essays to Modern Rites of Passage (Book 2 in
the "Witchcraft Today" anthology series.), and one to the anthology Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft,
published in 1996 by SUNY Press. One of these essays has since been
reprinted in The Paganism Reader
(Routledge, 2004). I have also written for AHP Perspective (the Newsletter of the
Association for Humanistic Psychology), Counseling and Values (the Journal
of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in
Counseling), Gnosis, and such
small Pagan publications as Dayshift,
Harvest, and the CoG Newsletter.
I am a regular contributor to PanGaia,
where my column “Mind and Magic” was introduced in their Summer, 2004
issue. My first book, Wicca Covens,
was published in 1999. My second book, Spiritual Mentoring, was published
in 2002. I also edited (and contributed to) Devoted to You: Honoring Deity in Wiccan
Practice, which was published in 2003, and coordinated the
50th Anniversary reissue of Witchcraft
Today by Gerald Gardner, published in 2004.
I am a member of the Association for Humanistic
Psychology and of the American Counseling Association. Within ACA, I
belong to three special interest subgroups: the Association for
Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC), the
Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), and the International
Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC). I am
President of New
Jersey ASERVIC, and serve on the Book Review Board of the Family
Journal, a publication of IAMFC.
I am a member of the National Advisory Board of
the Consultation on Multifaith
Education. I am also a member of the steering committee of the
Interfaith Council of Greater New York. I manage the Council's email
list and act as their liaison with the United Religions Initiative. I
served as the Council's Program Coordinator in the year 1996-1997.
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