LaUra Schmidt, Founding Director

LaUra (she/her) is the founding director of the Good Grief Network and the brain behind the “10-Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate” program and the FLOW Facilitation Training modality. She is a truth seeker, community builder, trainer, program designer, and facilitator. As the granddaughter and grandniece of holocaust survivors, LaUra has long been captivated by the human condition. She is a lifelong student, curator, and practitioner of personal and collective resilience strategies. Inspiration finds her in natural landscapes and honest, open-hearted dialogue.​

While a bit of a nomad, she hails from Michigan, and graduated with a BS in Environmental Studies, Biology, and Religious Studies. Her MS is in Environmental Humanities.

LaUra is a Climate Reality Leadership Corps member & mentor. She recently earned certificates in “Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy”  and  “Climate Psychology.”

In August 2023, LaUra & Aimee’s much anticipated book on Good Grief Network’s unique 10-Step program called How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet will be released through Shambhala Publications. For media requests directed to LaUra, email her at laura(at)goodgriefnetwork(dot)org.

Aimee Lewis-Reau, Cofounder & FLOW Facilitator

Aimee is a FLOW Facilitator (Fierce Lover Of Words/Wisdom/Why). She is an edgy & reverent contemplative, healer and yoga/intuitive movement instructor. To keep her sanity, Aimee dances because as Alice Walker said: “Hard times require furious dancing.” She also DJs under the name eXis10shAL.

Aimee received her Bachelor’s degree in English, Poetry, and Religion from Central Michigan University before obtaining her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Georgia College & State University.