Shinan
Naom Barclay
P.O. Box 1300 Sedona, AZ.
86339
(520)282-2268
Author | Educator |
Humorist | Speaker | Poet | Storyteller | Writer | Fairy
GodMother
Accomplishments
and Accouterments
- Shinan traveled to the Arctic Circle at age nineteen,
taught primary grades and began to learn about
Sorytelling and Shamanic traditions.
- She taught Elementary school for fifteen years, including
music and guitar to deaf and blind students Completed
M.A./PhD(abd) Psychology (1982) University of Humanistic
Studies, San Diego, CA.
- After graduate school and vanquishing a tumor, Shinan
left corporate job and city life for country living,
artistic expression and Native American studies in
northern Arizona. For the last twelve years, Shinan has
been residing in Sedona.
- Shinan's writings have appeared in over 200 regional and
national publications: Ranger Rick, National Wildlife,
Canada, Puget Sound Women's Digest, Holistic Life
Magazine, Sedona Times, Sedona Visitor's Guide, Sedona
Journal, The Tab, Tuscon Lifeline, etc.
- Shinan is co-author of two books: "The Sedona
Experience", (in its 11th printing) and
"Flowering Woman, Moontime for Kory", a story
of a young girl's rites of passage into womanhood, which
received the 1991 Omega Award as one of ten books to make
a contribution to humanity.

- On assignment for the Sedona Arts and Entertainment
paper, Shinan covered the 1989 Arizona Storytellers
Convention. In 1990 and 1992 she produced storytelling
workshops and concerts with national storytellers.
- Shinan founded the Sedona Storytellers' Guild and Verde
Valley Tellers of Tales. She sponsored national tellers,
monthly performances, classes, workshops and created a
community of local tellers. In 1989, Shinan produced a
one woman storytelling concert - to a standing room only
audience. "The best night I've ever spent in
Sedona", said Joan McClelland, an 11-year Sedona
resident and City Council member.
- Shinan has lectured and demonstrated Storytelling and
Mythmaking to service clubs, churches, organizations and
schools including: Kiwanis , Rotary, Catholic Women's
Guild, Christian Education Association, Adult Community
Center, Library Guild, Children's School House, Arizona
Watercolor Association, etc.
- Designed, developed and taught more than 200 classes,
workshops and seminars locally and nationally on
Creativity, Writing and Storytelling including:
"Personal Storytelling; How to find the stories of
your life;" Therapeutic Stories: Creating healing
stories for children;" "Earth Stories;"
"Masks, Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman
Archetype;" "Mythmaking," "Book
Writing Made E-Z;" "Break Into Print;"
"Getting Published," "Marketing and
Self-Promotion and Made Simple;" "Reclaim Your
Authentic Voice;" etc.
- Researching and creating new myths has been one of
Shinan's passsions. She has written "When the Great
Spirit Calls us Home", the rite of passage called
death, published by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross M.D. and now
translated and published in Japan. Another of her works
is "A Woman in her Prime" (humor) given the
"Judges Award" at the Southwestern Authors 1993
Short Story Contest. Shinan is currently working on other
myth stories for publication.
- An award-winning member of the Oak Creek Orators,
Toastmasters International, Shinan received Speaker of
the Year Award for 1992 and 1993, 1st Place Award
Humorous Speech Contest Northern Division 1990, 1st Place
Award Serious Speech Contest 1992, 1993, 1994, and
"World Class Speaker" Award 1994.

- Shinan's performances include: Mt. McKinley National
Park, Alaska; Religious Science Church, Dayton, Ohio;
Catholic Women's Conference, Big Bear, California, 1989;
Arizona State Storytelling Festival, 1989 & 1990;
Heartland Storytellers, Austin, Minnesota; Sedona
Historical Comedy Night, 1992 & 1994; Minnesota
Women's Press Salon, 1992; Good Council Motherhouse,
1992; 12th Annual Women's Spirituality Conference,
Mankato, Minnesota, 1993; Search Group- Unity
Church, Rochester, Minnesota, 1993; Wild Woman's Retreats
International, 1993 &1994.
- As Adjunct Professor, 1993 California Institute of
Integral Studies, Shinan developed and presented classes
in "Wild Woman Archetype" and "Woman's
Spirituality" to graduate students in an independent
study program.
- Shinan was contracted by D.C Heath Co. of Lexington
Massachusetts, (textbook publishing company) to perform
storytelling on a prototype educational CDROM (computer
learning video).
- She is niece of world renowned Authors/Psychoanalysts
Rollo May PhD., known as the "Father of Humanistic
Psychology", author of: "Love and Will",
"Meaning of Anxiety", "Cry for Myth",
etc.; and Gerald G. May M.D., author of "Simply
Sane", "Awakening the Heart", etc.
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