Denise DiRenzo attended The New Seminary, and was ordained an Interfaith Minister at Saint John The Divine. Through the New York Open Center she completed the Coaching for Transformation instruction, and has a life coaching practice in NYC. She became a certified workshop facilitator after training with two pioneers in the field of personal growth, David Gershon and Gail Straub, at the Empowerment Institute, and offers 2-day intensive workshops.   Denise began her career performing, directing and choreographing on Broadway, throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Asia.  She is the mother of two teenage sons. 

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About the Empowerment Institute:  David Gershon and Gail Straub are considered the world’s foremost experts on empowerment. Co-authors of the critically acclaimed Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It. , their state-of-the-art empowerment tools have been applied over the past two decades to achieve profound transformative change at the individual, organizational and societal levels. Their Empowerment Institute Certification Program has certified practitioners throughout the world to apply their “empowerment model” in businesses, schools, prisons, and grassroots social change organizations. In 1986 they applied the principles of empowerment and organized, in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund and ABC Television, the First Earth Run in which a lighted torch was passed around the world. More than 25 million people and 45 heads of state in 62 countries participated in this worldwide celebration of our possibility to live in harmony with each other and the Earth. Their empowerment workshops are held annually at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY.

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