Andrea Brooks Dole is a singer, advocate, and restorative practitioner, who has been swimming upstream all her life, seeking to return children to a native habitat that is interdependent, diverse, joyful and expressive. Andrea has travelled around the world singing and teaching music from ancient singing traditions with Northern Harmony, and sung in community choirs and small ensembles from Maine to Miami, Chile to Spain, Boston, Bennington, and the Republic of Georgia. Andrea's advocacy for children and families springs from a deep well of trust in the natural world, and from singing powerful songs from cultures worldwide. Andrea embodies a unique capacity to blend best practices from multiple disciplines and traditions to empower people and systems to thrive; she has the sensitivity to attune to unique individuals, and the intelligence to synthesize information from many sources to apply to effective clinical practice. Andrea has built relationships with legislators, government officials, disability advocates, medical providers, journalists, community members, researchers and academics to help create policy and clinical solutions for children with complex medical needs. She loves to tend to plants in the garden and woods, and helps run Earthways Guide Service, teaching traditional skills and facilitating nature connection. Andrea lives in an off grid solar timber frame home she and her husband Patrick built in Belfast, Maine, with their two incredible children James (9) and Rafe (7), who were both born at home.