Karen Lee Turner is an artist, author, musician, and retreat leader. For the past thirty years she has taught courses and led retreats for business, academic, healthcare, and spiritual groups.

Here are a few highlights:

Education & Training:

• Master’s degree in Human Development Counseling.

• Doctoral degree in Adult Learning from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development.

• Certified Facilitative Leadership™ instructor through Interaction Associates.

• Certified Lifecycle Celebrant.

Some Experiences:

• First job: Washing eggs. (My family had 1200 chickens!)

• Second job: Playing piano for church. (My feet could barely touch the pedals.)

• More music: Years of accompanying church choirs, soloists, musical theatre productions, and contemplative gatherings.

• Research / Practice: Designing and refining learning environments that encourage personal transformation.

• Teaching, Training, Learning: Leadership Development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

• Writing: Essays and book reviews published in the award-winning spiritual life journal, Weavings, as well as Leading from Within: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Lead.

• Book: Author of “Each Day As It Comes: Morning & Evening Meditations for Living Through Change.”

• Lilly Endowment Grant Awardee: Pastoral leadership as a liturgical musician and artist.

• Adjunct Faculty at Belmont University: More than a decade teaching in the Adult Learning Degree Program.

• Self-Taught Artist: Painting just about anything not moving.

These days…

I write, paint, and design retreats in my colorful, light-filled studio just outside of Nashville where I am assisted by my two Maine Coon cats.

My work continues to be inspired by my late husband and creative partner, the poet, Nevin Compton Trammell.