About Pennie Sempell's Place: Our Mission

Health is a treasure. On that point, most all people would agree. For thousands of years, humans have explored how to promote healing and health. Astounding advances have been made, and traditional healing arts have not been entirely lost. Yet, with the challenges of life and modern day stressors, it takes many skills (not just pills) to stay healthy and happy.

Pennie Sempell's Place is a place to find quality educational programs and services that help the child and the adult create a healthier, happier life. Our mission is to help empower people, young and old, to learn and apply skills to protect and grow their health treasure, to help oneself become “health intelligent”. For fun, we call this Qi I.Q. (Qi is pronounced “key” or “chi”).

• Goals for Individuals and Families
• Expand personal responsibility for physical, mental and social well-being
• Make daily use of easy-to-do practices for reducing stress and tension
• Enhance responsibility, kindness and appreciation
• Provide interactive activities for family fun and healthy lifestyle
• Increase respect for cross-cultural approaches to self-help
  
  
  Pennie Sempell, JD, ACMT is the producer and creator of the series, as well as performing as vocalist and special “guest” on the Best of Broadway and Beyond: Health Series. Pennie is an expert in safe, natural methods to help ourselves lead healthier and happier lives. A renowned integrative medicine therapist, educator and author, Pennie specializes in research based mind-body and energy therapies, including the ancient “Art of Happiness”, a hands-on healing modality. For more than a decade, she has worked as a therapist in a pioneering collaboration with physicians and psychologists at a medical center in San Francisco. Pennie began her career teaching preschool in the day, while performing as a dancer and singer at night. Her one-woman children’s show “Teaching Feelings: Songs From The Heart” has been performed on stages nationally She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and later earned a Juris Doctor at U.C. Hastings College of the Law. She has extensive experience in mediation (conflict resolution) and in mind-body and energy-based therapies, with an emphasis on the energy medicine healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu (pronounced Jit-su). Pennie raised three children, all of whom are thriving in academic and artistic pursuits. She is fascinated with the process of turning disharmony to harmony, chaos to balance.
  
  For more information about Pennie Sempell’s therapy practice, visit:
  http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/61336
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  About Gerald Mitchell, MBA, ASMT
  Gerald Mitchell brings his warm laugh and love of everything “healthy” to the recording studio as D.J. “G” in the “Best of Broadway and Beyond” series. Gerald grew up in a supportive extended family and community in southern Georgia during the height of the Civil Rights era. Because he always liked fruits and nuts more than greasy food, neighborhood kids called him “Doc” for short. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nutrition and fitness, and moved west to Texas to complete a graduate degree in business administration and begin his career. Gerald continued what would become more than two decades of study of ancient energy therapies, including the Tao healing arts and Jin Shin Jyutsu, as well as nutritional approaches to using food as a natural medicine. He joined Pennie in her private practice in San Francisco and works full time as a healing arts and energy therapy practitioner and educator. Gerald has traveled extensively in Latin America and Thailand. He loves to dance, walk, swim, make juice out of everything in sight, play with his dog, and be with his family and friends.