Pamela Kristan—author, teacher, and consultant—has helped thousands of individuals and organizations find practical, creative strategies to improve their lives through retreats, workshops, talks, and individual consultations. Pam began her business in 1985. Recently, she has moderated local speak-outs for National Take Back Your Time Day—in 2003 at Boston's Faneuil Hall and in 2004 on Boston Common.
Pam's book, The Spirit of Getting Organized: 12 Skills to Find Meaning and Power in Your Stuff, was published by Red Wheel/Weiser in 2003. Her next book, The ABCs of Sustainable Time Management, is in the works. Articles on Pam's work have appeared in Prevention magazine, Men's Health, the Boston Sunday Globe, and the ADHD Journal. Pam has been interviewed on various media programs, including Laura Knoy's Morning Show (New Hampshire Public Radio) and the Jordan Rich Show (WBZ Boston).
As a child, Pam helped out with the administrative details of her family's HVAC contracting business while at the same time being active in the arts—dance, theater, painting, and music. Now, having made a living at both the piano and the computer keyboards, she holds a unique position bridging the creative and the practical.
Pam took a degree in piano performance at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and worked as an accompanist for singers, instrumentalists, and Ram Island Dance Company. She has written music criticism for the Maine Times and other newspapers, as well as program notes for Boston's Cantata Singers, which she managed.
Pam is an avid outdoor person. She has led groups on her Outings with Spirit! adventures to Nantucket, the Smoky Mountains, and Passamaquoddy Bay, drawing on years as an Appalachian Mountain Club leader, wild food enthusiast, ritual artist, cook, and event producer. She continues to lead wild food and medicine walks for Boston's Franklin Park Coalition.
In the 90s, Pam produced the adult spiritual education program at the Paulist Center in downtown Boston, where she developed the program, Sunday/Monday: Integrating Work and the Spiritual Life. She practices an eclectic spirituality, drawing on text-based and earth-centered traditions.