Seduction Redefined: A Guide to Creative Collaboration of the Feminine and Masculine
Donna Sheehan, a Northern California native, is an artist, community/environmental visionary activist and Evolutionary Behaviorist. She has received state and national awards, including an AVA (Award for Vision and Achievement) for her inspiration behind the global anti-war organization, Baring Witness (www.BaringWitness.org), an Environmental Action Committee Steward of the Land Award, and a Giraffe Award (www.giraffe.org) for “sticking her neck out” in her work on pesticide reform with Mow&Sow;, the environmental action nonprofit she founded.  She has twenty years of experience in researching and organizing. She co-founded a community radio station (www.KWMR.org) in Northern California and ORLO, an arts and ecology organization in Portland, Oregon.  Donna has conducted Seduction Redefined workshops, teaching women to give themselves permission to initiate courtship, build relationship and create partnership. At the age of almost eighty and in partnership with Paul, she feels successful, beautiful and sensual. Paul Reffell, an English transplant to Northern California, is an Evolutionary Behaviorist activist who writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction on Nature and human nature. He has performed his works on stage and on radio. He is also a pretty good carpenter. Since becoming partners and creative collaborators, Donna and Paul have worked together on many projects, including Baring Witness. They have co-written a book and personality profiling system that uses physical genetic indicators of left/right brain traits, called BrainLines, which can be seen at www.BrainLines.org. They have co-created interactive public art installations and this book, Redefining Seduction.  At present they are co-producing a feature-length documentary film on Sex, War & Seduction. As part of their Evolutionary Revolution, which combines the influences of all their work, they created the Dolley Madison Partnership Award to honor couples in which the Functional Masculine and Functional Feminine have combined for the benefit of the world.  They have been interviewed and featured internationally on TV, radio and in films.