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Mission
Statement:
Starsong Foundation (formerly "Expect A Miracle...Now,
Foundation) is dedicated to improving
the quality of life within our community through innovative programs
geared towards emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical
growth. We guide people to follow “the path of the heart”.
Facilitators:
We are facilitators of multi-dimensional, experiential workshops and
seminars. Our creative seminars are designed to facilitate personal
empowerment, responsibility, accountability, and self-love by helping
people embrace their own mortality and purpose on earth.
Producers:
Additionally, we partner with other not-for-profit organizations
committed to raising awareness through the enchantment of music.
Through these concerts, we are dedicated to keeping the music and
legacy of John Denver alive and in our hearts.
New Years Eve is
John Denver’s birthday and
Starsong Foundation has
produced concerts featuring John’s former band members and colleagues
celebrating his 60th through 65th birthdays. Karmen Dopslaff and Chris
Nole have produced these concerts to raise money for the hungry and
homeless in John’s honor and memory.
Starsong
Foundation and Karmen Dopslaff have
co-produced the John Denver Tribute Concerts at the Wheeler Opera
House in Aspen Colorado with the M.U.S.E. Foundation, Kenn Roberts and
Kris O’Connor for the years 2006 – 2007, benefiting several charities,
especially Challenge Aspen,
an outdoor experience for the physically challenged.
Kenn Roberts has
retired as of 2007 and until 2010
Starsong
Foundation had become the sole
producer of the John Denver Tribute Concerts. This is the largest John
Denver tribute concert in the world and each October his friends and
fans travel from all around the planet to meet and celebrate John’s
music and legacy.
Founders and Board:

Co-Founders - Raymond A.
Huger M.D. and Karmen T. Dopslaff
President -
Karmen T. Dopslaff
Vice President
- Ulrich Dopslaff Ph.D.
Raymond A. Huger, M.D.
the late co-founder of
Starsong Foundation
(originally First Light Huger Foundation and later, 'Expect A
Miracle...Now, Foundation) served as President. Dr. Huger
was a retired psychiatrist who spent over 50 years in practice at St.
Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He also
served on the Board of Directors of the Malta Center, the Frances
Moynihan Huger Foundation and First Light Huger Foundation.
Karmen
T. Dopslaff is President and
co-founder of
Starsong Foundation,
(originally First Light Huger Foundation and later, 'Expect A
Miracle...Now, Foundation). Karmen has been active in hospice care
since 1986, and has served on the Board of Directors of Shanti, the
Malta Center, The Frances Moynihan Huger Foundation and Esperança.
Karmen created the Awakening seminar in 1995 out of a growing need to
help people in service to find their own renewal. In 1997, Karmen
helped lead the Universal Experience in Switzerland for the Swiss AIDS
Help Organization. Karmen is internationally respected for her
compassion and insight and she has helped thousands of persons deal
with the core feelings associated with loss, grief, death, and dying.
In 2002, Karmen responded to an appeal made by the Arizona Department
of Corrections (ADOC) to facilitate the Awakening seminar inside the
prison walls. Twenty groups of inmates, both male and female,
eventually graduated from the program which met with high praise from
all levels of the administration.
Ulrich Dopslaff, Ph.D. is
Vice President of the Board of Directors of
Starsong Foundation.
He also co-facilitated the Awakening seminars held at the Arizona
Department of Corrections for both men and women. Dr. Dopslaff is an
Attorney at Law, holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology and a Doctorate
in Philosophy. He authored the book, The Interpretation of Law. Dr.
Dopslaff has retired from the Ministry of Justice of Brandenburg in
Germany. There he had been in charge of developing and structuring
programs for the re-socialization of inmates for the entire state of
Brandenburg. Dr. Dopslaff relocated to the United States in May 2006.
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