About Us

Elizabeth Monroy

Elizabeth Monroy is the director of The Infinite Human Institute. She holds a masters in mental health counselling and has spent the past twenty years travelling around the world with her husband, a physician, laying a foundation for a deeper level of healing based on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual evolvement. Together they wrote The Pathway Home, which outlines the spiritual foundation given to them by their spiritual teachers and offers a compassionate, caring alternative for modern health care. (www.newrenaissanceflorence.com).

In addition to The Pathway Home, Elizabeth is the author of several other books as well as The Magical Mist, a picture book aimed at empowering the creative imagination of children.

Elizabeth was exposed to the great pioneers of the humanistic movement during the sixties in Southern California, where she lived with her parents, both psychotherapists. She had the privilege of meeting Fritz Pearls, founder of Gestalt therapy; Eric Bern, founder of transactional analysis; and Virginia Satire, founder of family therapy, at a very early age. Her father founded the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, and has written several books linking spiritual growth and psychotherapy.

Elizabeth has studied with Master spiritual teachers for the past twenty years and has received many high spiritual initiations. In her travels around the world she has had the opportunity to work with the indigenous populations of our planet and received much of her artistic inspiration from these cultures. She has studied art history and cinema at the University of Florence and went on to become an accomplished artist and author. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States, Central America, Micronesia, and Europe. Elizabeth has also studied creative writing, screenwriting, and filmmaking at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). She has been represented by an agent in Los Angeles and a literary agent in New York, and is currently promoting her latest novel: The Chronicles of MerWorld.

Visionary Art speaks to our soul and its true nature. It reminds us of the infinite possibilities that lie within us all. Each work of art I create is filled with an intrinsic electric energy and intent that transmits a message to the subconscious of each viewer. I believe that the future of our planet is dependent on enough people accessing this infinite part of themselves and sharing it creatively with others.

Phyllis Plumley

Phyllis Plumley is an established International Artist with exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Illinois, Little Rock Arkansas and Florence Italy. She holds both a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Masters in Studio Art. She has taught Art at the University of Little Rock Arkansas and in Private Art Schools in Florence, Italy. She has also participated as an Artistic guide in Spiritual/Psychological workshops throughout the U.S.

Her depth of teaching, painting and drawing experience has helped others to find their spiritual core through Art exploration. She emphasizes spiritual and emotional growth expression through various art processes.

After her divorce, Phyllis found herself drawn to Florence in 1999 by its spiritual energies and the art and antiquity. She found the healing and rebirthing power of Florence transformed her life and she has made Florence her home. She has been painting for over twenty-five years. Her bodies of work include a unique use of Ancient Greek Mythology and symbolism. She also draws on dreams, personal symbolism and the collective unconscious to inspire her.

"I believe the process of creation is as important as the final result. As I create I find myself accessing a higher part of myself that would otherwise remain dormant."

Irene Carzoli

Irene Carzoli holds a degree in Communication and Graphic Art from the Cappiello Academy of Florence Italy. She also attended the acclaimed l'Università dell'Immagine, in Milan, Italy founded by famous Italian Photographer Fabrizio Ferri. This experimental school was based on a method of utilizing the five senses to expand your perceptions of life, and the educational foundation created by Maria Montessori used in her Montessori schools. Her specialization was in visual communication oriented towards photography and cinema. Her work experience includes a wide variety of creative and artistic projects. She took part in a large mutlimedia project called Artis financed by INFO 2000 and Cultura 2000 which were part of the European International Community. She worked as an assistant director with Azione Film, in Milan, Italy . She worked as a Cinemagraphic coordinator with Alessandro De Benedetti, making a video of his collection. She also collaborated on the international project Blind Date, with the Fashion Institute of Arnhem in Belgium and la Ljota of Barcelona, Spain: She worked with Nancy Martin, from the world renown German school of Bahuaus where she was the Art Director of an experimental exhibition of tactile sensation in Art. She has worked in web site design as well as having taught Graphic Design at the 'Istituto per l'arte e il restauro - Palazzo Spinelli. She has had multiple exhibitions of video art, and photography through out Italy. She is the winner of an award in the international competition for photography organized by Symrise Dragoco.

Irene is a native Florentine and she brings with her a deep understanding and appreciation of her culture, history and the creative capacity to live life. Most recently she was interviewed in the Magazine Gambero Rosso for her work at the Modo Spa and cultural center where she organized a unique series of cultural events including dance, drama, music and film excerpts from the Milan film festival. Irene has a unique ability to capture the highest essence of imagery and translate that into a higher vision. She spends her time between Florence where she teaches and Milan where she develops new creative projects.

Web site: http://irene.idratools.org

"Ogni atto creativo è un atto d'amore, di passione che nasce da un'intuizione. L'intuito rappresenta la capacità di sentire e dare un senso ai messaggi dell'universo."

"Every act of creation is an act of love, of passion that gives birth to intuition .Intuition represents our capacity to feel and gives a sense of meaning to the Universe."