Presenters & Staff 2011
“If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Presenters & Springbank Team
Cindy Barkei RN BSN
Certified Healing Touch practitioner and Holistic Nurse who has practiced in the area of nursing within traditional medicine for more than 30 years and now integrates complementary/alternative healing into her nursing practice.
Betsy Bowman EdD
Educator for 20 years, 25 years' experience, drug/alcohol recovery. Betsy has been mentored by Native elders on her spiritual journey and leads 12-Step retreats.
Rev. Jim Conlon PhD
Author, teacher, priest and director of Sophia Center at Holy Name University. Among his publications are At the Edge of Our Longing, Sacred Impulse, Ponderings from the Precipice, From the Stars to the Street, and Beauty, Wonder and Belonging: a Book of Hours for the Monastery of the Cosmos.
Barbara Fiand, SNDdeN
Author, lecturer, has written extensively on religious life and spirituality, including In the Stillness You Will Know and From Religion Back to Faith.
Dot Goodwin
Full-time visual artist for twenty-five years, member of the oldest studio/gallery in S.C. and is the director of art for the downtown Camden Guild. Dot facilitates monthly prayer circles and carries the medicine of the drum.
Marya Grathwohl OSF
Author, lecturer, Earth minister, retreat director, has degrees in Creation Spirituality, Philosophy, Cosmology, and Earth literacy. Marya currently lives at San Benito Monastery in Dayton, Wyoming.
Richard B. Guess MEd
Executive Director of a community mental health center, a native South Carolinian with 25 years of experience in the field of human services. Being of Cherokee heritage, Richard brings a deep respect for all life.
Margie Hosch OSF
Has provided marriage and family counseling for the past 20 years and co-authored the Wholeness/ Holiness Retreat. Margie conducts days and weekends of renewal for Christian Women’s groups.
Wendy Kraus MS CAS
Psychotherapist specializing in addictions and healing trauma. She is a long-time friend of Springbank and has received spiritual direction from elders on the (Native) Red Road. Wendy assists Grandmother June Perry with many of her educational and spiritual presentations.
Justina Lasley MA
A leading dream specialist who enjoys working with individuals and groups to unlock the wisdom of their unconscious. Justina is internationally recognized as a leader of individual and group work, a lecturer and qualitative researcher.
Theresa Linehan, SNDdeN
Mohican heritage, Nurse Practitioner, specialist in Diabetic Care, certified clinical Aromatherapist. Ministers to farmworkers.
Miriam MacGillis OP
Co-founder of Genesis Farm where she teaches and practices biodynamic methods of agriculture, which are in tune with the natural rhythms of Earth. Miriam teaches and coordinates programs on the work of Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology.
Louise McCormick RN MS
Co-founder and president of the McCormick Green Center for Holistic Therapies, is certified in herbal, aroma, cranio-sacral, and Thai massage therapies.
Carolyn McDade
Committed to the power of human voice singing and speaking truth to move society to transformation and to deepen human consciousness of ourselves as part of Earth community. Carolyn’s songs empower personal integrity, social vision, and planetary wholeness.
Kathy McGrogan MA
With a master’s degree in counseling and an undergraduate degree in fine arts has been deeply interested in Native American spiritual practices and has led 12-Step Retreats for women and men for the past seven years.
John Marston, BA Sociology
In 12-Step Recovery since 1986 and a licensed Addictions Counselor; has participated in 12-Step retreats.
Hilda Montalvo DMin
Author, lecturer, and spiritual director with a focus on weaving the new, emerging, creative consciousness with Christianity and other spiritual traditions.
Pam Noble
Retired psychotherapist who focuses on creating healing experiences in the natural world. Founder of WomanQuest and Numina, a mentoring program for women.
Susan Pannier-Cass BS KRI
Certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation teacher, SuperHealth Trained (addiction recovery program),
has taught yoga since 2001 and is dedicated to assisting students in finding practical and simple ways to have greater endurance, wholeness and balance in their lives.
Grandmother June Perry
Elder, teacher, storyteller, artist, and drummaker who travels across the country sharing her Native wisdom, culture, and spirituality. Grandmother June leads ceremonies in both the Lakota and Cherokee traditions.
Rev. James Profit, SJ
Executive Director of the Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, with training in the New Cosmology, agriculture, rural sociology, and theology.
Rosa Dolores Rodriguez, SNDdeN
Certified Aromatherapist, 21 years' experience in health care, Director, Casa de la Cultura Center, teaching & ministering to farmworkers.
Pepper Sarnoff MA MS
Licensed professional marriage and family therapist, an educator, a facilitator for the Well-Springs program, and a founding member of Lifedance. Pepper brings her experience in the expressive arts and interactive creativity to groups she facilitates.
Pam Smith, SSCM PhD
PhD in systematic theology with specialization in environmental ethics. Author of 10 books and articles on Biblical, ethical, and ecological themes.
Sandra Smith MDiv
Co-founder and director of Holy Ground, a retreat ministry in Asheville, NC, creates and leads beginning and advanced Enneagram classes pairing the Enneagram with the spiritual journey. She has been teaching the Enneagram as a tool for personal, professional and spiritual growth since 2002.
Margaret Swedish MA
Initiated "Spirituality and Ecological Hope" project sponsored by the Center for New Creation. Author of two books including Living Beyond the End of the World: A Spirituality of Hope.
Linda Szocik SSJ-TOSF
Family Nurse Practitioner and spiritual director who leads retreats on the contemplative art of basket-making.
Faye Townsend BA LMT
Licensed massage therapist, body-worker, founder and co-director of the Massage Therapy program in Florence, SC. Faye, with a background in music, has participated as a facilitator in the Well-Springs workshops over the last 12 years.
Christopher Marie Wagner OSF MFA
Art Instructor for 30 years. Chris restores stained-glass windows and is dedicated to the study of iconography in the Russian style
Marcy Walsh
A Labyrinth facilitator, spiritual director, hiking guide. Has led pilgrimages exploring the sacred feminine; participated in WomanQuest experiences.
Claire Whalen OSF
Certified T’ai Chi Chih instructor. Claire invites TCC practitioners to a re-telling of the Universe Story through the basic TCC movements. She has spent the last 14 years at Michaela Farm in Oldenburg, Indiana, promoting sustainable agriculture and “deep ecology.”
Springbank Team
Trina McCormick, OP
Executive Director, MFA, artist, spiritual director, Well-Springs facilitator and licensed massage therapist. Trina has been committed to retreat work for more than 30 years and has developed the ecological initiative at Springbank
Judy Markiewicz, SNDdeN
Buildings and Grounds Caretaker, MA in Pastoral Counseling, with experience in Social and Human Services and administration and is a spiritual director. Being of Ojibwa heritage, Judy has deep respect for Native traditions.
Ursula Ording, OP
MA in Earth Science, former Director of Springbank, supervises the maintenance crew.
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