Cindy Barkei, RN, BSN is a certified Healing Touch practitioner and Holistic Nurse who has practiced the art of nursing within traditional western medicine for over 30 years and now integrates complementary/alternative healing into her practice.

Rev Jim Conlon, PhD is author, teacher, priest and the director of the 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, "Wonder, Beauty and Belonging - A Book of Hours for the Monastery of the Cosmos"

Sharon Culhane, OP, BA is Director of Sea of Peace, House of Prayer, an educator and artist who studied at the Chicago Art Institute. She is presently involved in creative graphics and photography for Springbank Retreat.

Grandmother Terry Eaton passed into the spirit realm Palm Sunday, 2008. We choose to keep her name on the presenter page to honor her memory as faithful friend and spiritual guide.

Connie Fahey, FSM has 25 years of experience in healthcare ministries. She is currently engaged in spiritual direction, liturgical music and the Wholeness/Holiness Retreats.

Marya Grathwohl, OSF author, lecturer, Earth minister and 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, M Ed is Executive Director of a community Mental Health Center, a native South Carolinian with twenty-five 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 twenty years and co-authored the Wholeness/Holiness Retreat. She conducts days and weekends of renewal for Christian Women's goups.

Pat Kinnamon, with degrees in music and education, is the National Director of the Well-Springs program and has over 30 years experience in the healing arts.

Justina Lasley, MA is a leading dream specialist who enjoys working with individuals and groups to unlock the wisdom of their unconscious. She is internationally recognized as a leader of individual and group work, a lecturer and a qualitative researcher.

Miriam MacGillis, OP lives and works at Genesis Farm where she teaches and practices biodynamic methods of agriculture, which are in tune with the natural rhythms of the Earth. Miriam teaches and coordinates programs exploring the work of Thomas Berry as he has interpreted the New Cosmology.

Louise McCormick, RN, MS is 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 is 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. Her songs empower personal integrity, social vision, and planetary wholeness.

Ed McGaa, Eagle Man is an Oglala Sioux, a teacher, lawyer, lecturer, strong environmental advocate and author of seven books. His latest book is "Creator's Code". Eagle Man is tireless in his pursuit to live and promote Black Elk's vision of Oneness and interdependence of all beings.

Kathy McGrogan, MA has a masters degree in counseling and an undergraduate degree in fine arts. She has been deeply interested in Native American spiritual practices for over 30 years.

Hilda Montalvo, DMin is an author, lecturer and spiritual director with a focus on weaving the new, emerging, creative consciousness with Christianity and other spiritual traditions.

Jan Novotka, MA is a songwriter and retreat director who draws her inspiration from the Universe and the Emerging Consciousness, is a trained wilderness/vision fast guide and a Master Gardener/Organic Gardening Consultant. Jan gently touches those whom she encounters through her music, simple lifestyle, and her retreats/programs.

Grandmother June Perry is a Elderteacher, storyteller, artist, drum maker that travels across the country sharing her Native American wisdom, culture and spirituality. Grandmother June leads ceremonies in both the Lakota and Cherokee tradition.

Pepper Sarnoff, MA MS is a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist, an educator, a facilitator for the Well-Springs program, and a founding member of Lifedance. She brings her experience in the expressive arts and interactive creativity to the groups and workshops she facilitates.

Mary Southard, CSJ is a painter, sculptor and life-adventurer whose fascination is the beauty, wonder and creativity of the Cosmos. She is an experienced educator and retreat director in the context of the New Universe Story.

Linda Szocik, SSJ-TOSF is a Family Nurse Practitioner, spiritual director who leads retreats on the contemplative art of basket making.

Christopher Marie Wagner, OSF, MFA has been an art instructor for twenty-one years, restores stained glass windows and currently is dedicated to the study of iconography in the Russian style.

Claire Whalen, OSF is a certified T'ai Chi Chih instructor. She invites TCC practitioners to a re-telling of the Universe Story through the basic TCC movements. Claire has spent the last thirteen years at Michaela Farm in Oldenburg, Indiana promoting sustainable agriculture and deep ecology.