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 Don Bisson, FMS, D. Min.
A Marist Brother, Don is on the leadership team of his province and is a a retreat director, spiritual director and presenter in the area of Spirituality and Psychology. He has a Doctor of Ministry Degree from the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California.
Donna Brunell, OP
A Dominican Sister of Hope, Donna is an experienced teacher, communicator, photographer, and crafter. Inherited from her parents, her love of handcrafting has enhanced her experience of nature and of God as Creator. Her favorite crafts are quilting and paper crafts, including rubber stamping, card crafting, and scrapbooking.
John Burchill, OP
John, a Dominican priest from New England, holds an STD in Theology. His ministry includes extensive retreat preaching and parish mission work in the U.S., Canada, Africa and New Zealand, and teaching a variety of theological topics.
Dianne Carlson, RSM
Dianne is an experienced spiritual director, retreat director and workshop leader. Former co-director of Our Lady of Peace Retreat Center in Naragansett, Rhode Island and Our Lady of Guadalupe Retreat Center in Belize, she is presently at the New Dawn Earth Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
 Janet E. Corso, MA
Janet is the Director of Mariandale. A teacher of philosophy for many years, she is a spiritual director and an experienced workshop presenter. She was the founder and director of Sarabrae, Women’s Spirituality Center.
 Gaynell Cronin, MA
Gaynell is a spiritual director, facilitator of group spiritual direction, and leader of contemplative prayer,
retreats and parish missions. Doorways to Holiness, with co-author Jack Rathschmidt, OFM Cap.,
Ph.D., is her most recent book.
Joseph Currie, SJ
Fr. Currie spent over twenty years in India, first as a student and then as teacher and administrator, pastor, retreat director and counselor. He knew Anthony de Mello and worked with him on a number of occasions. Fr. Currie currently directs the campus ministry program at Fordham University's three campuses.
Carol DeAngelo, SC, LMSW, M. Div.
Carol works part time as Director of Mission Integration for Cabrini of Westchester in Dobbs Ferry and part time in her "One Earth Community" ministry where she networks with others and offers mentoring, facilitation and workshops on eco-spirituality, mind body spirit healing and nonviolence. For two years, she was Coordinator of Eco-Spirituality Programs at Marydell Faith and Life Center in Nyack, NY.
Gail DeMaria, CSJP
Gail has been accompanying people as a Certified Spiritual Director since 1983. She is a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace currently serving as the Congregation Novice Director. She has also served in Formation Ministry, Associate Leadership, and Province Leadership. Gail has facilitated chapters, assemblies, new unions and leadership discernment for several religious congregations. Gail served on the National Board of the Religious Formation Conference and the National Board of the North American Conference of Associates and Religious. Gail has training in Guided Imagery and Mandalas.
Claire Cronin Dinger
Claire, wife, mother and teacher, holds Master Degrees in Art Education and Counseling. She is founder and director of Highland Clayworks and she offers ways to express spirituality through clay at the Mariandale Potter’s House.
 Nancy Erts, OP
Nancy, Program Specialist at Mariandale, holds degrees in Education and Theology and has completed additional work in Psychology, Holistic and Eco-Spirituality. She has been involved in the ministry of adult spiritual development for over 25 years.
Lorraine Ferguson, OP
Lorraine is a Dominican Sister of Hope with master degrees in both art and expressive therapies; she has taught and practiced in both fields for many years. An accomplished artist, Lorraine has used her skills and experience leading retreats and workshops and has spent her life assisting others in discovering beauty and healing through the art modalities. She believes that each person is gifted with creativity.
Barbara Fiand, SND deN
Barbara is a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. She lectures in the U.S. and abroad on holistic spirituality, prayer, religious life, feminine spirituality, transformation of consciousness, quantum spirituality, and the psychology and spirituality of human maturation. Author of eight books, and a variety of articles and tapes, her most recent book is From Religion Back to Faith: A Journey of the Heart.
Mary Kay Flannery, SSJ, D.Min.
A Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, Mary Kay is an educator, spiritual director, retreat director and workshop leader. She has a Doctor of Ministry degree in spirituality and cross-cultural ministry from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and serves her Community in a multiplicity of ministries.
 Francis Gargani, CSsR
Francis, a Redemptorist priest, is an experienced spiritual director, retreat leader, and workshop leader. He has served in a variety of ministries as parish priest, campus minister and retreat director. Presently, Francis is engaged full-time in a ministry of social justice.
 Chris Glover
Chris has been a certified Ashtanga, Lyengar and Kripalu yoga instructor for almost twenty years. A former student at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, gymnast, and professional circus performer, Chris also runs the annual Circus Arts Camp in Westchester County.
 Jean Hess Green, Ph.D., DAPA
Jean orients her 25-year psychotherapeutic practice within the Analytic Psychology of Jung and the mind/body modalities of Rubinfeld Synergy. A certified chaplain and practicing spiritual director, she has given many workshops and lectures through the years and annually conducts a seminar on dreams at Villa St. Dominic in Glasglow, NY. She is a pat resident of the Analytic Psychology of New York.
 Rose Marie Harkins, OP
Rose Marie, a Dominican Sister of Hope, is co-coordinator of the “We Proclaim” Institute at Mariandale Center. A pastoral minister and preacher, she trained in spiritual direction and retreat ministry at Fordham University and at Mariandale Center.
Ron Henery, OP
Ron, a member of the Dominican Order, was ordained in 1978. Having successfully completed studies at Ohio University, the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC., and the Institute for Spiritual Leadership in Chicago, his ministry includes preached and directed retreats, spiritual direction, ministry with women religious and laypersons, and Enneagram programs.
 Connie Koch, OP
Connie is a Dominican Sister of Hope and Co-Coordinator of the “We Proclaim” Institute at Mariandale. A graduate of the Aquinas Preaching Institute at St. Louis University, Connie has done youth retreats and parish missions and is a preacher, storyteller, pastoral minister and spiritual director.
Theresa A. Lardner, OP
Theresa is a Dominican Sister of Blauvelt, New York. Presently Spiritual Care Coordinator for Hospice of Rockland County, New York, she has experience as an educator, administrator, formation director and pastoral minister. Theresa has degrees in Theology and Spirituality from Manhattan College, NY; Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA; and Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, MO.
Justine Lyons, RSCJ
Justine is an experienced spiritual director, retreat leader and workshop leader. Former co-director of Our Lady of Peace Retreat Center in Naragansett, Rhode Island and in San Diego, California, Justine is presently serving as spiritual director and retreat leader for her sisters in retirement.
Julia Masseo
Julia is a mother, grandmother, spiritual director, retreat leader and workshop leader. Julia also facilitates at-home directed retreats on the parish level.
 Janet Marchesani, OP
Janet, who is a Dominican Sister of Hope, holds degrees in Education, specializing in ministry with the hearing impaired, with whom she has worked for many years. She is a certified spiritual director and instructor of sacred dance. She has a background in classical ballet as well as sacred dance.
Dorothy Maxwell, OP
Sister Dorothy is a Dominican Sister of Blauvelt and is in Leadership for the Congregation. Her concern for the Earth is called to accountability as she participates in decisions of the congregation and Religious Organizations Along the River (ROAR) and Religious On the Water (ROW) who advocate for clean ocean practices.
Nancy McAward, OP
A Dominican Sister of St. Mary of the Springs, Nancy currently ministers as a member of the Dominican Preachers of Ossining, New ork. Formerly associate director of the Diocesan Spiritual Life Center of Providence, Rhode Island, her ministries have taken her to South Africa, Belize, El Salvador, Canada and through much of the US. In addition to graduate degrees in French, Theology and Social Work, Nancy is certified in pastoral counseling.
 Beth McCormick, OP
Beth, a Dominican Sister of Hope, is a spiritual director, and leader of retreats and workshops. Beth presents on the topic of the spiritual life of preachers as part of Mariandale’s “We Proclaim” Institute.
Father Neil McGettigan, OSA
Neil has a degree of Doctor of Ministry from New York Theological Seminary. A professor of theology at Villanova University for more than twenty years, he teaches an introduction to Christianity from the Roman Catholic perspective. Thematically, his presentations focus on the different experiences of loss in life and how all loss draws us deeper into the mystery of human life and its ultimate destiny.
Babara Metz, SND deN
Barbara, a Sister of Notre Dame deNamur, holds master degress in Mathematics and Theology. Her ministry has included teaching, retreat work and parish missions in the U.S., Ireland, Canada and Africa.
Kathryn Morgan
Kathryn is a retired widow, and the mother of four sons and three grandchildren. She was active in Cursillo for many years and has been involved in the Kairos Prison Ministry at the Beacon Correctional Faciliity for Women since 2000, as well as being busy with her ongoing ministry of knitting prayer shawls. She resides in Fishkill, NY.
Michael Morwood
Michael is from Australia, a former priest who received his MA at Boston College. He is an inspirational challenging speaker on the need to re-shape Christian imagination, thought and liturgical language. Michael is the author of Is Jesus God? Tomorrow's Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus in a New Millennium, and Praying a New Story.
Bevery Musgrave, Ph. D.
Beverly is an experienced spiritual director, retreat director and workshop leader. Founder of "Partners in Healinog," an out-reach ministry of trained volunteers for the grieving, Beverly is a Professor of Mental Health Counseling in Pastoral Counseling at Fordham University, Rose Hill, Bronx, NY.
 Andrea Naitove
Andrea, a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor, has been immersed in the practice of yoga for 16 years. A teacher in several New York yoga studios, schools, and corporate settings, she believes in bringing the benefits of yoga to all people.
 Carol Otto
Carol Otto is a lay woman, engaged in the ministry of spiritual direction, directed retreats and is a workshop presenter. She has a bachelor’s degree in pastoral counseling and teaches in the Catechist Formation Program of the Archdiocese of New York. Carol is a graduate of “We Proclaim: Ministry of the Word Institute.”
Nancy Pluta
A spiritual director for twenty-seven years, Nancy is a wife, mother and grandmother, Reiki master and bereavement counselor. Nancy is active in Women's Spirituality and Justice and Peace Ministries in her home parish of Sacred Heart, Bayside, Queens.
Jan Phillips
Jan is a writer, photographer and multi-media artist. She is the author of The Art of Original Thinking-The Making of a Thought Leader Divining the Body; God Is at Eye Level - Photography as a Healing Art; Marry Your Muse; Making Peace and A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind. She has taught in over 23 countries and conducts workshops nationally in creativity, consciousness, and spirituality. Her photographs have been exhibited widely, nationally in several international venues. She is a co-founder of Syracuse Cultural Workers, publishers and distributors of artwork for social justice, peace and global communion.
Delilah Praete
Delilah is the Director of the Accord Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy. She has experience working with members of the clergy, corporate executives, stay-at-home moms, people in the arts, and the homeless. She has been sharing the Sedona Method with people around the world since 2003.
 Amy Prisco-Ring
Amy Prisco-Ring has been teaching yoga to children and adults for 3 years. Many yoga poses remind us of our connection to the earth; as a teacher, she explores the idea of our connection to our breath as a way of balancing the mind and body, leading us to soften our global footprint. Amy is assisting in the creation of a local food co-op in Orange County, where she has lived for six years in New Windsor with her husband and two daughters.
 Eleanor Ramos
Eleanor is the Executive Director of the New york Citizens Comittee on Aging, an advocacy organization for aging issues. Formerly with Catholic Charities of NY, she served in various positions overseeing the Archdiocese's senior programs, specifically overseeing the development of six Models of Parish Programs for the Elderly, including outreach to the homebound, senior spirituality groups and caregiver support.
 Jack Rathschmidt, OFM Cap.
Rev. Jack Rathschmidt, Ph.D., a Capuchin Franciscan Friar, is Director of Post Novitiate Formation for the Capuchin Franciscan Friars of New York/New England. Writer, teacher, and spiritual director, he is vitally interested in empowering lay people in the church.
 Karen Rippstein
Karen is a certified poetry therapist, poet and creative writing teacher. She teaches popular writing programs throughout Westchester county at such venues as Rockefeller State Park Preserve, the Greenburgh Nature Center, and Westchester Community College. A recipient of ongoing Poets and Writers, Inc. grants, her work has appeared in a number of poetry magazines and anthologies.
 Linda Rivers, OP
Linda Rivers is a Dominican Sister of Hope. She is active in Music Ministry and is currently the Registrar at Mariandale.
 Judy Schiavo, MA
Judy holds an MA in Secondary Education from Seton Hall University and an MS in Religious Education with a concentration in Spirituality and Spiritual Direction from Fordham University. Judy is a recently-retired high school teacher.
Mary Schneiders, OP
A Dominican Sister of Hope, Mary is a full-time staff member of the Berakah Renewal Center for Women in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, doing spiritual direction and teaching courses in scripture, women's spirituality, theology and Christology. She has a MA in Religious Studies from Providence College and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from The Catholic University of America.
 Lucianne Siers, OP
Lucianne is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Currently she is the Director of the Partnership for Global Justice, which is a network of religious congregations serving as an NGO at the United Nations. She is also a sculptor working in stone.
 Anne L. Simmonds, D. Min.
Anne is an ordained United Church of Canada minister who offers spiritual direction and couseling, workshops and retreats. She is adjunct faculty at Emmanuel (Theological) College, University of Toronto, where she teaches in the areas of grief, death and dying and prayer. As a facilitator, Anne draws on her extensive experience in congregational ministry, hospital chaplaincy and nursing.
Jill Sitkin
Jill is a licensed social worker, with a spiritual, holistic practice, whose goal is to help people become more self-aware, self-expressive and impowered. She has found crafting to be a wonderful way to relax and replenish with the added bonus of producing something beautiful for oneself or others.
Judy Slominski, RN
Judy serves as a trained chaplain in Stamford Hospital, a volunteer chaplain at Westchester Medical Center and is the Director of Pastoral Care for the Guardian Society in the Catholic Center in NYC. She has bee a registered nurse for 40 years, is a graduate of the Interfaith Seminary in NYC and has been a spiritual director for ten years. She is also an experienced retreat director and a certified bereavement counselor.
Nancy Sylvester, IHM
Nancy founded the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue in 2003 in response to her experiences working for justice and right relationships in the church and society. She is President of the Institute and Executive Director of its major project, Engaging Impasse: Circles of Copntemplation and Dialogue. Nancy served as President of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious; she has lectured widely and has spoken at diocesan conferences and insitutes throught the world.
Bob Vaughn, OP
Bob, a member of the Dominican Order, was ordained in 1971. Educated at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC and Boston University, he has ministered for over thirty years as a spiritual director and leader of days of prayer, directed retreats, and other spirituality experiences with religious communities and the laity.
Jacqueline Wales
Jacqeline is the author of several books, including The Fearless Factor and When the Crow Sings. Her Fearless Factor programs have taught women all over the world how to create greater confidence and be clearer communicators so they can achieve their goals. She uses her talents to connect women to their true selves, encouraging them with support, encouragement and the belief that, "It's not about age, but attitude!"
Patricia Werner
Patricia learned to sew in 1965 at St. Joseph’s Mission in Texas where she also taught migrant Mexican women how to turn simple scraps of fabric into beautiful garments for children. Patricia began quilting in 1998.
 Andrea Westkamp, smic
Andrea is a member of the congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, a spiritual director, pastoral counselor, and Master in the White Light Reiki System of Dr. Mikao Usui.
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