Betsey
Beckman, MM is
nationally acclaimed as liturgical dancer, storyteller, teacher of SpiritPlay
and dancing Spiritual Director. With her extensive background in performance,
movement therapy, ministry and InterPlay, she is regularly featured as artist/presenter
at national conventions as well as local churches. Betsey's publications
include books, audio-cassettes and videos on embodied prayer and she currently
co-leads the program entitled Awakening the Creative Spirit: Experiential
Education for Spiritual Directors in the Arts and Imagination. Betsey offers the gift of playful
improvisation whenever possible!
Dr. Boyle was my most influential and favorite teacher at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. He taught Acting, Advanced Placement English, and Journalism. He also directed the Shakespearean plays and the Winter Play, and was the faculty sponsor for the New Trier News. In our ensemble production of A Comedy of Errors, we all wore grey jumpsuits with added costuming that fit our characters. Our production of Trumpets and Drums by Bertolt Brecht was likely the first American production of that play. Later he taught at Northwestern University.
Brooke Medicine Eagle
Seena B. Frost, M. Div., M.A. studied theology at Yale Divinity School, married, raised four children, and then received a Master's degree in psychology from Santa Clara University. She is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Special trainings with Jean Houston and Robin Van Doren inspired the combining of three of her life passions: spirituality, psychotherapy, and creativity. The SoulCollage® process and book have issued from this magical mix.
Dr. Jane Goldberg
Jane Goldberg, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., R.E.A.T., Board Certified C.E.T., received her doctorate in transformational psychology and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and a Board Certified Expressive Therapist. She founded the Expressive Arts Training Institute in 1986 and has been leading professional training programs and group workshops locally, nationally, and internationally for over 24 years. Dr. Goldberg designed the master's and doctorate programs in expressive arts therapy at San Diego University of Integrative Studies in 1999. She is also a founding member and previous board member of IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association) and is a distinguished fellow of NETA (National Expressive Therapy Association). www.ExpressiveArtsTraining.com
Christine Valters Paintner, PhDintegrates spiritual formation within the Christian tradition with the healing
practice of the expressive arts. She is a Registered Expressive Arts
Consultant and Educator.Her other
interests are in contemplative spirituality and practices, especially those
that emerge from the Benedictine tradition, and in Ignatian spirituality as a
path that honors the imagination and calls us to work for justice in the
world.Christine is a Benedictine oblate at St. Placid Priory, Program
Coordinator for the Ignatian
Spirituality Center and an Adjunct
Faculty at the School of Theology
and Ministry at Seattle University where she teaches ”Contemporary Christian Spirituality and
Prayer.” She also serves as the Art Editor for Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction.Christine is the author of Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness, co-authored with Sister Lucy Wynkoop of St. Placid Priory, an artist, and self-publisher of a series of Reflective
Art Journals.
Dr Susan Rangitsch’s therapeutic processes, group experiences, and lectures involve movement, music, journaling, storytelling, ritual, ceremony, council, meditation, and any of the creative arts. She believes these experiences are useful only to the extent that they affect positive change. The goal is not to fix problems, but to see problems as opportunities to transform life.
Susan’s work is grounded in transpersonal psychology and reaches across the various spiritual traditions; she draws from Buddhist psychology and practice, Taoist writings, the contemplative traditions of Christianity, and shamanic practices.She holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Doctorate in Guidance and Counseling.Susan has a private practice and has facilitated workshops around the country for the last 30 years. She lives in Missoula, MT where she enjoys the Big Sky wilderness.
Dr. Ann Holmes Redding My dear friend, Dr. Ann Holmes Redding, is the founder of Abrahamic Reunion West, a non-profit institute in Seattle committed to healing the global dysfunction of the Abrahamic family of faith. Ann holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She served as an Episcopal priest for 25 years, and has been teaching theology at universities and seminaries since 1985, most recently as Visiting Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry where she taught courses on Synoptic Gospels, New Testament Introduction, Pauline Epistles, and Gospel of John. Ann was Assistant Professor at Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia where she taught Biblical Greek and Hebrew. She served as Associate Faculty of New York Theological Seminary where she taught courses in biblical hermeneutics, New Testament, Greek and Hebrew. Ann is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, and American Academy of Religion. Ann inherited a rich legacy in social justice from her father Louis L. Redding, Delaware's first African American lawyer who argued the historic Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court to dismantle racial segregation in the United States during the civil rights era. Ann continued her father's work with extensive activism in programs ending racism in the Episcopal church and elsewhere. Ann worships in Seattle at Al-Islam Center and at Episcopal churches, practicing both Islam and Christianity. Ann believes the two religions complement and illuminate each other. Reading the Qur'an through the lens of the Bible, and the Bible through the lens of the Qur'an, Ann embodies within herself a peaceful coexistence of Christianity and Islam. "Some people need single lenses," she says, "I need bifocals." Ann co-authored Out of Darkness, Into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Jewish and Christian Sources with Jamal Rahman and Kathleen Schmitt Elias. Ann is a frequent speaker at interfaith events, churches, spiritual retreats, colleges and seminaries.
Alexander Shaia PhD. Born in Birmingham, Alabama
into the Maronite Christian tradition, Shaia holds degrees in cultural
anthropology, counseling education, religious education, pastoral
psychotherapy, and a doctorate in clinical psychology, with a specialization in
Jungian Sandplay.In Beyond the
Biography of Jesus: The Journey of Quadratos, Book I & II, Dr. Alexander Shaia offers a fresh and important
interpretation of the traditional gospels and answers current controversies
about the Christian scriptures.A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Dr. Shaia speaks internationally,
conducting retreats, seminars and presentations on Quadratos, Christian spirituality,
and rites of passage.He is
adjunct faculty at numerous universities and colleges, and is the creator of
the Blue Door Retreat in Santa Fe, a place of beauty for contemplation and
deepening in spiritual practice.To learn more about Dr. Shaia's work, please go to www.quadratos.com and
www.bluedoorretreat.com.
Faith Watts Artist, Mother, Scholar of Jungian Psychology
