Presenter
Lynda Gradert, OblSB
Lynda Gradert is a long-term Oblate of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota, practitioner of the 12 steps and life- long seeker. She has a steady practice of loneliness and wants to share her wisdom and learn from others.
Rev. Sheryl Lyndes Stowman, M. Div.
Sheryl Lyndes Stowman is an interspiritual spiritual director and consultant, a minister within the United Church of Christ and a Diamond Approach Teacher. She has spent many years teaching spiritual development with professionals and providing spiritual guidance with groups and individuals. She has practiced both Christian and Buddhist meditation and other contemplative and expressive modalities […]
Gwen Pickering
Gwen is is accepting new directees. Given the fact that I have ADHD, failed second grade, and struggled through the early years of school, it is a surprise even to me that I have a masters degree in counseling. After many years of leading marriage retreats with my husband and teaching about relationships, I heard […]
Wendy Mitch
Wendy Mitch has been challenging, training, and developing others for more than 30 years. She is a certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West. She has her Master’s degree in Servant Leadership from Viterbo University, and is a licensed facilitator for the Arbinger Institute. She has 30 years of professional service in the Catholic Church […]
Father Michael Peterson, OSB
Father Michael Peterson, OSB is a monk of Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN. Currently, he serves as Vocation and Oblate Director. He also ministers to students at the College of Saint Benedict as a sacramental chaplain. Fr. Peterson enjoys being outside, swimming, and playing Native American flute.
Christine Jurisich
Christine Jurisich is the author of Retreat, Reflect, Renew and founder of the Reflect and Renew Ministry, where she serves as a national retreat facilitator, trainer, writer and spiritual director. She initially worked with Ministry of Mothers Sharing founded by the Sisters of Saint Benedict.
Mary Lapham
Mary Lapham, MEd, has been in a 12-step program as an Adult Child since 1984. Her 11th Step practice led her to Centering Prayer in 1996. She is a commissioned Presenter for both Centering and Welcoming Prayer. She leads a Welcoming/Centering Prayer hour in the meditation chapel on Zoom every Thursday at 11:00 (Thomas Keating […]
Diane Boruff
Diane Boruff is a 30 year plus Centering Prayer practitioner who is grateful to have this prayer in her daily life. She now serves as a member of the Minnesota Contemplative Outreach Service Team and is a former Minnesota Chapter Coordinator. Currently commissioned by National Contemplative Outreach as a Presenter of Centering Prayer and the […]
S. Joanne Dehmer SSND
Joanne is a native Minnesotan, having grown up in St. Michael. She and her twin brother are the youngest in a family of six children. Her years with the School Sisters of Notre Dame have spanned a wide variety of activities and ministries. With extensive skills in teaching and training, she also has wide-ranging pastoral experience […]
2024-11-01 A Time to Remember: A Retreat for Women Whose Mothers Have Died,
Rev. Zanne Ness
Zanne Ness serves as the volunteer chaplain at Ministry on the Margins and as a volunteer at the North Dakota State Penitentiary. She is an oblate at Annunciation Monastery and a spiritual director. Following retirement from a career as a clinical psychologist, she was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2011 and served on the Bishop’s […]