Rev. Dr. Melissa Stewart

Facilitator

Rev. Dr. Melissa Stewart, DMin, LCSW-R, is an Interspiritual Minister, educator, and group facilitator. She mindfully cultivates an Interspiritual sensibility that requires an embodied and deeply related form of interpersonal engagement, affirms global interconnection, and supports anti-oppressive awareness, advocacy, and action. Melissa is also a spiritually attuned oncology social worker and supervisor. She promotes spirituality in medical care, particularly with people impacted by cancer and their loved ones. Melissa's dissertation, Living Into the Questions: Augmenting Oncology Social Work Practice through Spiritual Location and Deeper Inquiry, integrates social work and spirituality and identifies a new concept she calls Vicarious Blessing. She lives in Madison, WI with her wife.

Rev. Nathan Brisby

Facilitator

Rev. Nathan Brisby is an ordained Interfaith Minister and Interspiritual Companion and Counselor. He consults with organizations and leaders on how to build spirituality into their work. Nathan founded a not for profit, Broadway Gives Back, which connects non-profit organizations with the Broadway community. He is also a certified grief counselor. He grew up in a deeply evangelical Christian home, going back for generations. He currently lives in Westchester Country, NY with his husband, Stephen, his son, Dean, and their dogs, Effie and Chewy.

Rev. Dr. Don Ajené Wilcoxson

Guest Facilitator

Ajené Wilcoxson has a Doctorate in Multifaith Theology, an MBA in Entrepreneurship, is a Certified Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advanced Facilitator, Assessor, and a Preferred Partner with Six Seconds, the largest global EQ network. Ajené has also assisted small business owners from idea development through grand opening for over 22-years.

With a focus on developing an EQ Mindset, he facilitates inspirational presentations, seminars, workshops, and discussions, but most importantly, he is a teacher. A teacher from the perspective of being a guide, helper, and mentor in the life-learning process. His passion and foundation are living and teaching how to experience a Centered, Spiritually Emotionally Intelligent Life.

For Ajené, this life begins with gaining insight into one's Spiritual Emotional Intelligence (SEQ) and Emotional Intelligence. Utilizing SEQ and EQ tools, through dialogue and contemplative realizations, "our wisdom, compassion, and peace awaken internally and are expressed in the world through our gifts and talents.”

Rev. Diane Berke

Guest Facilitator

Rev. Diane Berke is the Founder and Spiritual Director of One Spirit Learning Alliance. Ordained as an interfaith minister in 1988, she is a respected pioneer in the field of interfaith/interspiritual education; this past June (2020) she stepped down after 18 years as Director of the One Spirit Seminary Training. Diane has worked closely with Andrew Harvey in his Institute for Sacred Activism, is a founding member of the Contemplative Alliance of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, and is a co-founder of Transformation 365, an online platform to introduce people to a broad range of contemplative practices. She is also a certified facilitator of the Circle of Trust® work of the Center for Courage and Renewal. Diane maintains a private practice in spiritual counseling/companionship and supervision of spiritual counseling students and practitioners. In addition, she is a licensed mental health counselor in New York State. A student and teacher of A Course in Miracles for over 30 years, Diane has led retreats and workshops on spiritual development throughout the United States and internationally. She is the author of several books and educational manuals, including Love Always Answers, The Gentle Smile, Developing and Deepening Your Spiritual Practice, and Forgiveness as a Path of Awakening. Diane is known for the clarity and wisdom of her teaching, the sincerity and depth of her compassion, and her ability to create exceptionally safe and nourishing learning and companioning spaces in which people can heal and blossom. She continues to actively serve One Spirit as a "spiritual grandmother" and guide.

Pastor Greg Stamper

Guest Facilitator

Pastor Greg Stamper is the co-founder and co-pastor of Celebration Spiritual Center (CSC), a New Thought ministry based in Brooklyn, NY. 

Pastor Greg, aka PG, is an ordained interfaith minister, fourth-generation preacher, recording artist, life coach, and entrepreneur.

As a life coach, PG created the Multimanifestor app, coaching program, and courses to support neurodivergent spiritual seekers, like himself, to create a more prosperous life of happiness, radiant health, success, and wealth without trying to figure it out on their own.

In addition to coaching, Greg has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology. Most recently, he was the Senior Manager of Technology for WITNESS, a global human rights organization founded by musician Peter Gabriel. As a dedicated practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation technique® (TM), Greg is a tireless advocate of this effortless practice for personal health and well-being and has the potential to cultivate global healing and world peace.

PG has shared conference stages with luminaries like Michael Beckwith and Les Brown, appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, and is the 2018 New Thought Walden Award honoree for Interfaith and Intercultural Understanding. Pastor Greg studied at New York Theological Seminary and attended Morgan State University.

Rev. Dr. Jerry Maynard

Guest Facilitator

Rev. Dr. Jerry Maynard is The People’s Priest: Spiritual Renegade & Social Revolutionary. As a Two-Spirit Person (Xochihua) Father Jerry strives to offer healing medicine at the intersections of church & society through pastoral care & public witness in Houston, TX. 

As a Postmodern Ministry Specialist & Researcher, Father Jerry’s writing on digital ministry helps practitioners develop a more integrated pastoral approach for an increasingly hybrid age. A public theologian, Reverend Dr. Jerry’s essays and articles cover timely and timeless topics including postmodernism, protest/movement chaplaincy, queer hermeneutics, practical spirituality and much more. 

For several years, Father Jerry has facilitated trainings in-person & online with different nonviolence/peace organizations offering an integrated approach to faith-based social action.  

Father Jerry holds a Doctorate of New Theology from The New Theology School where they serve as The Berrigan Brothers Professor of Social Justice specializing in contextual & constructive theologies. Other academic achievements include  holding a Master’s Degree in Contextual Ministry from Northwind Theological Seminary with a concentration in Postmodern Ministry & Leadership with master-level certifications as a Coach & Trainer. 

Father Jerry is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Religion.

Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee

Guest Facilitator

Sushmita Mukherjee (she/her/hers) is based in New York City, on indigenous Lenape land. She is an Associate Professor of Research, and Director of Optical Microscopy & Image Analysis at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also an ordained interspiritual minister, an interspiritual companion, and a past faculty member at One Spirit Seminary. Her work thrives at the interface of Interspirituality and an engagement of the image - whether scientific, psychological or spiritual. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, a systems biology perspective on life as composed of complex interconnected and interdependent systems, and a spirituality that is imbued with awe, magic and wonder. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman, and the creative perspectives of poets and writers, too many to name. Her current influences include Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand. She is trained in Interspiritual Companioning/Direction, Jungian Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.

Uvinie Lubecki

Guest Facilitator

Uvinie Lubecki is a leadership development trainer, consultant, and coach focused on Compassionate Leadership. She has worked with executives and teams at leading corporations and nonprofits including Macy’s, Johnson & Johnson, Celgene, GoPro, Cooper Design, Volvo Cars, the California Department of Justice, Pachamama Alliance, and Google. Previously, she worked for ten years in the corporate sector at Deloitte Consulting, Aetna, and McKesson in a variety of leadership positions. She founded Leading Through Connection in partnership with the Fetzer Institute in 2018. She holds a BA in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University. She has been featured on Forbes and GQ Magazine.