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Rev. Daniel Wolpert

Rev. Daniel Wolpert, a healer and student of the spiritual life, worked as a research scientist, psychologist, spiritual director, farmer, teacher, and construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS). Over the past thirty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation, led retreats, and delivered talks in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, Luther Seminary, and the 5-Day Academy for Spiritual Formation.

In addition to having full-time and interim pastoral positions over the past two decades, he also pursues his spiritual direction and healing work in private practice. Daniel is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing. He is the author of Leading a Life with God: the Practice of Spiritual Leadership (Upper Room 2006) and Creating a Life with God: the Call of Ancient Prayer Practices (Upper Room 2003); and co-author of Meeting God in Virtual Reality (Abingdon 2004) and The Collapse of the Three Story Universe: Christianity in an Age of Science (MICAH 2013). His newest book, Creation’s Wisdom: Spiritual Practice and Climate Change (Orbis) will be published this Fall.

Rev. Eileen Gebbie

Eileen Gebbie's professional experience includes university-level teaching, serving as staff at a community organizing alliance, running a non-profit housing organization, and serving all that is holy as the first female and first queer senior pastor at two congregations in a non-creedal Christian denomination. Gebbie has trained as a forest therapy guide and works as a spiritual director and executive director of a regional sexual assault non-profit. Even in the midst of climate change and devastation, the more-than-human world continues to be her guide, mentor, and vibrant hope.

Rev. Ash Temin

Rev. Ash Temin is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who serves as the Communications Manager at The BTS Center. She also offers spiritual direction through her independent practice in Portland, Maine.

Ash is a graduate of the University of Virginia (BA), the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin (MPhil) and Harvard Divinity School (MDiv). Her time at both the ISE and HDS sparked a passion for ecological theology and prompted her to begin delving more deeply into the experience of ecological grief. Prior to moving to Portland, she served as an Acting Associate Pastor at Hope Central Church, a UCC/DOC congregation in Boston. Before answering the call to ordination, Ash worked in various administrative roles at Harvard University. She also has worked as a hospital and hospice chaplain, an adjunct professor, and a freelance editor.

After time spent living in Texas, Virginia, Colorado, Ireland, and Massachusetts, Ash is grateful to make her home in Maine, where she spends part of most days walking on the shores of Casco Bay. When not absorbed in work, she can be found cooking with friends, laying in her garden hammock, hiking in the woods, playing in the ocean, or attempting to learn the Irish language with a cat on her lap.

Rev. Scott Hardin Nieri

Scott Hardin-Nieri is a partner, dad, spiritual director, pastor, and sojourner. He is working with people and communities that are loving one another, their neighbors and creation as the Director/Minister of Bethany Congregations, a ministry of the Bethany Fellows, and Co-Minister of Green Chalice of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He seeks to build stories of resilience through intentional gratitude, honored grief, wise discernment, and embodied action.  

Prior to living in North Carolina, Scott and his family served in the vulnerable cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica, where he learned how to climb Fig Strangler trees, spot Two-toed Sloths, call like a Mot Mot, and listen to people and nature in a new way. Scott is an ordained pastor with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), received a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction and MDiv. at San Francisco Theological Seminary and enjoys accompanying people during transformative experiences. Scott continues to become aware of the deep connections among pollution, poverty, violence, racism, oppression, climate change, eco anxiety and the spiritual brokenness in the world. He hopes to foster curiosity, listen deeply and tell stories of active hope and Good News in the midst of great challenges.

Rev. Wanda Stahl

Wanda Stahl is a spiritual guide, retreat leader, educator, and consultant who has worked in a variety of congregational, denominational, and academic settings. Most recently, she served on the faculty and as Director of Contextual Education at Boston University School of Theology where her favorite moments were engaging with students exploring questions of meaning, purpose, and vocation. Over the past two decades, Wanda has completed programs in Individual Spiritual Guidance, Contemplative Prayer Group and Retreat Leadership, and Group Spiritual Direction through the Shalem Institute in Washington DC. In 2021, she completed the year-long Seminary of the Wild EcoSpirituality Certificate, an experience which deepened her already strong connection to the Earth as a source of wisdom, guidance, and healing for navigating these challenging times. Wanda has been a follower of Jesus since she was a teenager, grounded especially in contemplative and Wesleyan streams of Christianity. While ordained in the Methodist tradition, she has guided and mentored people from a variety of faith traditions and spiritual expressions. Wanda is the mother of two young-adult daughters who are among her best teachers. She lives in Southern Maine where she is nurtured by time near the water and walks in the woods. Wanda also enjoys reading, cooking, solving puzzles of various kinds, and sitting on her deck watching the birds. 

Chelsea MacMillan

Chelsea MacMillan is a climate justice organizer, spiritual director (Still Harbor), and ordained interspiritual minister (One Spirit Interfaith Seminary) based in Brooklyn, NY. She’s the founder of THE ALTER, a virtual community of spiritual changemakers, cofounder of Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism, and co-host of The Rising: Spirituality for Revolution, a podcast for sacred activists. With a diverse background in contemplative practice, nonviolence, and the performing arts, Chelsea has spent the last 15+ years facilitating humans of all ages and backgrounds. Her writing has been published in Anchor Magazine, Reimagining Magazine, and Order of the Sacred Earth with Matthew Fox, and in her free time, you can find her strolling around Prospect Park, learning to play piano, or making crafts.

Hailey Mitsui

Hailey Mitsui (she/her) is a Spiritual Director and Somatic Practitioner. She works with individuals, groups and communities at the intersection of spirituality, identity, justice and healing and is looking forward to holding this particular space for ecological grief.

In addition to traditional contemplative practices, Hailey incorporates embodiment, ancestral healing and nature-based practices into her spiritual direction sessions. She desires to create a sacred space for questions, anger, grief, joy, resilience, exploration and healing.

Hailey is based on Duwamish land (also known as Seattle, WA). You can learn more about her practice and training at haileymitsui.com or on instagram @haileymitsui.