Ordained by the Interfaith Temple of New York, June 2008

 

 

 

 

“My Ministry:  My Vision and My Vow

 

". . .  my essential ministry will be one of listening to people and asking good questions, questions that encourage

the discovery and burnishing of their own durable and brilliant inner light."  

 

 

Highlights

 

Officiant and ritual guide for sacred life events:  weddings, memorials, baby blessings, home blessings, centering rituals for major life events such as going for surgery or making major life changes, etc.

 

Spiritual Guide for individuals and groups, honoring that which is deeply important on the terms that allow for opening of the heart

 

Part of an interdisciplinary team providing hospice home care in Western Massachusetts  

Hospice Volunteer Coordinator supporting people choosing to die at home with comfort care, dignity and quality of life.

Contributions include occasional spiritual counseling and bereavement support as well as recruiting, matching and educating volunteers.

 

Founder of The STAMINA Project (Strength Training for Aging Mindfully Always)

Guided Conversations for People Over 50:  STAMINA Stories, workshops, retreats, individual counseling

 

Convenor of a monthly conversation group she calls AGOG (Actively Growing Older Gracefully )

for neighbors over 50 in her co-housing community dedicated to building a foundation for remaining in our homes 

and sharing resources as future needs arise.  Rocky Hill Co-Housing recently hosted a mini-conference, Community Conversation on Aging In Community, for people interesting in replicating the vibrancy and longevity of this group.  

Occasional liturgist as a pastor/member of Haydenville Congregational Church UCC.

 

 

In my own voice . . . 

I've had a rich life of seven different careers: from teaching to recruiting retail executives to hospital employee employment to human resources training and development to organization development and diversity consulting and training to anti-racism non-profit management to hospice and interfaith ministry.

 

Upon moving from Boston with my husband in order to help build a co-housing community in Northampton,  Massachusetts I decided to take early retirement.  I reluctantly left behind working as co-director of Community Change, a wonderful nonprofit organization dedicated to adddressing institutional racism in addition to diversity training and team building in the non-profit and corporate world.  

 

I quickly learned that retirement wasn’t for me! I re-invented myself by pursuing an interfaith education and ordination and finding my way into hospice work.  My Boston area organizational consulting practice, The Chrysalis Consulting Group, “morphed” into The Chrysalis Way ministry.