Find Your Center, Find Your Feet

Dr. Libby Osgood is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada and a religious sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Montreal. She is an aerospace engineer who worked on two NASA satellites as a systems engineer with Orbital Sciences. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Dalhousie University and is a member of the 20...

Join Marcella for a conversation with Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown, an embodied spirit, author, speaker, heart (1995) and kidney (2005) transplant recipient, former psychology professor who considers each day to be a walk of gratitude, trust, and hope. A graduate of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, she serves as a spiritual director/companion, retreat leader and encourages the pursuit of...

Rev. Dr. Glen Stoudt shares what it means to live “a lifestyle of sharing God’s goodness." Retired from congregational ministry with the United Church of Canada, the Rev. Dr. Glen Stoudt serves as a spiritual director in his ongoing ministry in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. On this podcast episode he shares with Pam what it means to live “a lifestyle of sharing God’s goodness." Glen taught in the MDiv...

Join Pam for a guided meditation as we reflect on 2024 and write goals for the New Year, 2025. What could you use more of in your life? What could you use less of in your life? What is your word for 2025? There is a blank canvas on the road before you, follow along and write your goals and intentions as a spiritual practice.   For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Di...

This conversation with Jessica Morris is honest, raw, real and beautiful. Jessica shares both the 'good and the challenging' of being raised in a family 'influenced by the disease of alcoholism' with a pastor father. Higher Powered: One Woman's Journey of Personal Eschatology is an autobiographical book, a light for any who are hungry...particularly for anyone in recovery..and all others. Jessica...

Pam and Wisdom teacher Marcella Kraybill-Greggo discuss four conscious Spiritual Practices for Advent. One invitation this season is to "catch" yourself and see how many times you notice crossing a threshold and allow yourself to sink through the level of initial chatter of your mind and discover the rhythm of the work you are doing. This podcast offers ways we can remember or recollect ourselves...

Join Pam Robertson for a guided Advent meditation focusing on these themes each week: hope, peace, love and joy! Listen along to a Christmas story about being present followed by suggestions from author Joyce Rupp on how to cultivate more presence for yourself this holiday season. Finally a list of where to find the Christmas story in the Bible.  Resources: Opening: Matthew West that invites reade...

Join us for a conversation with Cathy AJ Hardy a spiritual director, retreat facilitator, and founder of Soul Care ®, offering courses in spiritual formation and direction. A facilitator of soul work for the past two decades, Cathy is also the author of four books: Love Breathes with Me (2018), Walk With Me (2020), and Love Breathes With Me II (2022), and Pause; A Year of Soulful Meditation (2023)...

When spiritual director Anne Sussman started to meditate every day, the trajectory of her life changed! She started to sleep through the night; was far less anxious. She started to hear that small voice in her heart that said, “quit your job, because you’re miserable,” louder than she heard the chatter that said, “what are you crazy? You can’t quit your job!” The more she meditated, the clearer it...

Welcome to our guest Dr. Cindy S. Lee who serves on the Board of Spiritual Director's International (SDI). Dr. Lee has a PhD in Practical Theology from Claremont School of Theology focused on Spiritual Formation and a DMin in Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University. In her book, Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation, Taiwanese-American Dr. Cindy Lee invites us to un...

A conversation with Father Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ. Author of six books on prayer and spirituality including the Armchair Mystic and Ignatian Discernment of the Spirits for Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Care. Father Mark is an acknowledged expert on prayer and discernment. For ten years, he served as the director for Jesuits in formation, and he is currently the pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Pari...

You are invited to experience this new season by participating in spiritual awareness practices! Please join host, Pam Robertson and Wisdom Teacher, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo!   These practices invite you to become more awake and aware of the ordinary moments of your everyday life. Join us for 4 conscious prayers: The Body Prayer, Full Prostration, Listening to Your Life, and Contemplating Your Chi...

Join host Pam Robertson for a conversation about the Enneagram with teacher, Jeanine Siler-Jones. The enneagram can be a resource for deepening personal and spiritual growth. We are all born with a particular style. Enneagram teacher Jeanine Siler Jones helps us explore the value of this tool and how it can help cultivate compassion for ourselves and others. She touches on the 9 types as an introd...

Join us for a heart rhythm meditation with Maureen DeBellis! Learn about Heart Rhythm Meditation it’s effects on overall well-being; including, an expanded sense of self! Maureen is a spiritual director, inter-spiritual companion, a teacher of Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM) and a retreat guide for the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.  She has a BA in Marriage and Family Studies from DeSales Uni...

Join us for a guided YES mediation with Lori Christine Young and host Pam Robertson. Lori is an Integrative Somatic Coach which includes her work as a Somatic Spiritual Director who is trained in and informed by Holistic Spirituality and Contemplative Spiritual Direction, Somatic Experiencing (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner™️), Plyvagal Theory (Deb Dana’s Rhythm of Regulation™️) and other traum...

Wisdom Spiritual Director, Heather Ruce joins us talk about finding our center. Heather says, what she has discovered in doing this Wisdom work is that it calls for a different level of being in the world requiring her to do what it takes to regulate the nervous system so that she's not operating reactively. Bonus: Heather leads a ten minute meditation during our conversation! Heather is a graduat...

Join us for a conversation with Rev. Dr. Sue Pizor Yoder who leads Blank Slate, an emerging spiritual community in the Lehigh Valley, PA. Sue co-authored the book "Hear Us Out: Six Questions on Belonging and Belief" where they interviewed over 200 people under 40 in search of the lessons they might teach us about belonging, adversity, legacy - and faith. Sue explains the idea of "nones" — people w...

Join hosts Pam and Marcella with author Russell Siler Jones for a conversation about his new book, Spirit in Session: Working with Your Client’s Spirituality (and Your Own) in Psychotherapy. Russell is a therapist in Asheville, NC. In this immensely practical book, Russell helps therapists, spiritual directors or anyone in the "helping" industry feel more competent and confident about having spiri...

Joyce Rupp bestselling and award-winning author and retreat leader joins Pam for a conversation about her newest book, Jesus, Guide of My Life offers reflections for the Lenten Journey. The Lenten season is framed as a spiritual journey that prepares us to celebrate Easter and new life. Joyce invites us to set aside a few minutes each day to read a verse of scripture and prayer response. Then sitt...

Join us for two Guided Meditations with host Pam Robertson and guest Jeanine Siler-Jones. Jeanine is a spiritually integrated psychotherapist and spiritual director in private practice, an Enneagram teacher, retreat leader and chair of the board of Wisdom Waypoints. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and a Certificate in Theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Jeanine is a grad...

Paul Burgmayer has been working on a comprehensive history of spiritual direction and supervision and will share some his findings with us. Paul has also been accompanying others in spiritual direction for fourteen years. A former industrial chemical researcher and now retired high school teacher, Paul has a master’s degree in Holistic Spirituality and a certificate in spiritual direction from Che...

A conversation with Dr. Susan S. Phillips, a spiritual director and sociologist, a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Theological Union, and for many years was the Executive Director of New College Berkeley where she continues to direct the spiritual formation ministries. She has written two books which consider the art of spiritual direction and the journey of spiritual formation...

Join host Pam Rotelle Robertson with co-founders of the Graduate Certificate Program in Spiritual Direction at Moravian Theological Seminary, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo and Barb Martell, as they share their journey of following God in birthing this Program. Contact us: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction Music by Robert Long robertjohnlong@gmail.com