JANET RUFFING, R - Yale Divinity School



JANET RUFFING, R.S.M.

Yale Divinity School

409 Prospect Street

New Haven, CT 06511

Office Phone: 203 432 7296

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Christian Spirituality, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. 1986

Dissertation: The Narrative Aspects of Spiritual Direction under the direction of Prof. David Stagaman, SJ

STL Jesuit School of Theology. Berkeley, CA. 1984

MAS (Applied Spirituality) University of San Francisco, 1978

CTS Institute of Spirituality and Worship. Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley, CA, 1978

B.A. Russell College, Burlingame, CA. 1968

POSITIONS:

2010- Professor of the Practice of Spirituality and Ministerial Leadership, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT.

2010 Professor Emerita of Spirituality and Spiritual Direction, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.

1986-09 Professor of Spirituality and Spiritual Direction, Graduate

School of Religion and Religious Education, Fordham University,

Bronx, NY, Tenured, September, 1992, Assoc. 1993, Prof. 2000, Retired, December 2009.

1980-86 Doctoral Studies, GTU; Faculty in the Internship in the Art of Spiritual Direction (83-87)

1983-6 Permanent Deacon Formation Faculty, Diocese of Oakland, CA

1968-80 Secondary School Teacher, Department Head, and Director of Campus Ministry at Mercy High School, Burlingame, Mercy High School, SF, and Marian High School, Imperial Beach, CA. Served in both Religion and English Departments in all three schools.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Lettres sur la souffrance: Correspondence avec soeur Marie Goby (1910- 1914), Introduction de Janet K. Ruffing (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2012),pp 238.

To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative (Paulist Press, 2011), pp206.

Elisabeth Leseur: Selected Writings. Classics in Western Spirituality (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2005), pp 335.

Spiritual Direction: Beyond the Beginnings. (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2000), pp183. (Trans. Polish, Krakow: Wydawnicto Wam, 2010) (Trans. Korean, 2017)

Uncovering Stories of Faith: Spiritual Direction and Narrative. (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989), pp. 179.

BOOKS EDITED:

Essays on Mysticism and Social Transformation. (Syracuse University Press, 2001), pp 220.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

“The Praxis of Spirituality: Experiencing God and Responding to that Relationship,” Studies in Spirituality 28 (47-63), 2018.

“A Woman’s Perspective on a Spirituality of Brotherhood” Vinayasadhana, Journal of Psycho-Spiritual Formation 8/2 (July 2017):62-74

“’They Say That We Are Wound with Mercy Round and Round:’ The Mystical Ground of Compassion,” Studies in Spirituality 26, (2016), 33-44.

“Reflections on the Spirituality of Laudato Si,” Vinayasadhana: Journal of Psycho-Spiritual Formation 7/1 (January 2016)15-29.

“Transformational Leadership and the God Leaders Serve and Represent,” Vinayasadhana: Journal of Psycho-Spiritual Formation 5/2 (July 2014): 12-23.

“God’s Compassionate Heart: the Source of Compassionate Accompaniment” Studies in Spirituality 23 (2013): 201-211.

“The God-Quest and the Gift of Religious Life to the Church,” Vinayasadhana 4/2 (July 2013):12-23.

“Spiritual Identity and Narrative: Fragmentation, Coherence, and Transformation” 12/ 1 Spiritus (2012): 63-75.

“A Puzzling Question about Post Practicum-Supervision” Presence 18/4 (December 2012):34-39.

“A Path to God through Visionary Experience,” Studies in Spirituality, 22 (2012): 275-291.

“Music as an Opening to Religious Experience” Vinayasadhana: Journal of Psycho-Spiritual Formation 1/1 (January 2010):70-85.

“’You are the Music While the Music Lasts:’ Music as an Opening to Religious Experiences’” Presence 16/3(September 2010):29-37.

“Sacred is the Call: Supervisory Accountability and Responsibility in the Formation of Spiritual Directors?’ Reflective Practice, 30 (May 2010): 110-124.

“Soul Friends: The Epistolary Relationship of Elisabeth Leseur and Soeur Marie Goby” Studies in Spirituality 19 (2009): 57-182.

“Hearing Voices: An Interpretation of Contemporary Locutionary Phenomenon” in Seeing the Seeker: Explorations in the Discipline of Spirituality. (Festschrift for Kees Waaijman) Studies in Spirituality Supplement 19 (Leuven: Peeters, 2008): 495-511.

“Spiritual Direction with Women: Reclaiming and Reinterpreting Key Themes from the Spiritual Tradition,” Presence 12/3 (September 2006): 36-46.

“An Integrated Model of Supervision in Training Spiritual Directors” Presence 9/1 (February,2003): 24-30.

“To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative” New Theology Review 16/3 (Summer 2003): 38-52.

“Review Essay: Recent Literature and Emerging Trends in Spiritual Direction” Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 3(Spring 2002): 99-107.

Exercising Power and Discerning Spirits” Review for Religious 60/5 (September-October 2001): 454-465.

“Developmental Incongruence: When Directors and Directees are at Different Levels of Psychological and Spiritual Development” Presence: an International Journal of Spiritual Direction 5/2 (Spring 1999):18-28.

“Supervision and Spiritual Development: The Conventional Post Conventional Divide" Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry 18(1997): 95-106.

"Visiting a Scene of Election" Review for Religious 56(July-Aug, 1997): 402-11 (Translated into French by Anita Charpentier and Claudette Ledet for the Bon-Pasteur de Quebec Chapter, "Reflecture d'un chapitre d'elections" 1997).

"Knitting Together the Mind and the Body, and the Spirit: The Experience of Contemporary Christian Women" Studies in Spirituality 7 (1997): 242-262.

"Supervision and Spiritual Development: The Conventional Post Conventional Divide" Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry 18 (1997): 95-106.

"Unacknowledged Conflicts: Prayer and Morality" The Way Supplement 88

(Spring 1997): 66-76.

"'To Have Been One With The Earth:' Nature in Contemporary Christian Mystical Experience" Presence 3 (January, 1997): 40-54.

"The World Transfigured: Kataphatic Experience Explored through Qualitative Research Methodology" Studies in Spirituality 5 (1995): 232-59.

"Encountering Love Mysticism: Issues in Supervision" Presence: An International Journal in Spiritual Direction 1 (January 1995): 20-33.

"Leadership a New Way Part II: The Religious Dimensions of Leadership" Review for Religious 53(July-August 1994) 486-497.(reprinted in The Church and Consecrated Life, ed. David Fleming and Elizabeth McDonough, The Best of the Review 5, 1996.

"Leadership a New Way Part I: Women, Power, and Authority," Review for Religious 53 (May-June, 1994) 326-339. (Reprinted in The Church and Consecrated Life, ed. David Fleming)

"Elizabeth Leseur: Wife and Worldly Mystic” Mystics Quarterly, 19 (March 1993): 17-25. Reprinted by Catholic Digest under the title, “The Mixed Life of Elizabeth Leseur" (August, 1993): 111-116.

"Seeing in the Dark: The Present Moment in Religious Life," Review for Religious. 51(March-April 1992): 236-248.

"Psychology as a Resource for Christian Spirituality" Horizons, 17 (Spring, 1990): 47-59.

"Spiritual Direction: an Instance of Christian Friendship or a Therapeutic

Relationship?" Studia Mystica 12 (Spring 1989): 64-73.

"Prayer in Life's Transitions,” Human Development, 6/1 (Spring, 1985.)

"Mother-Daughter Remnants in Religious Life," Human Development 3/2 (July, 1982): 46-54.

ESSAYS IN BOOKS :

“The Practice of Spiritual Direction: A Theologically Complex Process” Invited essay for Invitation to Practical Theology: Catholic Voices and Vision, ed. Claire E. Wolfteich, (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2014): 191- 214.

“The Academic Study of Spirituality: Unsettled, Evolving, and Multidisciplinary” Trans. into German “Die Akademische Spiritualitatsforschung in den USA Entwicklungen einer jungen Disziplin” in Ralph Kunz, Claudia Kohli Reichenback, Spiritualitat im Diskurs: Spiritualitatsforschung in Theologischer Perspektive (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2012): 55-72.

“Formation of Lay Ecclesial Ministers: Rooted in a Genuine Lay and Ecclesial Spirituality,” Cause for Rejoicing: The Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry, ed. Bud Horell. (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2011): 176-191.

“An Integrated Model of Supervision in the Training of Spiritual Directors” in The Soul of Supervision: Integrating Practice and Theory, ed. Margaret Benefiel and Geraldine Holton (Harrisburg: PA, Morehouse, 2010): 153-164.

“Here I Am, Standing Right Beside You: Spiritual Accompaniment and Care of Alzheimer’s Impaired Parents,” Loss, Illness and Death: A Dialogue with Theology and Psychology ed. Dr. Beverly Musgrave (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2010): 288-306.

“Fire Cast on the Earth: Spiritual Implications for Mercy in the Twenty-First Century” Fire Cast on the Earth—Kindling:” Being Mercy in the Twenty-First Century. Proceedings from the International Mercy Research Conference 9-12 November 2007, ed. Elisabeth Davis et al. Lulu Press, 2009. pp. 163-175.

“Personality Sciences as a Resource for the Study of Christian Spirituality” in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality, ed. Arthur Holder, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005): 308-324.

Introduction to Elisabeth Leseur, Journal et pensees de chaque jour (Paris: Editions Du Cerf, 2005) : (7-74) Trans. Micheline Triomphe.

“Spirituality, Sexuality, and Embodiment” in Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium (Brighton, England: Sussex Press, 2001): 63-79.

“Introduction” to Essays in Mysticism and Social Transformation (Syracuse University Press, 2001): 1-28.

“Ignatian Mysticism of Service: Ignatius of Loyola and Pedro Arrupe” in Essays in Mysticism and Social Transformation (2001):104-128.

“Flesh is more than Flesh: Sexuality and Spiritual Direction” in Still Listening: New Horizons on Spiritual Direction, ed. Norvene Vest, (Morehouse, 2000): 171-182.

"Socially Engaged Contemplation" in A Handbook of Spirituality for Ministers, Vol. 2, ed. Robert J. Wicks. (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2000): 418-441.

"Elizabeth Leseur: A Strangely Forgotten Modern Saint" in Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models, ed. Ann Astell, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. (Trans. into Korean)

“Intimacy and Mutuality with God,” Sexuality and Spirituality,” and “Embodied Family Spirituality” presented at the Conference: “The Family and Contemporary Social Reality–Pastoral Priorities and Challenges and published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Bishops Chairmen: Commission for the Family in the Countries of Asia, published by (SERFAC, Chennai, India. August, 1999): 69-79, 80-94, 122-133.

“Loosing the Cords which Bind: Forgiveness and Reconciliation,” The Proceedings of the National Conference of Vicars for Religious (1999):25-33.

"The Human Experience of Prayer: East and West" in Teach us to Pray : Proceedings of the Theology Institute of Villanova University, ed. Francis Eigo (Villanova: Villanova University Press, 1996): 1-34.

"Under the Mantle of Mercy" in Rattling These Dry Bones? Women Challenge the Church, ed. by June Steffensen Hagen (San Diego: LuraMedia, 1995): 83-94.

"Recovering a History of Partnership: American Sisters in the Nineteenth Century" in Where Can We Find Her, ed. Eloise Rosenblatt, RSM. (Mahwah: Paulist, 1991): 117-131.

COMMISSIONED ESSAYS

“Conversations as Doorways for Conversion,” Human Development Magazine, Spring, 2018 (20-29).

“Cultivating Compassion: Developing a Habit of Mercy and Recognizing its Interruptions,” Human Development Magazine, Fall, 2015. (1-18)

“God-Mother of the True Believers: Teaching Spirituality in a Non-Denominational Seminary” The Way 53/4 (October 2014):89-100.

“Leading from the Middle: Tending the Evangelical Lives of One Another as Women of Mercy,” commissioned by WMW leadership, presented Chicago, July 27, 2013, and disseminated to 700 +sisters via Mercy Intranet, July 30, 2013. (16pp)

“Opening One’s Heart to Another: The Rediscovery of Spiritual Direction” Conversations: A Forum for Authentic Transformation 5(Spring 2007): 6-13. (Translated into Chinese, Conversations, (5 Spring 2009).

“Starting Afresh from Gospel Friendship: a Spirituality of Governance” written for the WMW Governance Workgroup and disseminated to 900+ sisters via the Mercy Intranet, September, 2005. Spring 2009 disseminated to the NorthEast Community (500 members).

“Resurrection Faith in the Midst of Grief: Where is the One That I Love?” The Way Supplement 99 (Autumn 2000): 98-108.

“Liturgy and Ritual Process during the Directed Retreat” The Way Supplement 95 (Summer 1999): 50-60.

"Unacknowledged Conflicts: Prayer and Morality" The Way Supplement 88

(Spring 1997): 66-76.

"'Look at Every Path Closely and Deliberately:' What's On Offer?" The Way Supplement 84 (Fall 1995): 3-16.

"You Fill Up My Senses: God and the Senses" The Way (Spring 1995):101-110.

"An Option for Women?” The Supplement to the Way (Summer 1992): 89-100, co-authored with T. Moeser, PhD.

"Storytelling in the RCIA Process," The Way (July 1989): 219-229.

OTHER JOURNALS:

“Why We Need Nonviolence More Than Usual” Viva! Mercy. January February 2019, 14-16.

“Pope Francis, Catherine of Siena and Why Women Mystics Still Matter,” The MAST Journal for Vol. 24/1, (July 2017)25-31.

“A Window into Francis I’s Views on Religious Life” The MAST Journal 22/ 3 (April 2015).

“Opening One’s Heart to Another: the Rediscovery of Spiritual Direction”

Australian Friend, On-line Journal, 1309 (Sept. 2013): 1-7.

“A Contemporary Experience with the Rules for Almsgiving” The Way, 53/3(July 2014): 23-31.

“From Transfiguration to Transformation” Spiritual Life, 59/1 (Spring 2013): 30-41.

“‘Ineluctable this Shimmering:’ The Principle and Foundation” The Way,

51/ 3 (July 2012): 78-91.

“Resisting the Demon of Busyness” Spiritual Life 55/3 (Fall 2009): 147-159.

“Discernment Dissected” Horizon 34/4 (Summer 2009): 16-24.

“It Matters How We Tell the Story of Religious Life” Religious Formation Conference InFormation 16/4 (Oct-Nov-Dec 2008): 1-2, 4-5, 8-9.

“Fire Cast on the Earth: Spiritual Implications for Mercy in the Twenty-First Century” Listen 26 (No.1 2008): 15-22.

“A Burning Love Ignited: the Experience of Call in Religious Life,” Religious Formation Conference InFormation 15/4 (October 2007): 1-2, 6-9. Reprinted in Vinayasadhana III, 2 (July 2012): 10-24.

"Catherine McAuley and Nonviolence,’’ The Mast Journal 17/1(2007): 33-40.

“Elisabeth Leseur’s Spirituality of the Communion of Saints,” The Mast Journal 15/2 (2005): 33-40.

“Discernment and Our Vow of Obedience,” The MAST Journal 14 (2004): 20-25.

“Martha and Mary: Integrating or Disintegrating Images for Action and Contemplation” Mast Journal 12 (Summer 2002):16-23.

“Women of Reconciliation: Loosing the Cords which Bind,” RSCJ Occasional Papers, (Fall 2000, Bicentennial Edition): 13-23.

“Jesus: a Feminist Mystical Perspective” The Mast Journal 9(Summer 1999): 33-40.

"The Gifts of Celibate Friendship and Intimacy" Horizon 24/1 (Fall 1998).

"Going Up into the Gaps: Prophetic Life and Vision" Information 6/1 (Jan-Feb 1998): 1-2; 8-9.

“Catherine McAuley's Quaker Connection: What Can We Know? What Do We Imagine?” The Mast Journal 8 (Fall 1997): 36-52.

"On Resisting the Demon of Busyness" Spiritual Life 41/2 (Summer 1995):79-89. Reprinted by Pneuma, a Newsletter of Spiritual Directors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, 1995, and Horizon 22 (Number 1, 1997): 25-31.

"Celibacy and Contemplation" Information 5/3 (May-June 1997): 1-2; 10-12.

"The Passage of Mercy Life into the Third Millennium" The Mast Journal 6 (Summer 1996): 28-36.

"The Burning of the Heart for All Creation: The Challenges to Religious Life" The Mast Journal 5 (Spring 1995): 23-29.

"Physical Illness: A Mystically Transformative Element in the Life of Elizabeth Leseur" Spiritual Life 40/4 (Winter 1994): 220-229.

“Enkindling the Embers: The Challenge of Recent Research on Religious Life" The Mast Journal 4 (Spring 1994): 7-14.

"Who Do You Say That I Am?" Praying Magazine 51 (November, 1992): 4-9.

"Catherine McAuley's Spirituality of the Cross" The MAST Journal 2 (Spring 1992): 14-19.

DICTIONARY ENTRIES

Entries on “The Affirmative Way,” “Kataphatic Mysticism,” and “Spiritual Direction” for the New Westminster Dictionary of Spirituality, ed. Philip Sheldrake, (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2005): 91–92; 393-4; 243-45.

Entry on “Meditation: Christian Perspectives” commissioned by the Encyclopedia of Monasticism. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000).

Entries on "Power and Authority" and "Theological Anthropology" for The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, Michael Downey, ed. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993).

BOOK REVIEWS, INTRODUCTIONS, PREFACES, INTERVIEWS (2000-2018)

Book Endorsement of The 20-Minute Retreat: 21 Sessions with the Saints to Nourish Your Faith By David B Perrin for Novalis Press, 2019.

Review of Richard Malloy, SJ Spiritual Direction: A Beginner’s Guide for Spiritus, 2018.

Review of Ruben Habito, Be Still and Know: Zen and Bible. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2017 for Spiritus. 2018.

Review of Peter Tyler: The Pursuit of Soul: Psychoanalysis, Soul-making and the Christian Tradition.” New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016, for Spiritus, 17/2, 2017, 265-266.

Review of Joan Chittister: Her Journey from Certainty to Faith by Tom Roberts, Maryknolll, NY, 2016 for Theology Today, June 2016 issue.

Review of Tom Schwanda’s Soul Recreation: the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Puritanism (Eugene, Ore: Pickwick Press, 2012 for Spiritus. 15/1, (Spring, 2015), 134-6.

Review of Peter Tyler’s Teresa of Avila: Doctor of the Soul, (Bloomsbury 2013) for The Journal of Theology and Sexuality. 20/3 (2014), 255-257.

Review of Anthology of Spiritual Direction: Volume 1 by Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Direction for The Way, 2013.

Forward to Love’s Wild Dancing: Embraced by Untamed Love by Janice Edwards, RSM, (Sea Cliff, New York: Brookville Books, 2012), xi-xiii.

Review of Explorations in Spirituality: History, Theology, and Social Practice. (Paulist Press) by Philip F. Sheldrake, for Spiritus 11/2 (Fall 2011), 270-2.

Interview in Presence on “Cultivating Compassion” 17/1 (March 2011): 6-12.

Interview in Presence on “Gratefulness: The Heart of Spiritual Care” 16/1 (March 2010): 6-12.

Review of Reviving Christian Humanism: the New Conversation on Spirituality, Theology, and Psychology Fortress Press (2010) for Horizons.

Preface for Lucie Christine: A Mysticism of Kindness by Astrid M. O’Brien, Univ. of Scranton Press. (2010)

Review of Christian Spirituality: The Classics by Arthur Holder for Horizons. 36.2 (Fall 2009), 371.

Review of The Way of Discernment: Spiritual Practices for Decision Making for Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision of Ministry.2009.

Review of The Tradition of Catholic Prayer by the Monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey for Theological Studies 69/4(December 2008) 955.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Preparing McKendy Lecture for publication in Presence

Book on Love Mysticism

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT:

Contemporary Christian Spirituality

Discernment of Spirits in Selected Mystics

History of Christian Spirituality I and II

John of the Cross: A Guide for Difficult Times

Meditation: East and West

Loving Creation: Spirituality, Nature, and Ecological Conversion

Pastor as Person

St. Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises

Spirituality and Psychology: Rivals or Partners

Spiritual Direction: Theology and Practice

Spiritual Direction Supervision

Spirituality of Leadership

Supervised Practicum in Spiritual Direction

Theology and Practice of Spiritual Direction

Theology of the Human Person

Women Mystics

OTHER GRADUATE TEACHING:

2011 Introduction to Theology and Practice of Spiritual Direction, Chinese Mission Seminary, Hong Kong, March 10-17, 2011 (58 students)

S-2009 Lectures at The Ateneo University, Manila, “Mysticism and Social Transformation” to the Loyola School of Theology, (2 hours) and Spirituality and Psychology to counselors, formation directors and spiritual directors sponsored by Cefam (6 hours) Embodied Family Spirituality at San Carlos Seminary in Makati district, and two 6 hour workshops: To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative and Falling in Love with God: Integration and Transformation offered through Emmaus Center and CIS housed at the Ateneo.

S-2009 Graduate Workshop, “Love Mysticism and Spiritual Direction” at Aquinas Institute, St. Louis, MO, June 12-14.

S-2009 Spiritual Direction Supervision, Melbourne, Australia, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne Campus with Campion Retreat Center.

S-2005-6 Retreat’s International, July 10-15, 2005 and 9-14, 2006. Chicago. “To Tell the Sacred Tale: Tales of Mystery and Wonder in Spiritual Direction.”

S-2004 Theology and Practice of Spiritual Direction at Redemptorist Spirituality Institute, (program training Thai spiritual directors).

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS:

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL THEOLOGICAL:

Roger Williams Symposium Pullman, WA. November 3-5, 1985. "The Wholeness and Holiness of Human Selves: A Holistic Approach to Spirituality and Ministry," "The Way of Symbols on our Journey to God," "Story-telling, Imagination, and Religious Experience"

InterArea Colloquium Panelist, Graduate Theological Union, Nov.1985. "The Interface between Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Counseling,"

"Psychology as Resource for Spirituality," Spirituality Seminar at the Catholic Theological Society of America, Toronto, June 16, 1988.

"Women: Rooted in Christ,” Keynote to the Holy Cross Sisters Provincial Chapter, Western Region, June, 1987.

"Mercy Futures: An Opportunity to Re-Interpret Mercy Charism in the Light of Feminist Spirituality," Mercy Association for Scripture and Theology, Detroit, June 13, 1988.

"Power and Authority,” Sisters of Mercy Theological Reflection Process, Entire Congregation, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept.3O, 1989.

"Common Understandings and Assumptions of Christian Spiritual Direction: An Historical Perspective." Feb.1990. Workshop for Trainers of Spiritual Directors.

"Spiritual Movements: Challenge and Opportunity," Finkelstein Institute,

Jewish Theological Seminary, NY. Jan. 22, 1991.

"Feminism and Mercy Charism: Ministry and Spirituality." Dobbs Ferry, NY. For sisters in formation, May 5, 1991.

"Catherine McAuley's Spirituality of the Cross," Mercy Association in Scripture and Theology, June 1991.

"Seeing in the Dark: The Present Moment in Religious Life” Archdiocesan

Sisters Council, New York Archdiocese, Sept.19, 1991.

"The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius," November 21, 1991, Center for Christian Spirituality of the General Theological Seminary, NY.

"Elizabeth Leseur: Wife and Worldly Mystic" Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, May 7, 1992.

"Elizabeth Leseur: A Strangely Forgotten Modern Saint" the Schoenstatt Conference "Toward a Lay Spirituality for the Postmodern Era" October 23-25, 1992.

Psychological Issues in Spiritual Direction, the Cafh Society's Psyche and

Spirit Seminar, NY, Nov. 1992.

"Physical Illness and a Religiously Hostile Environment: Mystically Transformative Elements in the Life of Elizabeth Leseur” American Academy of Religion, November, 1992.

"Use of Personal Narrative in Spiritual Direction" a workshop for spiritual

directors, the Center for Spiritual Development of the Archdiocese of New York, March 12, 1992, and for The Archdiocesan Spirituality Center in New Orleans, March, 21,1992, Buffalo, NY, Feb. 1993, Upper Room, New Jersey, Feb. 28, 1995.

"Feminine Spirituality, "Winter Institute,” 1993, Center for Nonpublic Education, Fordham University.

Workshop for the US R.C. Bishops on “Recent Research on Religious Life,” New Orleans, June, 1993.

"The Mystery and the Paradox of Religious Life," Chapter of the Congregation of St. Agnes, Fond du Lac, WI. July 12, 1993.

"Enkindling the Embers: The Challenge of the Recent Research on Religious Life," Plenary Address for Leadership Conference of Women Religious National Assembly, Dallas, TX, August 17, 1993.

"Leadership a New Way: Women, Power, and Authority." Oct. 25, 1993. LCWR Area II, NY .

"If Christ be Growing in Us: The Role of Religious Leadership," Oct. 26, 1993, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Area II, NY.

"The Burning of the Heart for All Creation: The Challenges to Religious Life” for Chapter Members of Sisters of Mercy, Plainfield, N.J. Dec.4, 1993 and Hartford Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy, September 24, 1994.

"Religious Life Now and into the Twenty-First Century," Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, Jan. 1994.

"The Search for the Beloved: Christian Love Mysticism" Workshop for Trainers of Spiritual Directors, Spiritual Directors International, Atchison, KS, April, 1994.

"Panning for Gold: Traces of the Spirit in the Stream of Life" Workshop

for Spiritual Directors on theology and spiritual direction, Spiritual

Directors International, Atchison, KS, April 1994.

"Masculine and Feminine Spirituality" with Prof. John Shea, Iona Spirituality Institute, Feb.25-26, 1994, Archdiocesan Spirituality Center, New Orleans, October 29-30, 1994, Church of the Nativity, Fair Haven, New Jersey, March 10-11, 1995. Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, July 12-13, 1995.

"A Report on the Use of Qualitative Research Methods in the Study of Christian Kataphatic Mysticism" paper distributed to Spirituality Seminar, Catholic Theological Society of America, June 10, 1994.

"A Strange, Wild-Looking Place: The Challenge of New Spiritualities and Experiences of the Spirit," Keynote for “Spirit Connection,” October 16, 1994, Omaha, NE.

"'To Have Been One With The Earth:' Nature in Contemporary Christian Mystical Experience" Cora Brady Memorial Lecture, Manhattanville College, November 9, 1994.

"A Contemporary Reinterpretation of the Vows," a Conference on Illuminating Religious Life, Burlingame, California, Feb. 19-21, 1995. and New Jersey Regional Community, November 5, 1995.

"Opening to the Mystic Way: Sacred Sound and Voice in Contemporary Mystical Experience" with Dr. Kathleen Deignan, Iona Spirituality Institute, March 4, 1995 and Spiritual Director's International Pre-Conference Workshop, April 12, 1996, Hendersonville, NC.

"Being Ecclesial Women: Lamentation, Passion and Vision." Vermont Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy, Pre-Chapter Meeting, March 25, 1995.

"Contemplation, Prophecy, and the Ecclesia: The Challenges of Leadership" LCWR Region III (New Jersey and Pennsylvania), March 29, 1995.

"The Human Experience of Prayer: East and West," Villanova Institute, Villanova University, June 20, 1995.

Ignatian Spirituality Institute: "Conversation with Supervisors/Trainers", "Praying For What We Want: Sorting Out Our Desires," "Mutuality with God: Where Beloved and Loved One Wholly Flow Through Each other," "Endlessly Inventive Evasion: Resistance to Spiritual Experience," Ethical Dimensions of Spiritual Direction and Supervision," "The Use of Personal Narrative in Spiritual Direction" (Video-Taped), Portland, Oregon. August 9-12, 1995.

"Contemplation, Prophecy, and the Ecclesia: Doing the Work of Justice" Sisters in the Diocese of Phoenix, September 9, 1995.

"Healing the Heart's Imagination: Contemplation, Prophecy and Leadership" A Retreat Day for Chief Administrative Officers of the National Catholic Education Association, October 15, 1995, Mobile, Ala. and December 11, 1996 for Principals and Pastors of the Archdiocese of Boston.

"Knitting Together the Mind, the Body, and the Spirit: the Experience of Contemporary Christian Women," International Colloquium on Women Mystics, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, October 27-29, 1995.

"For God, Wonderful in Power Has Used that Strength for Me" Address to the Chapter of the Good Shepherd Sisters, January 23, 1996 and the Cenacle Sisters, December 2, 1996.

"The Passage of Mercy Life into the Third Millennium" Keynote Address for Baltimore Sisters of Mercy Regional Chapter, March 7, 1996.

"And Who Will Roll Back the Stone?" "The Empty Tomb: Why Are You Weeping?" "The Company of St. Ursula: the Gathered Community." The Ursuline Leadership Conference, May 31-June 1, 1996.

"Must One Say "Yes"...May One Say "No"... Should One Keep Silent: Responses to Teaching Authority in the Context of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis and Responsum ad Dubium with John Nelson, GSRRE, Fordham University, February 14, 1996.

Analysis of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate’s Implicit Theology (in fund-raising materials). March, 1996.

Oral History included in Poverty, Chastity and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns by Carole Garibaldi Rogers, Macmillan/ Simon and Schuster, 1996.

"Transforming Leadership for the New Millennium" with Andree Fries, Maryknoll Mission Institute, November 14-15, 1996.

Panelist critiquing Robert Orsi's Thank You Saint Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes in a joint session of the Catholic Studies and North American Religions at the AAR, New Orleans, November, 1996.

"The Company of St. Ursula: The Gathered Community" Cincinnati, January 11, and New York January 26, 1997. (Brown County Ursulines, Tildonk, Roman Union, and Cincinnati Communities.) and October 3, 1998, Youngstown, Ohio.

"A Contemplative Attitude toward Life," April 12, 1997, Sponsored by Inter-Congregational Ongoing Formation Committee, Sparkhill, NY.

"Spirituality Beyond Borders," Maryknoll Symposium, April 17, 1997.

National Canadian Association of Formation Directors, Toronto, May 8-11, 1997. "Going Up into the Gaps: Prophetic Life and Vision" "Living Contemplatively in a Chaotic World," "Spirituality and Sexuality," and Spirituality and Human Development: An Adult Model"

"Catherine McAuley's Connection to the Quakers:" A Report on Research in Quaker Archives in Dublin for Mercy Association in Scripture and Theology, June 11, 1997.

Workshop on “Women and Leadership” and “The Spirituality of Leadership” for LCWR Region IX, Racine, Wisconsin, Oct., 29, 1997.

"Participative Governance in a Feminist Perspective” Keynote for Presentations Sisters, Madison, CT. December 13, 1997.

"Spiritual Direction and Sexuality” with Donald Bisson for the Symposium for Trainers and an Advanced Workshop on Transference and Counter-transference for Spiritual Directors International Conference, April 15-19, 1998.

“A “A Feminist Mystical Perspective on Jesus,” Mercy Center's Contemplative Seminar/Retreat "Jesus for the 21st Century" June 16-21, 1998, Burlingame, Ca. and Maryknoll Sisters, Ossining, NY, Sept. 9, 1998.

“Walk With Us Merciful Love”: Keynote on the Historical Jesus, Feminist Christology, and Liberation Christology with Dr. Margaret Brennan, IHM, Sisters of Mercy, Merion, PA. July 29-30, 1998.

“Going up into the Gaps: Angela’s Prophetic Life and Vision” Youngstown, OH, Ursuline Sisters. October 3, 1998.

“Living Contemplatively in Chaotic Times” a one day workshop for Spiritual Directors, Franciscan Spirituality Center, La Crosse WI. October 16-17, 1998.

“Loosing the Cords which Bind: Forgiveness and Reconciliation,” Keynote for the National Conference of Vicars for Religious. Jamaica, NY, March 12, 1999.

“Socially Engaged Contemplation:” the Sr. Maura Smith Mercy Heritage Lecture. April 18, 1999. Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA.

“Mutuality with God” Where Beloved and Loved One Wholly Flow Through Each Other” Aquinas Institute of Theology Lecture, co-sponsored by Spiritual Directors International, St. Louis Region, April 22, 1999.

“Intimacy and Mutuality with God,” “Sexuality and Spirituality,” “Embodied Family Spirituality” for a Seminar for the Bishops Chairmen Commission for the Family in the Countries of Asia on ‘The Family and Contemporary Social Reality--Pastoral Priorities and Challenges” held in Chennai, India, August 14-19, 1999, sponsored by the Service and Research Foundation of Asia on Family and Culture.

Panelist for “Women in Catholicism: Promise and Perils” for the conference “Illuminations 2000: Dialogues on Women” sponsored by the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, University of San Francisco, March 4, 2000.

“Spirituality, Sexuality, and Embodiment.” invited paper for the Colston Symposium, “Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium.” May 18-20, 2000. Burwalls Centre, University of Bristol, UK.

“Women of Reconciliation: Loosing the Ties Which Bind,” Bicentennial Lecture Series sponsored by the Religious of the Sacred Heart, March 26, 2000 at the Lone Mountain Conference Center, San Francisco.

“Spiritual Dimensions of Power and Leaders,” “Women and Power,” and “Exercising Power and Discernment of Spirits,” Pre-Chapter Meeting of the Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic, Tucson, Arizona, September 11, 2000.

“Mutuality with God,” public lecture, sponsored by the Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, October 18, 2000.

A Week-long Course for Experienced Spiritual Directors at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA based on Uncovering Stories of Faith and Spiritual Direction: Beyond the Beginnings. May 29-June 2, 2001.

“The Search for the Beloved: Spiritual Direction and Sexuality” sponsored by Sabbath House at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, June 12-14, 2001.

“Women, Power, and Authority: Where Are We Now?” Baltimore Province of the Sisters of Notre Dame De Namur, June 16, 2001.

“Mysticism and Social Transformation,” the inaugural Brother Hunt and Brother Doyle Lecture in Spirituality at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, October 24, 2001.

“Socially Engaged Contemplation: A Workshop for Spiritual Directors” at Marywood Spirituality Center, Grand Rapids, MI, October 27, 2001 and Spiritual Director’s International Institute Day, Portland, OR April 6, 2002.

“The Search for the Beloved: Colloquium for Spiritual Directors” held March 17-19, 2002 at Weber Center in Adrian Michigan.

“We Rejoice in the Richness and Strength of Our Friendships: General Governance in a Friendship Model of Authority,” and “the Firestorm of Love: Leadership Selection and Discernment,” addresses to the General Chapter of the International Congregation, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Amiens, France, July 25-26, 2002.

“Socially Engaged Contemplation,” “Personal Calling and Life Transformations,” and “Vocation and the Art of Self-Renewal” for Inner Sabbath, Irish College of Louvain University, Leuven, Belgium, July 28-August 3, 2002.

“Walking with Women in Church and Society,” Two presentations for Ministry Directors of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Burlington, VT, October, 9-10, 2002.

“To Tell the Sacred Tale, The Holy Wisdom Lecture, Washington Theological Union February 9, 2003. This included receiving the 2003 Sophia Award.

“Resistance in Spiritual Direction,” a half-day workshop, Spiritual Director’s International, Toronto, Canada, April 25, 2003.

“Issues in Mysticism and Social Transformation,” Invited paper at College Theology Society. Milwaukee, WI, May 31, 2003.

“Visions and Voices,” Collaborative Seminar for Spiritual Directors. Nov. 1, 2003, Mariandale, NY.

A Workshop on Supervision for the Spiritual Direction Program Staff at Center for Spiritual Development, Orange, CA, March 6, 2004. “To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative” a 4 hour workshop for spiritual directors at Spiritual Directors’ International Annual Conference, Miami, Fla., April 17, 2004.

Religious Formation Conference Event in Wichita, KS, April 24-25, 2004. Three talks listed under publications. Program was repeated in Massachusetts in October, 2004.

“Ecofeminist Theology of the Human Person” Theological Education Project Video for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, North American Region, November 11, 2004. Wilton, CT.

“Elisabeth Leseur’s Spirituality of the Communion of Saints,” June 11, 2005, Catholic Theological Society of America, St. Louis, MO.

“Reclaiming and Reinterpreting Themes from the Spiritual Tradition,” Northwest Women’s Spirituality Convocation, April 22-23, 2005, Seattle, WA.

“Theology of Religious Experience” and “the History of Spiritual Direction” Center for Spiritual Development’s Spiritual Direction Program, Orange, California, Oct. 1, 2005, 2006, and 2007.

“Don’t Say There is No Water: Congregational Identity,” “Keeping Our Cups in the Fountain: Deepening Interiority and Contemplative Awareness” and “Walking on the Waters of Gratitude: Scarcity or Abundance” Chapter Addresses for the Grand Rapid Dominican Sisters, January 3-4, 2006.

Theological Anthropology (20 Hours) course given to Mercy Novices at the Novitiate House, Laredo, TX. October 21-24, 2008.

“Reclaiming Spiritual Direction by the Christian Churches” March 23, 2006, Union Theological Seminary, with Mrs. Mary Russell, GSRRE, Nov. 11, 2008.

Living Contemplatively: Mindfulness Practices from the Christian Tradition” Maryknoll Mission Institute, Ossining, NY May 21-26, 2006 and May 18-23, 2008.

“Proclaiming the New Dawn Centered in God” Keynote, MidAtlantic RSM Assembly, Parsippany, NY, July 8, 2006.

“Living in the Mercy of God: Mercy Flowing Outward to the World,” MidAtlantic Assembly, Parsippany, NY, July 8, 2006.

“Love Mysticism and Spiritual Direction:” Four Presentations. “The Relationship between Erotic and Spiritual Desire and Divine and Human Love” “The Transformation of Desire in Bernard of Clairvaux and John S. Dunne” “Gertrude of Helfta’s Feminine Approach to Love Mysticism and Devotion to the Sacred Heart” and Crossing over to Sufi Love Mysticism: Rumi and Hafiz” November 10-12, 2006, Columbiere Center, Bloomington, MI. Presented again at Marywood Dominican Center, Grand Rapids, Mi. June 29-30, 2007, CSD Ecumenical Spiritual Directors Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 13-15, 2007, (100+participants), Association of Christian Spiritual Directors Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, July 27-29, 2007 (100 participants), Mercy Center, Madison, CT, March 14 and April 4, 2009 Spiritual Directors’ International, Houston, TX April 18, 2009, Upper Room, Jan. 28, 2009 and March 13, 2010, Spiritual Directors International Conference, San Francisco, April 9, 2010, Loyola Retreat House, Manhasset, Long Island, September 2009, February 29, 2012.

“Teresa of Avila: Images of God and Self” Guest Lecture, February 15, 2007, in Advanced Mature Development: Life Span Issues. (Fordham)

“The Spirituality of the Pastoral Minister” Winter Institute Guest Lecture, “Ethics in Pastoral Ministry,” Fordham University, February 2, 2007.

“Transference and Countertransference: Insights Old and New” Spiritual Directors’ International, Vancouver, BC, April 14, 2007.

“Sexuality and Love Mysticism in Spiritual Direction,” Alumni of Australian Catholic University’s Signadou Campus, Spiritual Direction Program and other local spiritual directors, Canberra, Australia, July 18, 2007.

“Living in the Mercy of God: Our Joy and Our Bliss,” lecture for the Sisters of Mercy of Aetoroa New Zealand, four locations, July 20, 2007, Auckland, July 29, Wellington, July 31, Dunedin, August 4, Christchurch. (200 participants)

Love Mysticism and Spiritual Direction, Neumann College, Aston, PA, Alumni Event, September 29, 2007.

Leadership Institute, Litchfield, CT. sponsored by Spiritual Directors International, October 24, 2007, “Uncovering Inherent Mutuality: Supervision and Practicum Elements” with Vivienne Joyce, SC.

“What is the Church that Women Want?” Fall Institute, Fordham University October 27, 2007.

“Fire Cast on the Earth: Spiritual Implications for Mercy in the 21st Century,” Mercy International Conference of Scholars, Burlingame, CA. Nov. 9-12, 2007.

“The Firestorm of Love: Chapter and Discernment,” Good Shepherd Sisters, New York Provincial Chapter, April 24, 2008, Mercy Center, Madison, CT. ( A day of theological reflection).

“Elisabeth Leseur: The Unfolding of Mature Feminine Faith in a Secular Life,” Public Lecture, Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA. Feb. 17, 2008.

“Ordinary Life—Extraordinary Holiness: Elisabeth Leseur” Mercy Associates Retreat Feb. 16-17, 2008, Burlingame, CA.

“Pedro Arrupe, S.J.: Prophetic Refounder of the Society of Jesus” Invited Lecture at Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley, February 19, 2008.

“Discernment Models for Mercy Incorporation Ministers,” (two presentations and processes) March 3, 2008.

“Living Contemplatively in Chaotic Times: Spiritual Guidance and Socially Engaged Contemplation” and “Impasse, Dark Night, and Depression” Tatamagouche Centre, Nova Scotia, July 25-27, 2008.

“Prayer” (3 hours) for Spiritual Direction Program, Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA, Feb. 7, 2009.

“Ineluctable this Shimmering:” The Principle and Foundation, keynote address for the Jesuit Collaborative Conference, June 21, 2009. Fordham University.

“Course on Supervision” sponsored by Campion Retreat Center, Living Well, Heart of Life, and Living Waters, 40 hours training supervisors for spiritual directors with Sr. Kathryn King, Melbourne, Australia, July 27-31, 2009, and “To Tell the Sacred Tale: Narrative and Spiritual Direction, August 2, (200 participants).

“Genuinely Lay and Ecclesial Spirituality for Lay Ministry” Co-Workers in the Vineyard Conference, Fordham University, September 25, 2009.

“Accompanying Directees in Prayer,” (6 hours) Mercy Center, Burlingame, October 2, 2009.

“Teresa of Avila and Mansions 5 and 6 of the Interior Castle” guest speaker for Prof. Christophe Chalemet at Fordham University, Feb. 22, 2010.

The Kay Butler Gill Lecture in Spirituality, “Love Mysticism: Relic or Contemporary Reality?” General Seminary, NY, March 9, 2010.

To Tell the Sacred Tale” Workshop for Spiritual Directors, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, March 20, 2010, March 24,2012 Mercy Center, Madison, CT and Spiritual Directors International

Annual Conference, Danvers, MA, April 21, 2012. Dominican Spiritual Direction Program In-service, March 17, 2015, Farmington Hills, MI, Upper Room, Neptune, NJ, Feb. 19, 2016.

“Cultivating Compassion: A Point of Radical Convergence among the World’s Religions,” “God’s Compassionate Heart: The Source of Compassionate Accompaniment,” “‘They Say that We are Wound with Mercy Round and Round:’ The Mystical Ground of Compassion” Plenary Lectures at Spiritual Directors International Conference on Cultivating Compassion, Atlanta, GA, April 29, 2011-May 1, 2011.

Invited Plenary Address, A Conference on “Current Issues in the Study of Christian Spirituality.” “The Academic Study of Spirituality: unsettled, Evolving, and Multidisciplinary” and panelist, “Spiritual Formation in US Seminaries” sponsored by the Institute for Practical Theology at the University of Zurich, May 26-28, 2011. (Trans. into German)

Inaugural William Johnston Lecture, Sponsored by the Irish Jesuits, “The Path To God Today: Nurturing Symbol and Imagination” All Hallows College, Dublin. October 11, 2011.

Society for Study of Christian Spirituality Presidential Address “Spiritual Identity and Narrative: Fragmentation, Coherence, and Transformation,” November 19, 2011, San Francisco.

Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Leadership Gathering, January 27-29, 2012. “Contemplation, Transformation and Prophetic Leadership,” “Transformational Leadership and the God Leaders Serve and Represent,” “The Wisdom of the Wilderness: the Solace of Fierce Landscapes and Ravished by Beauty,” “Further Reflections on Religious Leadership in Men’s Communities: Humility, Collaboration, Mentoring, and Personal Support.” Homily: “And They Were Astonished.”

“Participating in Divine Compassion” Professional Day for Spiritual Directors at the Upper Room in Neptune, NJ, February 1, 2012. “God’s Compassionate Heart: The Source of Compassionate Accompaniment,” “‘They Say that We are Wound with Mercy Round and Round:’ The Mystical Ground of Compassion.” And March 12, 2014, at Franciscan Spirituality Center, Aston, PA, March 18, 2015, The Aquinas Lecture,

A Spirituality of Catholic Secondary School Leadership for the Principals’ Association of Victorian Catholic Secondary Schools, May 23-24, 2012. Three Keynotes: “A Spirituality of Catholic Secondary School Leadership,” “Deepening our Discipleship of Jesus,” “Touched by the Holy: Contemplation, Gratitude, and Compassion.”

“Visions and Voices: Mysticism in Spiritual Direction and Supervision.” Campion Centre of Ignatian Spirituality, May 26-27, 2012, Melbourne, Australia.

Maryknoll Mission Institute: Women Mystics, Ossining, New York, June 3- 8, 2012 and June 1-6, 2014.

Panelist for New Horizons: The Next Century of Women’s Study of Christian Spirituality, (Prof. Bernard McGinn’s “The Violent are Taking the Kingdom of Heaven by Storm: One Hundred Years of Women’s Scholarship in the Study of Spirituality”) and “Response” to Susan Abraham, “Purifying Memory and Dispossessing the Self: Spiritual Strategies in the Classroom,” October 25-6, 2012. The Center for Spirituality at St. Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana.

“Inflamed with Contemplative Love:” Guidance from Catherine of Siena” Dominican Center, Grand Rapids, MI, March 14, 2013.

St. Mary’s College, South Bend, “Impelled by the Love of God: Contemplative Prayer at the Heart of Our Life and Leadership.” March 6, 2014, Lecture Series in honor of the 50th anniversary of Sr. Madeleva Wolff’s death.

Xavier University, Chicago, “Women and Faith: Why Women Mystics Still Matter,” and two undergraduate spirituality classes with David Neff, YDS, 1982, March 19, 2014 and the lecture repeated June 9, 2014, Grand Rapids, Michigan for women religious in the diocese, sponsored by Grand Rapids Dominican Women.

“Apostolic Joy: Gratitude, Compassion and Hope” for RC clergy of Grand Rapids, MI, sponsored by Grand Rapids Dominican Women, June June, 10, 2014.

Presentation on “Perfectae Caritatis and ‘Wake Up the World,’” Mercy Association of Scripture and Theology, annual meeting, June 15, 2014.

“Our Passion for God and the Song of Songs Tradition” Consecrated Life Workshop, St. Mary’s, South Bend, June 19, 2015.

“What You Fall in Love with Will Make All the Difference” invited lecture, Jesuit Centre, Guelph, Ontario, April 26, 2015.

Workshop on Supervision of Spiritual Directors, Jesuit Centre, Guelph, Ontario, April 27-29, 2015.

“Connecting with One Another in the Sacred: Emerging and Emergent Glimpses into Unspeakable Mystery” and “Weaving the Strands of Belonging Immersed in the Life-Giving Waters of Membership for Sisters of St. Agnes Gathering,” Fond du Lac, WI, June 24-25, 2015.

Curtiss Lecture, “Love Mysticism: Relic or Contemporary Reality?” St. Mary’s University, Omaha, Sept, 16-17, 2015. Public Lecture and three classroom visits.

“Elisabeth Leseur and Soeur Goby’s Spiritual Friendship,” O’ Callaghan Lecture, Fairfield University, Oct. 7, 2015.

“Catherine McAuley: A Heart Turned Toward the World in Mercy and Compassion” University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT, Nov. 11, 2015.

The Aquinas Lecture, Albertus Magnus University, January 27, 2016, “Compassion: A Point of Radical Convergence among the World’s Religions.”

“Pastoral, Ethical, Ecclesial and Evangelical Considerations Influencing our Employment Decisions Related to LBGT(QIA)” RSM Institute Leadership Conference, March 12, 2016, Detroit, MI.

“The Praxis of Spirituality: Experiencing God and Responding to that Relationship,” Invited Paper for “Transforming Spirituality: Celebrating 25 Years of Studies in Spirituality,” sponsored by the Titus Brandsma Institute in Soeterbeeck Conference Centre, Ravenstein (Netherlands) May 6-7, 2016. To be translated into Italian.

“Enfleshing Mercy in Our Lives: A Circle of Giving and Receiving,”

(2 talks) Sisters of St. Joseph, Albany, NY. December 3, 2016.

“Cultivating Compassion:” A Public Lecture and day-long Workshop for Spiritual Directors, Ministers, Mental Health Workers at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, March10-11, 2017.

“Nature Poetry as an Opening to the Mystical” “Any Angled Light:” ISM Poetry Conference, May 16-18, 2017

Maryknoll Mission Institute, “Poetry and Nature as Openings to the Mystical,” June 4-9, 2017, Ossining, NY.

The McKendy Lecture, “Ancestry, Place(s), and Narrative in Spiritual Direction” University of St. John, Fredericton, N. B. Canada, October 19-20, 2017, sponsored by The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative.

Keynote Address for Mercy Education System of the Americas, “Reflections on Spirituality for Mercy Educators for our Times” King of Prussia, PA, Oct. 13, 2018, Excerpt “Why We Need Nonviolence and Empathy more than Ever” in Viva Mercy, January/February, 2019, 14-16

PASTORAL:

Leadership Conference of Women Religious Pre-Retirement Retreats, 1985-86. "Spirituality for the Mature Years"

Church '87 "Lent and Holy Week: Penitential Piety or Public Witness," Panelist, CTN Broadcast

"Principles of Benedictine Spirituality for Ordinary Life" Benedictine

Experience, Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York, May 27, 1987.

"Invitations to Spiritual Growth in Mid-Life," Religious Education Institute, Patterson, New Jersey, Oct. 3, 1987.

"Violence against Women in Church and Society" St. Mary's Parish, Colts Neck, NJ, January 8, 1989.

"Spiritual Growth in Mid-Life," Week-end Retreat, Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY. October 2O-22, 1989.

"Developments in Women's Spirituality" St. Rose of Lima Parish, Massapequa, LI. Nov. 9, 1989.

"Women and the Church," Panelist on the Eleventh Hour, WNET, May 9, 1990.

Invitations to Spiritual Growth in Mid-Life, Retreats for Sisters of Mercy in Guam, 2 week-long sessions, Summer 1990.

"Prayer in the Context of the God\Christ Mystery" and "Jesus and Christian Prayer," "Transformation and Christian Prayer," for Sisters of Mercy in Formation and others, California, Jan. 4-5, 1992.

"My Story and the Christian Story" Notre Dame Seminary and Spirituality Center, March 20, 1992, New Orleans.

"As if Refined by Fire: Prayer during Difficult Times" Keynote: St. Francis

Xavier Parish, Lay Spirituality Convocation, September 18, 1992.

"Feminine Images of God and Inclusive Language." Belmont, North Carolina, October 16, 1993. Sisters of Mercy and local diocesan participants. Repeated for Metropolitan Association of Contemplative Communities, Esopus, NY, Feb. 1994.

"Panelist on the Charlie Rose Show,” WNET, Oct. 5, 1995.

"Panelist on CNBC "America On-Line", Oct. 6, 1995"

Press Reflections on Vita Consecrata, March 1996 for American News Service

"Women's Spirituality: Continuities and Discontinuities" Mt. St. Alphonsus Retreat Center, May 23, 1996.

"The Self-In-Relation: Living Celibacy and Experiencing Contemplation," with Profs. Beverly Musgrave and John Shea. June 16-21, 1996, Marianella Spirituality Center, Dublin, Ireland.

"Mercy Charism and the Vows" with Celeste Marie Nuttman, Mercy International Centre, Dublin, July 5-7, 1996 and September 10-11 for Mercy Conference of New Membership Personnel, New Orleans.

"Being Ecclesial People: Lamentation, Passion, Vision" October 26, 1996, sponsored by the Vicars for Religious, Rockville Center Diocese and as a retreat for the renewal program at St. Stephen's Priory, Dover, MA, October 10-12,1997.

Television interview with Rabbi Harold Kushner on "Up to the Minute" CBS December 4, 1996, “How to Talk with Children about God."

Women's Spirituality: Continuities and Discontinuities through the Mary Magdalene Stories" Mount St. Alphonsus, April 4, 1997.

"Feminism and Mercy Charism" for Mercy Collaborative Novitiate, May 20, 1997, and September 27, 1997. St. Louis, Mo.

"Compassionate Women," Reflections on Mercy charism for national final vow retreat, Watch Hill, Rhode Island, June 12-13, 1997.

"The Paradox of Intimacy: Personal Relating and Contemplative Prayer" with Beverly Musgrave for St. Francis Xavier Lay Spirituality Program. NY. January 23 and 30, 1998.

Spiritual Director's Workshops for Wernersville Retreat House Staff (March 1998) and the Community of St. John the Evangelist (Episcopal) Cambridge, MA May 1998)

“Vision and Voices” a workshop for spiritual directors based on qualitative research related to imaginative prayer. March 20, 1998. Jesuit Renewal Center, Wernersville, PA.

“Prophecy and Contemplation,” Atlantic Formation Conference (a workshop for religious in the incorporation process and their directors.) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Feb. 26-28, 1999.

“Compassionate Women: Catherine McAuley and Mercy Charism: a six day retreat at Mercy Centre International, July 1999 (with Ginger Andrews, RSM).

“Flesh is More than Flesh: Sexuality in Spiritual Direction” a workshop for the Collaborative Seminar, Mariandale Center, Ossining, NY, November 6, 1999.

A Workshop on Forgiveness and Reconciliation for the St. Louis Inter-Community Novitiate, November 17, 1999.

“Emerging Themes in Women’s Spirituality,” “The Emergence of Mother God and the Feminine Self at Prayer,” “Reclaiming and Re-interpreting Themes from the Spiritual Tradition: Silence, Enclosure, Self-Negation, and Bodily Denial.” April, 2000.

“Embodied Spirituality: God in the Senses,” and “Wisdom from the Women’s Mystical Tradition: Creativity in Prayer and Ministry” in the workshop, “Self in Relation: A Woman’s Psychological and Spiritual Journey” given in Dublin at the Marianella, May 31-June 5, 2000, as part of a workshop with Dr. Beverly Musgrave.

“Healing Practices for the Healer” with Robert Keck, SJ, for Partners in Healing Conference, Fordham University, September 23, 2000.

“Emerging Issues in Women’s Spirituality” presented at Mariandale Retreat Center, Ossining, NY, October 14, 2000 in the program “Women’s Psychological and Spiritual Journey” with Dr. Beverly Musgrave.

“Praying from the Heart,” a workshop offered at the New York State Convocation for Parish Catechetical Leadership, Nov. 4, 2000.

A Retreat for the Guild for Spiritual Guidance, December 1-2, 2000.

“Celibacy and Sexuality,” a workshop for the intercommunity novitiate at Ossining, NY. With Rev. Tony Ciarmonte, February 20-21, 2001.

A day-long Workshop on Sexuality and Spirituality, Archdiocesan Spirituality Center, Bloomfield, CT. March 20, (about 100 directors)

Socially Engaged Contemplation Workshop for Spiritual Director’s International, Portland, Oregon, April 5, 2002.

Spiritual Direction: Beginnings & Beyond: A Conference for the Redemptorist Community and other English-speaking Religious Personnel, Pattaya, Thailand, June 10-13 (about 100). Topics included: Socially Engaged Contemplation, Trends in Spiritual Direction, Sexuality and Spirituality, Desire, and Mutuality with God.

“Religious Life and Discernment of Spirits” a conference sponsored by the Major Superiors of Religious Women held at Ban Phuwan, Sampran, Thailand. Topics included: four sessions on discernment of spirits, feminism and religious life, and new trends in religious life. June17-20, 2002. (120 in attendance, women religious, religious brothers, formators, educators, etc)

“Feminism and Mercy Charism” Mercy Novitiate, Laredo, Texas, May 23, 2003.

“Voices and Visions” a collaborative seminar for spiritual directors at Mariandale in Ossining, NY, November 1, 2003.

“Women and the Spiritual Exercises” Ignatian Spirituality Group, November 3, 2003. (Fordham University)

A Workshop on Supervision for the staff at Center for Spiritual Development, Orange, California, March 2004.

Retreat Team with Mary Patricia Garvin and Judy Fortune for RSM Journey to Wholeness Workshop, Skeneatelas, NY Aug 13-20, 2004, “Comfort Comes: Endings and Loss in Personal and Communal Transition”, and “Our Life is in your Hands: Saying Good Bye, Grieving, and Letting Go.”

“Keeping our Vessel in the Fountain: Caring for Ourselves,” Northeast Jesuit Campus Ministry Conference at Spellman Retreat Center, Nov. 4, 2004.

“Mercy and Feminism” Mercy Novitiate, Laredo, TX, Nov. 20, 2004

Introduction to Spiritual Direction, Oct.13 and 27, 2005, and “An Introduction to Spiritual Direction Programs” Sept. 25, 2008, for Jesuit Scholastics, Ciszek Hall Bronx, NY.

Discernment Facilitation for New Membership Personnel, MidAtlantic Community, Convent Station, NJ, Feb. 10-12, 2006.

Homilist for Novena of Grace, “Prayer in the Midst of an Active and Anxious Life” Fordham University Church, March 26, 2006.

Homilist for Final Vow Ceremony, Sisters of Mercy, Brooklyn. May 20, 2006.

Homilist “Joys and Sorrows Mingled” for Burlingame, RSM Jubilee Liturgy, August 13, 2006.

Journey to Wholeness Workshop for Sisters of Mercy, Sea Isle, NJ June 8-15, 2007, with Aline Paris, “Comfort Comes: Endings and Loss in Personal and Communal Transition”, and “Our Life is in your Hands: Saying Good Bye, Grieving, and Letting Go” and “Welcome to the Neutral Zone.”

“Centered in God in Life and in Ministry,” Day-long presentation on prayer for Religious Formation Conference Final Vow Workshop, June 23, 2007.

Homilist, “Our Heart’s Treasure” for Burlingame, RSM Jubilee Liturgy, August 12, 2007.

Homilist for Closing Liturgy of WestMidWest Assembly, March, 2008.

Facilitation of MidAtlantic Incorporation Team, Hartsdale, NY, June 10, 2008.

Panel on “Trends in Training Spiritual Directors,” MAST, Burlingame, CA June 13, 2008.

“The Way of Discernment” plenary presentation for Amityville Dominicans, August 9, 2008.

“The Search for the Beloved: Love Mysticism and Spiritual Direction” a workshop for spiritual directors, Innisfada Retreat House, Manhasset, NY, September 30, 2008, Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Montreal, November 14-15, 2008, and the Redemptoristine Nuns, Esopus, NY, November 17-18.

“The Rediscovery of Spiritual Direction: Is it for You?” a presentation on Spiritual Direction at Union Theological Seminary, with Mary C. Russell, November 11, 2008.

Seminar for Religious at Jesuit Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, June 7-8, 2010.

Workshop on Spiritual Direction and Supervision—70 participants, Sogang University, June 10-12, 2010, Seoul Korea. (Topics: Supervision, Transference and Counter-transference, Facilitating Prayer” and “Contemplative Supervision.”

“Ineluctable this Shimmering: An Ecofeminist Principle and Foundation” presented to the staff at Xavier Retreat House, Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, followed by case conference supervision, June 20, 2010.

“Falling in Love with God: Deepening our Relationship with God” Sisters Association of Macau, June 26, 2010.

Good Friday Homilist, St. Thomas More, 2011.

Individual Retreat Direction, St. Mary’s by the Sea, Cape May Point, NJ, August, 2010, July 2011.

“The Spirituality of Discernment:” a Retreat Day for seminarians at Union Theological, NYC, Feb. 10, 2011 and Yale Divinity School, Feb. 18, 2012.

Individual Retreat Direction for Jesuit Volunteer Corps retreat, Morristown, N.J., Mary 6-8, 2011.

DVD recording by Virginia Blass “Is That You, God? Ignatian Discernment for Our Day.” A discernment resource for young adults, Now You Know Media (DVD/ CD), May 22, 2011.

Mercy Day Celebration Homilist, Hartford, CT, Sept. 25, 2011.

“From Transfiguration to Transformation” Caritas Christi Center, March 6, 2012.

“All of Us Are Being Transformed: a Contemplative Look at the Leadings of Institute Chapter” REST Retreat, Detroit, MI, March 8-11, 2012, for Sisters and Associates of the WMW Community.

Co-ed Wilderness Retreat with Stephen Blackmer for Divinity School Students, Incarnation Center, CT April 13-15, 2012, April 11-13, 2014, April 17-19, 2015, April 9-11, 2017.

Homilist, Feast of Thomas More and John Fisher, Westmidwest Gathering, June 22, 2012.

Women Mystics Guided Retreat, Cape May Point, NJ, July 22-31, 2012.

Directed Retreat at Mercy Center, Madison, August, 11-18, 2012.

The Mary Field and Vincent De P Goubeau Lecture on Women’s Contribution to Church and Society: “Women Religious Making Positive Change in the World” with Marlene Weisenbeck and Simone Campbell at Saint Thomas More Chapel at Yale University, Sunday February 24, 2013.

Interview on Benedict XVI’s legacy, WRNN-TV, February 27, 2013.

“Think Mercy” presentation April 28, 2013 to Parents of Religious Education Students and other Parishioners, St. Francis Xavier Parish, New York.

The World Transfigured: a Workshop for Spiritual Directors, Mercy Center, Madison, June 10-14, 2013. (four and a half days)

Drinking from the Wellsprings of Mercy: “Touched by the Holy: Contemplation, Gratitude, and Compassion”—Spirituality Program (one week 13 presentation segments and two homilies) at Mercy International Centre, Dublin, Ireland, June 25-29, 2013. (Filmed and available on Mercy International Association website)

Interviewed on the Colin McEnroe Show, WNPR, CT Public Radio, “Fasting” with three others, July 23, 2013.

“Leading from the Middle: Tending the Evangelical Lives of One Another

as Women of Mercy,” Presentation for Personal Contact Meeting, July 27, 2013, Chicago at request of WMW mercy leadership

“Touched by the Holy: Contemplation, Gratitude and Compassion” Faculty and Staff Retreat of Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. October 25-27, 2013.

“From Transfiguration to Transformation” St. James Episcopal Church, W. Farmington, CT, March 3, 2014.

Interviewed on the Colin McEnroe Show, WNPR, CT Public Radio, “Voice Hearers” Spring, 2014.

“To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative,” Xien Retreat House, Lincheng, China, July 1-2, 2014.

“Discernment and Leadership,” Franciscan Formation Center, Longyuan, Shaanxi, China, July 7-8, 2014.

“The God Lay Ministers Serve and Represent” Spiritual Enrichment Day for Lay Ministers at St. Ignatius Parish, Park Avenue, New York, October 25, 2014.

From Transfiguration to Transformation and Looking unto Jesus” Lenten Quiet Day, St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 2015.

Ignatian Discernment Presentation for St. Hildan’s Volunteers at Christ Church, New Haven, CT Dec. 5, 2014, Dec. 4, 2015.

“Francis I’s Views of Religious Life” St. Thomas More, Jan.18, 2015 and

Sisters of Mercy, Farmington Hills, MI, March 16, 2015.

“Prayer and Liturgy,” Esteem Program, STM, March 22, 2015.

“Take from My Heart All Painful Anxiety: Catherine McAuley and Courage” Mercy International Association, April 2015 reflection and prayer services on consecrated life. (2015)

Guided Meditations (two) and Poetry as Opening to the Mystical, ISM Love Bade Me Welcome: Bringing Poetry into the Churches. May 12-14, 2015.

“Opening Doors of Mercy” at St. Thomas More Chapel, Dec. 6, 2015.

“Transference, Countertransference, and Supervision: Insights Old and New,” Spiritual Directors Initiative, Sisters of St. Joseph, Brighton, MA, April 11, 2016.

Retreat Facilitator for Roman Catholic Fellowship at Mercy Center, Madison, CT. April 16, 2016.

Women Mystics Retreat, Sisters of Mercy, Chicago, June 1-5, 2016.

An Advent Quiet Day at House of the Redeemer (Church of the Heavenly Rest) in Manhattan, December 10, 2016. “Mother of Mercy, Mother of the Dispossessed, and Truly our Sister in Faith.”

“Celebrating Our Epiphanies,” a Retreat for Sisters of Mercy, CT, at Our Lady of Calvary Retreat House, January 7, 2017.

Homilist, Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY, January 25, 2017, Golden Jubilee Eucharist for one of the monks.

“Reflections on the Spirituality of Laudato Si!” Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish/St Joan of Arc, Hamden, Sept. 25, 2017.

“To Tell the Sacred Tale” workshop for spiritual directors and trainees at St. Francis Xavier Church, NYC, Nov. 11, 2017.

Guest Interview for Greg Copley’s Class, “Interfaith learning through an Exploration of Life Cycle Rituals” February 5, 2018.

Chaperone for Alternative Spring Break Trip to Taize with STM students. Gave the Silent Retreat to STM Women.

“A Radiant Indigo Moment:” Poetry as Opening to Religious Experience and as a Resource for Preaching,” Clergy Institute at San Alfonso Clergy Conference July, 10-11, 2018.

“Poetry as an Opening to Prayer, St. John XXIII parish in Milford, June 4, 2018.”

Panelist for St. Thomas More, Anniversary Celebration, October 7, 2018.

STM and RCF Grad Student Retreat at Mercy by the Sea, October 27, 2018.

“Reflections on Spirituality for Mercy Educators for Our Times” King of Prussia, PA, Sponsored by Mercy Education System of the Americas, Oct. 13, 2018.

Panelist for “Can Laity Save the Church” Sacred Heart University, March 23, Fairfield, CT.

“Why Women Mystics Still Matter,” St. Luke’s Parish, Westport, April 5, 2019.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, (1987-- ;

Co-Moderator of the CTSA Spirituality Seminar (1987--199O)

Member of the American Academy of Religion (1986--)

Member of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (1992- )

Member of the First Board of Directors, and Vice President, President,

and Past President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (2009-2011)

Member of Person, Culture and Religion Group of AAR

Member of Women in Theology, a New York based professional peer

Group (1989-1998)

Member of Mercy Association in Scripture and Theology, (1987- )

Treasurer (1987--1996)

Moderator of the MAST Spirituality Task Force (1989-9O, 91-93)

Founding Board of Directors for Spiritual Directors International

and Coordinator of Local Regions, (1990-93) Member. (1990- )

Member of Pax Christi, 1991-

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL SERVICE:

Marquand Chapel Committee (2015-19)

Worship Committee (2013-14)

Moderator of Roman Catholic Fellowship (2012-2018)

Spiritual Formation and Practice of the Faith Standing Committee (Chair 2010-2011, Member 2011-2012. Chair 2010-2012, Member 2015-19)

Student Life Task Force (ATS, Long Range Planning)

Disciplinary Committee (2010-2011, 2012-2013)

Sponsored Exchange Research Scholars: Dr. A Nywe and Dr. Anthony Pogelrec, SS (2012-2013) Dr. Anrong Liu (2003-2014)

OTHER SERVICE

2018 Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Board Summit, facilitator and participant at AAR.

2018 Triennial Research Leave, Spring

2017 Election Committee for Sisters of MercyWMW, Delegate to WMW Assembly, April, 2018, and nominee for leadership team.

2017 Ms. Evaluation for Studies in Spirituality.

2016 Ms. Evaluation for Theological Studies.

2016 Promotion Review for faculty member to full professor at Boston University’s School of Theology.

2016 Elected a Delegate to RSM Institute Chapter ( June 2017).

2015 Ms. Evaluation for Horizons, “Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: Theology & Mental Illness”

2015 External Dissertation Referee, Sydney School of Theology.

2015 Triennial Research Leave, Spring

2014-19 Board of Trustees, University of St. Joseph. Hartford, CT.

2014 Consultation for Mt. Manresa’s (Detroit) curriculum for their internship in listening ministry

2014 Referee for Journal for Religion and Health, January.

2013 Review of the Winter Issue of Presence.

2013 External Referee for review for a faculty member at All Hallows College (Dublin City University)

2013 Delegate to RSM WestMidWest Chapter, April 3-6.

2012 Triennial Research Leave, Spring

2011 Application Referee for the Executive Board of the Austrian Science Fund: “Spiritual Competence: Analysis of a Key Term in the Training for Ministry.” (May 30, 2011).

2010-11 Delegate to RSM Institute Chapter

2009 Fordham Faculty Fellowship, Spring

2008 Archival Research Grant. Summer

2008 Delegate to RSM WestMidWest Chapter, March 24-29.

2007 Participant and Presenter at RSM WestMidWest Gathering, Chicago, July 20-23.

2005– Editorial Board for Presence.

05-08 Governance Work Group, West-Midwest Community

2006 Summer Gathering Consultation of RSM’s by Governance Work Group, Chicago, July 19-23, 2006.

2005 External Referee for course prospectus at Australian Catholic University, Spring

04-05 Delegate to RSM Institute Chapter from Burlingame Regional Community

2004 Faculty Fellowship, Spring

2003 Archival Research Grant

2002 External Referee for faculty promotion at Australian Catholic University, Fall

Comprehensive Examination Evaluator for Monica Maher at Union Theological, October.

2000 External Review for Master of Arts (Theological Studies: Specializations in Spirituality and Pastoral Ministry) at Australian Catholic University, Signadou Campus, Dickson, ACT, October.

1997 Comprehensive Committee for Joy Bostic, Union Theological Seminary, May.

98-99 Co-Minister in Sisters of Mercy Collaborative Novitiate, St. Louis, Mo.

98-99 Faculty Fellowship

97-99 Membership Committee of Catholic Theological Society of America

96-98 Theological Reflection Initiative Task Force, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

96-98 Governing Board of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality

94 Faculty Fellowship, Spring

93- Associate Editor for The Way

93-98 Editorial Board of MAST Journal

93-2000Editorial Board for The Christian Spirituality Bulletin (SSCS)

2001- 11 Advisory Board for Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality

92-98 Steering Committee for Mysticism Group, American Academy of Religion; Chair 1993-98.

91-92 Guest Editor for spirituality issues of MAST Journal(Spring and Fall, 1992)

S-91 Summer Faculty Fellowship

1984- Supervision of Spiritual Directors

1978- Spiritual Director, both on-going direction and retreats

Consultations with various leadership teams: Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, MI, 2013, Baltimore Mercy Team, 1998, Maryknoll Sisters, 1993, 1994 and 1996 Ursuline Governance Group, October, 1994, 1992. New York Sisters of Charity, 1992.

Consultations for Spiritual Direction Programs: Perkins School of Theology, Texas, Pittsburg Theological School, Loyola University of Chicago, Yale Divinity School, Seattle University, Louisvalej Spirituality Center, St. Bernard’s Institute, Albany

Manuscript Evaluations for Liturgical Press, Paulist Press, Orbis Press, Ave Maria Press, Blackwell Press.

Inclusion in Who’s Who of American Women 1993; 1995; 1998; 2000-2002;2005-5; 2006-2007; Who’s Who in America,2000,2002,2003, 2012, 2014, 2015, Who's Who in the World, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2007, Who's Who in American Education, 1995; 2004-5, 2007-2008.

Governance Committee, Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame Regional Community, 1991-6.

Steering Committee, Sisters of Mercy of Burlingame, Regional Assembly 1992-94.

Exploratory Committee, then Board of Directors for Spiritual Directors

International, Coordinator of Regions 1988-93.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Fordham University)

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees for: Sr. Donald Corcoran, Maria Jaoudi, Joseph Kalathunkal, Karin Schwatlo and Thomas Myadil (Theol. Dept) Lorraine Amendolara and Catherine Walsh (School of Ed--Church Leadership), Joanne Rapp (SFTS) Dolores Hall (Graduate Theological Foundation, D.Min. Project) Maria Calisi (Theology Dept), Joseph Burke, SJ and Michele Carol (School of Ed, Counseling) 2007, Annemarie Paulin-Campbell (School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA) 2008.

Assistant Chair, GSRRE 1995-98.

Sesquicentennial Conference Core Committee, "The Fires of Desire: Libidinal Theory and the Spiritual Quest." 1991.

Spirituality and Spiritual Direction Program Director in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, 1986-2009.

ADDITIONAL MINISTERIAL TRAINING:

2016-17 Diversity and Inclusion in the Classrooms and Contexts of Yale’s Divinity School, Center for Teaching and Learning (4 sessions)

Workshop on “trigger” warnings, December.

2015 (25 hours of Anti-Racism Training, focused on systemic racism, sponsored by Sisters of Mercy, June)

89- Peer-Group Supervision in Spiritual Direction

88-08 Individual Supervision with Clinical Psychologist

82-96 Peer-Group Supervision in Spiritual Direction for practicum graduates.

8O-82 Practicum in Spiritual Direction, Supervised by Mary Ann Donovan, S.C., JSTB.

78 Practicum in Spiritual Direction, Supervised by Carlos Sevilla, S.J., USF.

78 C.P.E. St. Mary's Hospital, S.F.

78 Psychosynthesis Training

75 Counseling Practicum Supervised by Ethel Dignan, PhD

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