Dates: Thursday, September 30, 2021, 7:00 - 8:00 pm ET
Available by: Join by Videoconference Only (learn more about videoconference)
Suggested Love Offering: $ 10.00
Join Rev. Susan Nason and Rev. Chris Portelli for a night exploring the prayer, poetry, and wisdom of two mystical souls. These saints shared a transcendental friendship: Therese of Avila and John of the Cross. Together they reformed religious life and laid a new spiritual path for their communities. Their friendship ran deep, and they wrote their stories down for our benefit. As spiritual beings, they guide us on a journey to the divine. As friends, they demonstrated a love that survived the ages.
Facilitators:
Rev. Susan Nason
Rev. Susan Nason is the founder of The Parent Whisperer NY. She has a thriving domestic and global Parent Counseling practice specializing in exploring conscious parenting, employing therapeutic and practical approaches to the challenges of raising children. Susan teaches concrete, compassionate and effective communication skills to parents and teachers of children of all ages. Susan is an experienced facilitator of the “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk” and “Siblings Without Rivalry” workshops. She was trained and certified by her Aunt, award-winning author, and parenting expert Adele Faber, and by co-author Elaine Mazlish. Susan has facilitated parenting workshops for a multitude of leading school, institutes, and corporations including The Ackerman Institute for the Family, All Souls Church School, Horace Mann Nursery School, The Brick Church School, First Presbyterian Church Nursery School, Barrow Street Nursery School, Rockefeller Children’s School, Ross Global Academy, Girl’s Prep, Chelsea Day, The Manny Cantor Center, Beit Rabban, The Peck Street School, Bowery Babes, and The Seleni Institute. Her practice includes teacher trainings for schools in the tri-state area. She has been a speaker for the United Federation of Teachers, the Parents’ League, Hudson River Park Mama’s, Dechert LLP, and other organizations, schools, and private groups. Susan was the Assistant to Director of The First Presbyterian Church Nursery School for 36 years; her position included working with parents as the school’s Parent Educator and working with teachers to facilitate a harmonious atmosphere in their classrooms. Susan is a contributing author of Onward and Upward: Guide for Getting Through New York Divorce & Family Law Issues. She has a Spiritual Counseling Certification and is an Ordained Interspiritual/Interfaith Minister, graduating from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in 2006. Susan officiates weddings, baby-namings, funerals, rites-of-passage ceremonies. Susan brings her love and compassion of being a proud mother and ecstatic grandmother to her work with parents, teachers, and children.
Rev. Christopher J. Portelli
Rev. Christopher J. Portelli (aka Rev. Chris) was ordained an interfaith and interspiritual minister by One Spirit Interfaith Seminary (NYC) in 2016, and he completed the Interspiritual Counseling program (ISC) there in 2018. In 2019, he served as a Dean of the First Year seminary program at One Spirit, and in 2021 he will be a Supervisor in the Interspiritual Companioning and Counseling (ISCC) program. He performs weddings, baby blessings, house blessings, funerals, and memorial services, and offers individual and group spiritual counseling. Raised Roman Catholic, he studied and followed the spiritual teachings of Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, Pope John XXIII, and Dorothy Day. Today he studies and practices Effortless Mindfulness with contemporary Buddhist scholar Loch Kelly. Rev. Chris lives with his husband, Dr. Wai Khoo, in Jersey City, NJ. He is also a supervising attorney at the non-profit New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) in Manhattan. He is founder of the Economic Justice Clinic at NYLAG. The clinic trains law students in poverty law and allows them to provide free legal services to low-income and homeless New Yorkers with attorney supervision. Rev. Chris earned his BA in Philosophy from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, his JD from New York Law School, and a Masters of Philosophy in Public and Urban Policy at The New School.
If you have questions about registering for this course, please contact One Spirit Learning Alliance by email to info@1spirit.org or call 212-931-6840.