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The Staff of Easton Mountain
consists of an interfaith and multi-disciplinary team whose
mission is assist our visitors and guests on their path of
spiritual discovery. The team includes:
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 John
Stasio is the founder of Easton Mountain Retreat.
He has worked as a bodywork therapist, workshop and retreat
facilitator and teacher. He has worked for over fifteen
years assisting people in realizing their dreams and connecting
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 John
Anderson is a spiritual counselor, educator and
healer whose work has focused on social justice, especially
as it relates to the healing and wholeness of the person,
communities and the world.
John holds graduate degrees in theology and was ordained
a priest in 1996. His path has led his Catholic roots
to be nourished with a mixture of religious and cultural
traditions that have enriched his understanding that
incarnation--the indwelling of God or divine essence
in the human, every human--is the central teaching of
all ancient belief systems everywhere.
John’s experience of a longed-for connection of
mind, body and spirit as a result of his yoga practice
inspired him to become a teacher of Kundalini Yoga.
In addition to helping him discover “another side
of his soul,” the resulting infusion has become
integral to John’s work of spiritual healing and
direction.
John is currently the Executive Director of Easton Mountain,
Inc., a progressive nonprofit that offers retreats,
workshops and other programs that promote spirituality,
health, community, and social justice.
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|  Jerry
Burke has been a member of the extended community
since the outset and joined the Easton Residential Community
in January of 2006. He worked as a Trust Officer for
a major Boston bank for more than thirty years and then
completed a Masters degree in Social Work at Simmons
College. He is licensed as a social worker in MA (LICSW)
and NY (LMSW). He has two sons (ages 27 and 30) and
talks about them all the time. They seem to like him,
too.
He hopes to use his training and life experience to
serve the community and those who come to Easton for
healing and renewal. He has special interest in life
transitions, gender issues, recovery, spirituality and
healing family of origin wounds. He offers workshops
which open the opportunity to explore participants'
relationships with their fathers and/or with themselves
as a father. He is available to work in intensive brief
therapy in the context of EM as a safe holding environment
for this deep work. |
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 Tim
Cooley thought early in his life he might become
a priest. Five years of Carmelite seminary convinced
him otherwise.
Becoming a member of an ensemble theatre
company was another rewarding path explored, followed
by teaching school and doing social work. When massage
entered his life, he connected with a vocation that
suited him beautifully. He had continued to explore
the wonder of body/mind/spirit connection as a licensed
massage therapist for over twenty years.
Yoga has been an integral part of his
whole adult life. Eventually he completed yoga teacher
training (Interdisciplinary Yoga, as developed by Don
and Amba Stapleton), motivated mainly by a desire to
deepen his own practice. Soon afterward, he was given
the opportunity to teach yoga and has continued to do
so ever since. He feels totally blessed to be able to
share his yoga, massage, and life here at Easton Mountain
Retreat, a place he literally fell in love with at first
sight. |
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|  Harry
Faddis, D.D., CPCC is a professional life coach
and spiritual director who works with gay men focusing
on all male issues, including spirituality, career,
eroticism, finances and personal power. He also facilitates
workshops at Easton; these include Life Coaching, Psychodrama,
Japanese Calligraphy, Fundamentals of Martial Arts,
and Introduction to the Enneagram. He also coordinates
special projects at Easton.
He has been a member of the community since its founding
and is a member of the Board of Directors of Easton
Mountain.
Since 2002 he has been practicing Tae Kwon Do and will
be taking his Black Belt Test in May, 2007. He is the
co-host of a weekly radio show about queer spirituality
with fellow community member Steve Sims. They can be
heard on Fridays, noon to 2:00 p.m. on WRPI.Troy, on
line at http://www.wrpi.org
(Real Audio). To learn more about Harry and his work,
visit his web site at: www.harryfaddis.com |
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 Dave
Sledesky has been living at Easton Mountain since
November 2005, providing support for Easton Mountain community
in a multitude of ways, but primarily as the Front Desk
Manager. He came to Easton from Connecticut, where he
worked for a large insurance company. Dave found Easton
quite by accident when his boyfriend at the time picked
up a brochure at the GLBT center in Hartford, CT. Over
the course of the summer of 2005, he visited Easton on
a regular basis and decided to move to Easton after a
long discernment process. Dave felt called to Easton Mountain
much like he was called to the priesthood when he was
younger (he left seminary before being ordained - THANK
GOD). He has recently started learning Non-Violent Communication
as developed by Marshall Rosenberg to help him be more
compassionate with himself and others. He leads workshops
in Compassionate Communication (a much better term for
Non-Violent Communication, he thinks) to share what he
has learned to help others to communicate with compassion
not only with others but with their own "inner critics"
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