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:

 
Residents
Staff Board of Directors

Jerry Burke
Tim Cooley
Harry Faddis
Howie Geib
Dave Sledesky
Sunfire

John Anderson, Executive Director
Al Desnoyers, Kitchen
Sheldon Hartman, Operations Director
Tracy Hunt, Maintenance
John Stasio, Founder

Chris Bartlett
Harry Faddis
Will Gray
Paul Jennings
Ron King
Mike Kutter
Dave Nimmons
Hugh Russell, President
John Stasio
Sunfire, Secretary
Blair Voyvodic
Carey Wagner


Picture of John StasioJohn 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 with their inner source of wisdom, well-being and joy.
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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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Picture of Harry FaddisHarry 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" as well.
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