Presenters & Seminar Leaders
Board Member, Spirit's Light Foundation
Denny is the owner of ThreeFold Coaching and founding member of Spirit's Light Foundation. She has dedicated her life's work to the development of the Human Potential. She is a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Master Practitioner who works from a client-directed, solution-focused perspective while helping individuals and organizations overcome obstacles and gain skills to achieve personal and professional success. She has provided executive coaching to leaders within the business, educational and not-for-profit sectors as well as training seminars and workshops on leadership excellence.
Musikgarten & Kindermusik Certified
Fionna, an advocate of music for children, currently teaches at Concordia University of Chicago where she instructs piano and runs an Early Childhood Music program. She has worked throughout the city of Chicago including the internationally recognized Ravinia Music Festival where she was a principal instructor in a community outreach program bringing piano lessons to low-income areas of Chicago.
Children's and Family Ministry Coordinator
Association of Unity Churches, International, Lee's Summit, MO
Kathryn oversees the youth and family ministry credentialing programs (Certified Spiritual Educator and Licensed Teacher specializing in Youth and Family Ministry), is editor of Education Links, supports the Religious Emblem program and facilitates the sacred safety training. With 27 years in youth ministry at the local, regional, and national levels, her passion is to create ministries where children know that they are loved and supported by a community of faith that holds them precious and irreplaceable, and to be aware that they have the power to create with God an amazing life.
International Teen Ministry Coordinator
Association of Unity Churches, International, Lee's Summit, MO
Jane is an ordained Unity minister and she has served in three Unity churches. She is also the past president of the Canadian Association of Unity Churches. As a Youth Consultant for the Eastern Region of the Association of Unity Churches, Jane has facilitated seminars and conferences for spiritual educators. She is the author of I of the Storm for Teens and has written curriculum for both the teen and adult I of the Storm books. Jane is a certified HeartMath educator and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at Holos University.
Director of FOCUS Youth
North Lawndale, IL
Nichole has been working with youth in the North Lawndale community for 10 years. After graduating with a Master's Degree in Christian Education from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, she joined Lawndale Christian Development Corporation as their Education Specialist. She served on the board of FOCUS Youth and in February 2006 transitioned into the position of Director. Nichole has a passion for the Developmental Assets and she has been working with and promoting the assets for more than seven years.
Executive Director, Spirit's Light Foundation; Youth Minister, Unity Northwest Church
Diane is an ordained Unity minister specializing in youth and family and is a founding member of Spirit's Light Foundation. She serves as the Children's Ministry Consultant for the Great Lakes Region Unity Conference. She is also the owner of Diane Venzera, LLC, a company dedicated to the creation of curriculum and programs that serve children, teens and families and assist them in recognizing their own Divine nature.
Secretary/Treasurer, Spirit's Light Foundation
Debbi is a Licensed Unity Teacher, a founding member of Spirit's Light Foundation and a life-long student of metaphysics.
Uniteen Consultant for the Great Lakes Region Unity Conference and the Spiritual Leader of Unity of the Lakes in West Branch, Michigan.
She has over 20 years experience working with youth through youth ministry and scouting programs. Eileen has also served as a Uniteen Leader, Interim Youth Director and a member of the AUCI Education Ministry Team. She also serves on the board of Spirit' Light Foundation.
Managing Director: International Youth & Family Ministries
United Centers for Spiritual Living, Golden, CO
Linda has a Master's degree in Consciousness Studies from Holmes Institute and was recently ordained after 3 years in ministry. Ministry was preceeded by 30 years as an advocate, fundraiser and CEO of non profits serving runaway and homeless youth, special needs youth and youth in transition. She is married and has two brilliant adult children.
Director of Education at Renaissance Unity in Warren, Michigan
Lisa has been a Truth student at Renaissance Unity for over 25 years. As a trained Waldorf educator, Lisa has a passion for holistic education – incorporating several learning modalities that relate to the “whole being”. She has led several adult worshops and training programs and has taught arts and academics to1st grade through high school in a variety of learning venues. Lisa is a classically trained pianist and a certified yoga instructor. She is founding member of Devotion – a dance group dedicated to spiritual expression through movement and serves on the board of Unity on Campus Ministries in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Conference Musician
Tricia Alexander
Performing & Healing Artist
The Chicago Sun Times says Tricia Alexander is “one of Chicago's finest folk performers - always a little on the jazzy side.” Humanities Iowa calls her, “a modern day Aesop,” and The Chicago Music Scene, 1960s and 1970s says, “The list of musicians she has shared the concert stage with reads like a who’s who of the Chicago music scene.” Add to that The Folk Music Source Book - which places her "intelligent contemporary writing" in the same league as: Holly Near, Cheryl Wheeler, Anne Hills and Christine Lavin – and you have insight into the Tricia, the performer,
The story behind those quotes spans 30+ years. It’s filled with very human moments and with concerts, festivals, retreats, church services and community arts projects that carried Tricia into schools, theaters, cafes, hospitals and prisons across America, then into Canada and Great Britain.
Tricia is also a Reiki Master Teacher (Usui lineage) and BodyTalk Practitioner. In 1991, when Tricia stepped onto the Reiki path, she immediately began using Reiki in her concerts, workshops and after school programs. She went on to study with Quantum Physicist / Cellular Biologist, Bruce Lipton and Naturopath / Master Teacher, Dr. Michael Ryce. She also served apprenticeships with Meistra Kay Gardner and Patrick Henry (Founding Artistic Director of Free Street Theater).