Mentors

Danielle Shroyer (she/her/hers) is a spiritual director, author, speaker, and former pastor. She currently serves as Scholar-in-Residence at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas where she creates formation resources and experiences rooted in wisdom spirituality. Danielle is a graduate of Baylor University and Princeton Theological Seminary and was a founding member of the emerging church […]

Amy Rio (she,her,hers) has been an ordained United Methodist minister for over 30 years. After spending most of her career in collegiate ministry, she currently serves as the Lead Minister of Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church in Charlotte and Salisbury, NC. She is a graduate of the Haden Institute’s Spiritual Direction Program where she received certification. […]

Mark Ritchie (he/him/his) is a spiritual director, life coach, racial equity and social justice advocate, non-profit advisor, owner of StillPoint Retreat, and cultural traveler. After much soul searching and a healing dream, he left his CEO career in 2007 to pursue a call to lay ministry centered on finding purpose and meaning. He is a graduate […]

Layne Racht, M.A., LCMHC, LPC (she/her/hers) is a Certified Spiritual Director and Spiritual Direction Supervisor.  While working many years as a psychotherapist, Layne found herself drawn to spiritual direction where she was able to bring both spirituality and psychology into her work and personal life. She has taught with several Spiritual Direction Training Programs and served […]

Fonda McWilliams (she/her) is an intuitive dreamer and lifelong seeker of the meaning found in the flow of Life.  She is a certified Dream Work Facilitator and Spiritual Director who companions individuals and groups as we listen and open to the heights and depths of this human journey.  Fonda has facilitated a weekly community dream group […]