Mindy is the co-founder and president of Soul Care. In the past has served in executive leadership at Gloo, and the Willow Creek Association (now Global Leadership Network). She speaks and advises into organizations including Compassion International, ECFA, National Christian Foundation, and many churches and ministries across the US and beyond. Mindy’s books include Discovering Soul Care, Spiritual Friendship, STIR and Ignite Your Soul (September '24).

Matt Erickson is the Senior Pastor of Eastbrook Church, a multi-ethnic church on the north side of Milwaukee, where he has served since 2010. Matt has served as a worship pastor, pastor with university students, and a church planter. Matt helped found The Milwaukee Declaration, an organization convening pastors and churches around Milwaukee to work together across racial divides. Matt is married to Kelly, who is a spiritual director operating her own private practice, Hills and Valleys, and they are blessed with three amazing sons in college and beyond. Matt writes about life with God and pastoral ministry in various places, including Preaching Today, Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, Christianity Today, The Living Church, and Relevant, and is currently working on a full-length book with Eerdmans Publishers. You can find out more at Matt’s blog: mwerickson.com. 

Marilyn Vancil has been passionate about the Enneagram personality model and its value in Christian spiritual transformation for over thirty years. She's now even more passionate about helping people listen to God, experience inner soul restoration, and enjoy a life of freedom and fullness as their true, God-gifted self.



She earned her certification as an Enneagram Professional in the Narrative Tradition through Enneagram Worldwide, and has also taken courses on the Enneagram at Loyola University and the Deep Coaching Institute.



She completed my spiritual director training through SoulStream and her coaching instruction through Coach Training Alliance. She is a member of ESDA, an organization that supports the work of spiritual direction with a Jesus-centered focus.



She enjoys life near Spokane, WA with her husband, Jeff and their beloved dog, Scout. Their four children, their spouses, and eleven precious grandchildren live nearby, and they continuously bring her unlimited delight!

Jared Patrick Boyd is a pastor (Vineyard USA), spiritual director, and founding director of the Order of the Common Life, a missional monastic order reimagining religious vocations for the 21st century. In local pastoral ministry he works to bring together the contemplative, charismatic, and sacramental streams of the church. Jared and his wife have four daughters and live in the west-side neighborhood of Franklinton in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of Imaginative Prayer and Finding Freedom in Constraint.

Cindy Lee is a spiritual director, aspiring mystic, and proudly Taiwanese-American. She is an adjunct professor and teaches in the areas of spirituality, mysticism, and spiritual direction. She also trains new spiritual directors with Liberated Together. She completed a PhD in the area of Christian spirituality from Claremont School of Theology and leads retreats on BIPOC centered spirituality. She is the author of Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation (2022).

Doug Moister is a Spiritual Director passionate about helping followers of Jesus no matter where they are on the journey pursue wholeheartedness and a robust life with God. His shepherding heart serves him well in this ancient practice. He has been trained as a Spiritual Director through Sustainable Faith and belongs to the ESDA community. He also founded and co-hosts a weekly podcast called the Monday Morning Pastor (MMP). Doug is the lead pastor of the Renew Community in Lansdale PA, which gathers in both House Churches and all together on an every-other-week rhythm.



Doug has his MDiv from Missio seminary and is pursuing his DMin from Portland seminary. (the dissertation has taken much longer than he expected…) Doug is a life-long learner, a church history nerd, an outdoor enthusiast, and a passionate fly fisherman that haunts local streams chasing rising fish in his spare time.



Doug and his wife, Mear are into their second decade of marriage and still have way too much fun. They enjoy spending time with their children Caleb and Kiley outside in the woods, mountains, rivers, and lakes.

Curtis "CZ" Zackery is perhaps best known for his deep empathy and contagious passion for the gospel, which defies barriers of age, ethnicity, and religion. Whether teaching, speaking, or writing, CZ provides a perspective on the gospel that is raw, accessible, and relevant.



Curtis has served in various ministry and leadership roles over the last 15 years-including church planting, pastoring, and speaking on rest, the kingdom, and the beauty of the gospel. Curtis, his wife Monique, and two sons, Noah and Micah, currently live in Franklin, TN.



You can read more about his current ministry at FindRest.org.

Sarah Cowan Johnson is a ministry trainer, consultant, and coach who works with church planters, pastors, and ministry leaders across the United States. She is the author of Teach Your Children Well: A Step-by-Step Guide for Family Discipleship, and leads seminars for parents on family discipleship to help their children walk in the way of Jesus. She served with the Evangelical Covenant Church as the executive pastor for Sanctuary Church in Providence, Rhode Island, and previously was a staff trainer and an area director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She and her husband have two sons and live in Providence.

 Geoff Holsclaw (PhD) is cohost of the Embodied Faith podcast, which seeks a neuroscience-informed spiritual formation. He is also an affiliate professor of theology at Northern Seminary (Lisle, Illinois) and a pastor at Vineyard North in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Geoff is author of several books, most recently Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us.

Bobbie Schaeperkoetter is the Online Campus Coordinator at Capital City Christian Church in Jefferson City, MO where she also serves in the areas of Spiritual Formation, Discipleship, and Women’s Ministry. Bobbie is also the President of INSPIRE, a city wide multi denominational non-profit women’s ministry.



Bobbie is a Spiritual Director and has a Masters in Ministry Leadership from Central Christian College of the Bible and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Ministry degree at Biola University.



Bobbie has a passion for helping people learn what it truly looks like to be a disciple of Jesus in their everyday lives.

Steve is the author of Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs and the founder of www.capablelife.me, an online community helping you to function as a calm, aware, present human in the work place and home place. Steve has served in a variety of pastoral roles for 26 years, the majority of those years as a lead pastor. He is also proud to be a strategic partner with Compassion International, Leadership Network, and Missio Alliance.



Steve was privileged to grow up in Perth, Western Australia, in an adventurous family of origin. After moving to the United States for theological study, he married Lisa and they have two sons anda daughter, in whom they take great delight. When Steve is not working, you can find him laughing with his family, knee-deep in a trout stream, or trying a guitar he cannot afford at a local music store.

Jenni Wong Clayville was born and raised in Seattle, WA. but she and her family now live in the Washington D.C area. She is wife to Brian and boy-mom to Chance & Paxton. Jenni currently serves at National Community Church as the Weekend Experience Pastor and is part of the teaching team at the Northern Virginia location. Over the past two decades, she has served as a Pastor in Portland, OR., El Paso, TX., Oklahoma City, OK., and Fort Worth, TX. Her ministry experience has varied in positions such as Worship & Creative Arts, First Impressions, and Executive Pastor. Jenni also serves on the leadership team of Leading and Loving It for over ten years and recently on the Propel Ecclesia Team to support women in ministry internationally. Jenni is a life-long learner, an unpretentious foodie, a more pretentious coffee lover, and a self-proclaimed comedienne.

Chris Breslin serves as the pastor at Oak Church in Durham, NC. Chris is the proud husband to Rachel, and dad to Noa, Titus, Emett, and Simeon. He enjoys reading and learning about intersections between theology, place, and the arts, smoking meats, tending a small flock of laying hens, adding to his vinyl music collection, and following FSU & Bucs football/Bulls & Rays baseball/Duke hoops. He serves on the board of Housing for New Hope, coaches at Bull City Little League, and facilitates Field Education Theological Reflection groups for Duke Divinity School.

Lisa Rodriguez-Watson, for nearly two decades, has served as an urban church planter, collegiate minister, seminary professor, international missionary and community development practitioner. Her heart to see people reconciled to God and to one another has led her to invest her life, family and ministry in places and people that have often been looked over by the world.



Lisa served as co-founder of a grassroots organization in Memphis, TN that was committed to mobilizing Christians to love their undocumented neighbors, and consider an appropriate Christian response to our nation’s immigration crisis. In addition to her role as National Director of Missio Alliance, she serves as Associate Pastor of Discipleship and Equipping at Christ City Church.



Educated at Florida International University and Golden Gate Seminary, she now lives in Washington, DC where she is a mom to 3 fantastic children, Nathan, Elias, and Annelies, and a wife to her best friend Matthew, who serves as Pastor of Teaching and Outreach at Christ City Church. 

Trained at Sustainable Faith’s School of Spiritual Direction in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dan Henry has been offering spiritual direction to groups and individuals since 2010. He has been an instructor for the school since early 2015. In January of 2016 he left his full-time pastoral role at Vineyard Cincinnati after 14 years, and now devotes himself exclusively to the work of spiritual direction leading retreats, and training spiritual directors.



Dan has special passion for accompanying pastors and other ministers through the difficulties that are particular to their kinds of work. He also loves working with those who find themselves on a journey of spiritual deconstruction/reconstruction.



Born in Hawaii, Dan grew up in a military family, so he lived in several different states. Five different Elementary Schools, two Middle Schools and three High Schools taught him the value of adaptability (among other things). . He eventually followed his sweetheart, Tracey, from Oregon to Southern California where they married in 1975. Career-wise, Dan traversed both the Tech and Church worlds as: worship leader, pastor, internet engineer, internet architect—always helping connect people with “something bigger.” With Tracey, he now celebrates having raised three beloved children, two of whom have increased the Henry tribe by marrying amazing spouses. To quote Dan, “It’s a wonderful life!”

Weylin Lee is a pastor at Vox Veniae, a contemplative and liturgical church community in East Austin. He had a background and career in technology consulting before joining the team that planted Vox in 2006. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Northpark Seminary. Weylin and Rachel have three kids who span college, high school and middle school. Some of his favorite places in the world that he’s traveled to include: Iceland, New Zealand, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Thailand, Belize and Hawaii.

John Carroll serves with Dallas Willard Ministries as the Director of their School of Kingdom Living, an 18-month journey of learning and training in community intended for anyone who wants to put on the character of Christ through a practical, effective approach to biblical discipleship.



With a Bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary, John brings a unique blend of experience (11 years in business, 9 years in the local church) to DWM.



John has a shepherd's heart and is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church. His great passion is for the two "ships" in life: DiscipleSHIP and RelationSHIP, which underscores the importance and purpose of the School of Kingdom Living.



John has been married to his wife, Amber, for 21 years. Together, they have two teenage children and two shih tzu’s. They reside in Melbourne, Florida. For fun, John likes to surf, read and watch football (not at the same time).



About the School of Kingdom Living



Dallas Willard said, "The most important work happening in our world is leading people deeper into kingdom living.”  Dallas Willard Ministries' School of Kingdom Living is an 18-month journey of learning and training in community intended for anyone who wants to put on the character of Christ  through a practical, effective approach to biblical discipleship. If you are seeking a deeper relationship with God in the context of a loving community of friends, you’re invited to learn more or apply at dwillard.org/sklTo start the conversation about joining an upcoming cohort, reach out to John Carroll at johnc@dwillard.org

Serving as Lead Pastor for over two decades in churches across the country from Southern California to New York City, AJ Sherrill is thrilled to be pastoring Saint Peters Church in Mount Pleasant, SC. Having earned several Masters degrees in theology and a Doctorate in the area of spiritual formation, I teach courses on preaching and also the Enneagram at Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as workshops on spiritual formation and personality theory. Most importantly, I am a disciple of Jesus, husband to Elaina, and father to Eloise. Least importantly, I am an unfortunate Michigan fan, thus winning seldom, but often gaining humility.



Books Authored —



Being With God: The Absurdity, Necessity and Neurology of Contemplative Prayer,



The Enneagram For Spiritual Formation: How Knowing Ourselves Can Make Us More Like Jesus,



Expansive: Stretching Beyond Superficial Christianity

Katie Haseltine is a trained Spiritual Director and a certified Enneagram coach. After trying too hard for most of her life, Katie found rest in the words of Jesus―love God with all your heart, mind, and body and love others as you love yourself. The ancient practices of spiritual direction, the Enneagram, and the Examen ushered Katie into a fuller, richer relationship with God, herself, and others―and compelled her to offer another way to others like her. Katie lives with her family in Franklin, TN.

For 19 years, Mike served on staff with Parkcrest Christian Church in Long Beach, CA. The last 11 of those years, he served as the Lead Pastor, transitioning the church towards multiplication models of church planting and discipleship communities, while also shifting a largely homogenous church towards more diversity, helping to create experiences for the church to live in the biblical tension of unity in the midst of diversity. 



Currently, in addition to teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Ministry and Bible at Hope International University, he helps churches and church leaders engage with nuance and thoughtfulness in difficult conversations that they are often not having. He guides and mentors individuals as they walk through transitions of deconstruction and reconstruction of their faith. He also works with churches and leaders who are finding new ways for the church to move forward in post-evangelical realities.



He and his wife Allison have been married for over 20 years, with two teenage children. In the summers, you will often find them hiking, biking and camping together.