Jenny Adamson
adamsonje6@gmail.com

Jenny Adamson is a retired counselor who has served as a prayer group facilitator and a chapter coordinator in Iowa where she started practicing Centering Prayer about two decades ago. She has been part of the 12-Step Outreach Service team since 2005. She served on the Presenter Formation Service team and she has also served Intensive and Post-intensive retreats at Snowmass, in the Midwest, in Ireland and in Iceland. She and her husband, John, moved to Carbondale, Colorado in 2012 to be close to the Monastery in Snowmass. They love to have people stay overnight on their way to or from Snowmass. Jenny currently serves as the chapter coordinator for the Roaring Fork Valley. Term expires in 2019 but can be renewed for 3 years.

Kathy Di Fede
kathyjoannemarie@gmail.com
619.840.3781

Kathy has been practicing Centering Prayer since 1990. She is a facilitator, commissioned presenter of the Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop and Lectio Divina Workshop and a member of the Living Flame Service Team. She has also served on Intensive/Post-Intensive retreats for Contemplative Outreach of San Diego and served as the Coordinator of COSD for 9 years.
Kathy and her husband Tony live in Lakeside (San Diego County), California. They have 5 children and 4 grandchildren and live with their daughter, son-in-law, and their 2 young children. Term expires in 2021.

Phil Jackson
pjackson@passionist.org

Phil is a commissioned presenter of Centering Prayer and former coordinator for Contemplative Outreach of Chicago. He has attended Thomas Keating’s two Advanced Studies, 16 and 10 days each in an invitation-only monastic setting, spending other weeks in Snowmass as well. He is also a member of Richard Rohr’s Men as Learners and Elders (MALEs), a spiritual director and graduate of Catholic Theological Union. Phil is a father of four. His hobbies include backpacking where he has spent weeks in the wilderness.

Patricia Johnson
pjconout@rof.net

Patricia Johnson is currently serving on the Board of CO, Ltd.  She previously served as a Board member twice before.  Recently she served as an interim administrator for Contemplative Outreach for two years, retiring from that position at the end of 2018.

She and her husband, Bob, moved to the Lama Foundation in 1982 and were only there two months before meeting Fr. Thomas Keating who became her teacher.  She was the Lama liaison for two Intensive retreats that TK led at Lama in August of 1983 and August of 1984.  She also had the privilege and honor in January and February of 1984 to leave the Lama Foundation for three weeks to serve an experimental retreat of nine weeks at St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, CO.  This extended in-depth time at the monastery led to Bob and her and children Sarah and Matthew moving to Snowmass, CO in the fall of 1984.  That began the Snowmass retreats.  From 1984 until 2018, Pat was serving and administrating retreats at the monastery and elsewhere.  Pat retired from serving retreats in 2019 though she still does “sits and talks” for retreatants at Snowmass. Term expires in 20 20 but can be renewed for 3 years.

Maru Ladron de Guevara
rahamin@aol.com

Maru Ladron de Guevara was born and raised in Mexico City and now lives in Florida. She serves Contemplative Outreach and Extension Contemplativa Internacional in areas of pastoral care, spiritual direction and as a presenter. She was also one of Fr. Keating”s Spanish translators. She facilitates intensive and post-intensive Centering Prayer retreats in North, Central and South America. Term expires in 2020 but can be renewed for 3 years.

Carol Quest
questcarol@gmail.com

Carol is a retired high school teacher living in St. Paul, Minnesota who began practicing Centering Prayer in 1993. She is a Centering Prayer group facilitator and a commissioned presenter of the Centering Prayer Introductory Program. As past co-coordinator of the Minnesota Contemplative Outreach chapter, she continues as a member of the chapter coordinating team. She volunteers with a team offering Centering Prayer at a Minnesota state prison.  She has served on the Centering Prayer Introductory Program Service Team and currently is a member of the Chapter Support Service Team. In 2019 she was part or the Contemplative Outreach International Conference Planning Team.

Julie Saad
jasaad@icloud.com
303.619.4426

Julie Saad has been involved with Contemplative Outreach in Denver since 1994 and is a commissioned presenter in Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina and the Welcoming Prayer. She served as the coordinator of the Center for Contemplative Living in Denver and is currently the coordinator of the Contemplative Living Experience program in Denver, a program modeled after the Nine-Month Course. She completed her formation as a spiritual director in 2008 through the Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program offered by Benet Hill Monastery in Colorado Springs. Everyone in the Denver community knows her standard poodle, Madison, who used to come to work with her at the Center every day. A few years ago Julie and Madison rescued Joey, a boxer puppy (or more likely, Joey rescued them!). Term expires in 2019 and but can be renewed for 3 years.

Tom Smith
tas10000@aol.com
727.415.6753 

A resident of Oldsmar, Florida, Tom is in his second term on the Governing Board. He has served Contemplative Outreach in a variety of roles over the past 15 years, as Board Treasurer, Core Team member for the Tampa Bay Chapter, and Centering Prayer group facilitator. Tom and his wife Joan are blessed with two sons and a beautiful new granddaughter.