EVENT ORGANIZER + Community Discussion Facilitator:
Teresa B. Pasquale, LCSW, RYT
Teresa is a contemplative prayer advocate, ecumenical and interfaith conversationalist, yoga teacher, and trauma psychotherapist. She leads contemplative prayer groups and facilitates contemplation workshops on the history and various practices of contemplative prayer.
She is the founder of "The Society for Young Christian Contemplatives" which was created in an effort to build, in younger generations, the understanding of, and interest in cultivating silence as "everyday pilgrims" in our contemporary world. She has written articles for The Ooze, Burnside Writer's Collective, The New Social Worker, and America Magazine. She currently blogs weekly at Tikkun Magazine's blog "Tikkun Daily".
In addition, she is the program organizer and co-leader/facilitator of SEEK{ers} program/community for 20's & 30's spiritual seekers. In her spare time she works on two writing projects: a fiction titled Barefoot Saints and a collection of essays titled A Season of Dying.
Teresa lives in Boynton Beach with her husband, Chris, and their three dogs. She can be found online (besides Tikkun) atwww.crookedmystic.org or @tbpasquale (twitter).
Josie Healy
"VOICES Out of Darkness" On-Campus Ambassador
Josie is an active and passionate Bachelor's of Social Work student at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) which makes her the best advocate for our "Voices Out of Darkness" Event. She provides a voice for the important issues which VOICES Event means to bring to the surface and provide community dialogue to explore: issues of addiction, trauma, suicide and emotional distress in 20s + 30s populations.
David Niknafs
Event Support + Technical Volunteer
David supports SEEK{ers} Worship Experience in every way possible from setting up and breaking down everything with and for us to providing technical support, including the ever-important PowerPoint clicker. He has offered his services to assist in the same way for the "VOICES Out of Darkness" Event. When he is not supporting SEEK{ers} Service he runs Reco Institute, as President/Owner helping support people in their addiction recovery.