Your co-conspirators...
Molleen Dupree-Dominguez (she/her/hers), M.Div. is a teacher, writer, and spiritual director in Oakland, CA. In addition to teaching Religious Studies at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, she created a podcast, On a Mission: Conversations with People who Get Real and Go Deep. Find more about her at molleendupreedominguez.com
Desiré Findlay (she/her/hers), is a spiritual director, dancer, and writer currently living in the Chicago area. Her work mainly focuses on empowering women, addressing major life changes, and finding freedom. You can usually find Desiré enjoying the sunshine with her fluffy dog, Beau. Read more about Desiré and her work at https://insideandout.my.canva.site/
Christy Hicks Aydt (she/her/hers) is the Regional Director for the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, St. Louis where she lives with her husband and family. She is a spiritual director, preacher, and prayer companion for the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Christy has worked in campus ministry, hospital chaplaincy,publishing, and is a co-convener for the Catholic Women’s Preaching Circle.
Ann Naffziger (she/her/hers) is a spiritual director, retreat leader, and group facilitator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked in parish ministry, hospital chaplaincy, field education, and pastoral publishing. In her spare time she likes to grow food, coach softball, bicycle, and foster meaningful connections in her neighborhood. You can find her at: https://annnaffziger.org
The history of DDS...
This workshop emerged out of one-to-ones and small group conversations with those interested in working to restore women to the ordained ministry of the diaconate in the Catholic Church. So in a particular way, if the question of women’s ministry is important for you, this is a space to go deeper. Maybe God is calling you to formal ministry and maybe God is calling you elsewhere. Let’s find out!
We also welcome participants who yearn for deep, spiritual community and who see themselves as bridge builders, animators of social mission, community organizers, artists and creatives. We want to trust what is emerging and give you space to work on a project that has been on your heart for some time, but for which you haven’t had the space and support to really plot it out and move it into the world. Our desire is to help strengthen our collective work for spiritual renewal and structural reform (aka: synodality!) by nurturing leaders and those who are discerning their place in living the mission of the Gospel.
Discern, Dream, Scheme offered its first cohort in summer of 2020, and its second cohort in December 2020. This is a call for a third cohort.
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No - anyone of any gender is welcome to participate in this program.
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No - anyone who is intrigued by this program description is welcome. No creedal tests required!
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Yes - we are asking for a donation based on what you can afford - from $50-$500 for the full six-week program
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Suzanne Gagné-Bregman, M.A. completed her Masters in Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley California, in affiliation with the Jesuit School of Theology. Her professional and personal faith journey, shaped by Ignatian spirituality, has taken her on a variety of paths. She worked in the corporate sector, served as continuing education director for the Catholic schools of the Graduate Theological Union, and served for years as a lay ecclesial minister. A liturgist, preacher, and more by vocation and an artist by temperament, she loves putting ritual, symbol and music at the service of prayer and contemplation. After years of service in parish ministry, she now brings her diverse gifts and skills to the service of families preparing funerals for their loved ones. She has been affiliated with discerning Deacons since its inception.