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
REACH OUT WITH QUESTIONS:
Paul Marincel, St. Paul, Minnesota I have organized with faith communities for many years. I’m now supporting organizing projects on climate change and immigrant justice. I care about Catholic Organizing because it is an essential framework for living out the Gospel -for acting with power in our democracy. Pope Francis challenged us to build power to answer the cries of the earth and the cries of the poor: “unless citizens control political power – national, regional and municipal – it will not be possible to control damage to the environment”.(38 Laudato Deum)