Frank Rogers is a spiritual director, supervisor, certified IFS practitioner, retreat leader, writer, and professor of spiritual formation at the ecumenical and inter-faith Claremont School of Theology. He has taught spirituality, contemplative practice, and compassionate social engagement for over 30 years, and has written numerous articles and books including Cradled in the Arms of Compassion: A Spiritual Journey from Trauma to Recovery; Practicing Compassion; and Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus. As the Co-Director for the Center for Engaged Compassion, he offers and teaches compassion-based approaches to spiritual direction and supervision. 

Andrew (Andy) Dreitcer, PhD, has been a professor of spirituality & spiritual formation, a spiritual director, a collaborator in the neuroscientific study of contemplative practices across religious traditions, an academic dean, and the founding director of one of the first spiritual direction programs in North America that was connected with graduate theological education. An award winning author, his spiritual life has been shaped by engagement with IFS, restorative justice work with incarcerated populations, and a year spent living at the French monastic community of Taizé. He and his life partner live in Oregon and have two adult daughters and 4 grandchildren.

Aizaiah is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), spiritual director formed for the past decade in the compassion practice, and trained level two practitioner in the Internal Family Systems healing modality. Devoting his energy to collective healing and ad­vocacy work, Yong focuses his leadership and scholarship on interreligious and inter­cultural dialogue, contemplative spirituality, spiritual care, and critical mixed-race studies.

Dr. Alane Daugherty is a professor from the Kinesiology Dept. at Cal Poly Pomona, and director of the Mind and Heart Research Lab on campus. She is a writer, speaker, and Professor. Her work focuses on teaching people how to transform chaotic and limiting emotional patterns to ones that are self-affirming, life-enhancing, and transformative. She is the author of Unstressed: How Somatic Awareness Can Transform Your Body's Stress Response and Build Emotional Resilience, From Mindfulness to Heartfulness: A Journey of Transformation through the Science of Embodiment, and The Power Within: From Neuroscience to Transformation. She also is a regular contributor to Psychology Today.

Karri Backer is a spiritual director, therapist, and an Episcopal priest currently serving as Vicar at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Riverside.  She has spent several years exploring the intersections between faith, spirituality, and mental health and is especially drawn to spaces where she can support individuals in finding healing and wholeness in their lives.  Karri has training in Internal Family Systems, the Compassion Practice, and Ignatian spirituality, and applies a trauma-informed focus to these approaches.

Nancy Linton has offered spiritual direction for 22 years, and supervision since 2018. For twenty five years, she taught Women’s Studies at the Oregon Extension, an interdisciplinary college program, where she lived in community with four faculty families. Each fall 30 undergraduates joined them-- living simply, reading deeply, and conversing daily, in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.  Here she developed a Women’s Studies May Term; co-edited, Home is Where You’re Going, Crossing Borders and Risking Solidarity through Women's Studies, and began working in contemplative retreats and trainings for the Compassion Practice.  Completing Level 1 in Internal Family Systems deepens her practice, where she integrates body focusing and envisions herself a midwife,  attending to  persons in the process of flourishing into all the Sacred holds.

Leslie Adams is a certified spiritual director who has found IFS to be a welcoming and healing modality in her work and in her life. She is a clinical social worker who specializes in palliative care, and has primarily worked with families of very ill and dying children. She is currently the director of a post-graduate palliative care fellowship program for chaplains and social workers.