Retreat Facilitator
Colleen “Coke” Tani
Colleen “Coke” Tani is a spiritual director/companion, writer and InterPlay(c) leader. She was once a hospice/bereavement therapist as well as congregational coordinator of spiritual nurture. She misses and communes with her deceased parents everyday.
Cathie Tani
Cathie Tani is a retired elementary and middle school teacher and a bereaved mother of two children. She helps lead grief support ministries and coordinates memorial services at her church, offering comfort and compassion to those experiencing loss.
Leigh Shindo
Leigh Shindo is an Educator, Family Assistant and a Reiki Master Practitioner. Caregiving her brother and parents through their transitions, she feels, is an honor. She lives her life with love, gratitude and resilience at its core.
Cathie Tani, Leigh Shindo, and Coke Tani
Cathie, Leigh, and Coke are educators, grief support facilitators, energy healers, artists, and spiritual directors who have all experienced great losses as well as life in the aftermath. Their unique approach to bereavement care includes movement meditation, arts & crafts, and communal altar-making.
Fr. Mike Hutchins, SVD
Fr. Mike Hutchins is a Divine Word Missionary, now semi-retired. Over the years, he has served primarily in educational ministries, including high school teaching in South Los Angeles, college teaching in the Philippines, seminary formation and administration in Divine Word institutions in the U.S. Midwest. He has enjoyed complementary ministries in Worldwide Marriage Encounter and, […]
Elsy Arevalo, M.A.
Elsy Arevalo, M.A., mother/wife, spiritual director, assistant director for the Center for Religion & Spirituality at Loyola Maymount University where she heads the Family Spirituality course & the Ministeries in Spanish certification program.
Laureen Lazarovici & Victor Narro
Laureen and Victor, both trained SoulCollage® Facilitators, have guided participants in settings from UCLA to the Religious Education Congress. Their passion is helping people bring their whole, authentic selves into their homes, work, and communities.
