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• General Information

• Phone (860) 322-5770
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  Staff
• Adam Fuller
  Executive Director
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  Rhonda Nutile
  Operations Director
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  Jim Emswiler
  Sales Manager
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  Janet Kass
  Retreat Services Manager
  Janet@guesthousecenter.org

  Laura Way
  Program Registration Coordinator
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  Sam Johnson
  Executive Chef
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  Michael Levien
  Executive Assistant
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  William Galvin
  Maintenance Manager
• Ten Directions Board Members

  Laurie Leonard, Chair
  Jill Berman, Vice-Chair
  Cory Greenberg, Treasurer
  Jerry O’Halloran, Secretary
  Jorge Arango
  Leslie Chyten
  Waltraud Ireland
  Walter Link
  Bonalyn Mosteller
  Marlene Reisman
  David Schulz
  Josie Sentner
  Don Shaw
  Patricia Simko
  Sarah Tremaine
  Susan Weiley
  Laura Wells
• Laurie Leonard, Chair, was for ten years the President and General Manager of an NBC-affiliated television station that won many national awards for its news, programming and marketing. She has an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Laurie has served on the board of directors of many organizations, including a bank, a library, a chamber of commerce, a tourism bureau, and a crisis hotline. She was Vice-President of Public Relations for United Way in Wisconsin and served as Treasurer of a large co-op building in New York City. Currently a licensed social worker specializing in death, dying, and bereavement, Laurie has been a Diamond Approach student since 2000.
• Jill Berman, Vice-Chair, served in the NYC school system in positions ranging from high school social studies teacher to the supervisor/administrator of an alternative high school. More recently she worked with the Bank Street College of Education Leadership Center as a Facilitator/ Consultant. As an Advisor in the college’s Principals Institute Jill facilitated the professional growth of aspiring school leaders. Holding an Ed. D. from Teachers College in Educational Administration, she is a past president of the National Council of Administrative Women in Education and of its NYC chapter. She also was on the Allocations Committee of the New York Women’s Foundation. Jill has been a Diamond Approach student since 2000.
• Cory Greenberg, Treasurer, is a financial and management consultant to small businesses and serves as part-time CFO to one of those businesses. He has been Treasurer and partner in several movie theaters in the New York metropolitan area, and was the CFO of a small publicly traded natural foods company. Cory is President and a founding board member of the Cooperative Capital Fund of New England, is Loan Committee Chairperson, board member (since 1992) and former Treasurer of the Cooperative Fund of New England, and is on the advisory board of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. Cory has been a student of the Diamond Approach since 2003.
• Jerry O’Halloran, Secretary, is a Managing Partner of OFI, a Rhode Island company involved in a variety of domestic and international investment projects. He also directs the O’Halloran Family Foundation, which invests in not for profit organizations, with a special interest in groups that work at the intersection of education, the arts and social change. Jerry has loved music and theatre all his life; he performs with both a community theatre group and a community chorus. A Diamond Approach student since 2001, Jerry previously studied with Lama Surya Das in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
• Jorge S. Arango has been an interior design writer, editor and stylist for over fifteen years. He has co-authored two design books and writes regularly for many national design magazines, including Metropolitan Home, Elle Decor and Robb Report. His interests in art and design led to board work with the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, a national first-responder organization for artists who suffer career-threatening emergencies, which he chaired from 2004-2006. He continues to consult with CERF on marketing and re-branding issues. Jorge has been a student of the Diamond Approach since 2004.
• Leslie Chyten is a Diamond Approach Teacher who works with groups in New York, Boston and Toronto. She has developed and facilitated numerous workshops on topics ranging from creativity to communications. She is also a psychotherapist with a private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. She has also written two novels, and is working on a third.
• Waltraud Ireland has provided workshops and ongoing group practice of dialogue based on principles developed by David Bohm for the past decade. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University and has taught European history at the college level. She also holds a post-doctoral degree in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from New York University, is a licensed psychoanalyst and has had a private psychotherapy practice for many years. She has been a student of the Diamond Approach for ten years and is an inquiry group leader.
• Walter Link is a Diamond Approach Teacher and member of the Ridhwan Foundation Board; Chair, The Global Academy; Co-chair, Global Leadership Network; board member Omega Institute and Institute for Noetic Sciences; former board member Naropa University; co-founder Presidio School of Management’s MBA in Sustainable Management; co-founder Human Rights Watch European Union office, co-founder of Social Venture Network Europe and Empresa, two networks of Corporate Responsibility Business Organizations throughout Europe and the Americas; former partner of B.Grimm, an Asian-European group of industrial companies.
• Bonalyn Mosteller, Ed.D., has operated her own organizational development consulting business outside Philadelphia for over twelve years, specializing in organizational change, leadership development, strategic planning and coaching. Holding an Ed.D. degree from Temple University, she initially worked in public education and then as an internal OD consultant in healthcare organizations. In her consulting practice, Bonalyn works with both corporate clients and not-for-profits, where she specializes in board development. The study of psychology has been her passion for much of her life, and currently she serves on the boards of two behavioral health organizations. Bonalyn has been a Diamond Approach student for more than fifteen years.
• David Schulz heads the New York office of Levine, Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., a national media law firm representing news and entertainment organizations in defamation, privacy, newsgathering, access, intellectual property and related First Amendment matters. An adjunct professor of media law at Columbia Law School, David has been defending the rights of journalists and news organizations for nearly 30 years. David is a Trustee of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and has served on the boards of several public and private organizations, including the Hudson Valley Greenway Conservancy and the New York Committee on Open Government. He has been a Diamond Approach student since 2001.
• Josie Sentner, has been a principal and executive in the financial field in private equity, buyouts and venture capital. Most recently she has been active in microfinance, working with international networks that provide services to very poor women in Latin America, Africa and Asia. She has served on a number of not for profit boards and is currently a board member of Fonkoze, the largest microfinance institution in Haiti, AccessAfricaNOW, and member of the President’s Council of Accion International. She has been a Diamond Approach student since 2001.
• Don Shaw has for twenty years been the owner and principal of Donald Shaw Interiors, Inc., an international residential design firm based in New York City. A serious pianist, he was a semi-finalist at the first Van Cliburn Amateur Competition in Fort Worth and shared the first prize at the Northeastern Classical Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2002. Don graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in theatre and attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City. He has been a Diamond Approach student since 2005.
• Susan Weiley, a Diamond Approach teacher, is one of three leaders of Emerald Mountain 4, an ongoing Diamond Approach group in New York City. With a background as a photographer, writer and editor, Susan worked in the New York publishing world for thirty years, including a long stint as an editor in the publications department of The Museum of Modern Art, and as a photography journalist and critic for the magazine Art News. Today Susan regularly leads reading/inquiry groups, facilitates process groups and works with students individually. For the last twenty years she has also had an ongoing private practice in healing, hypnotherapy and spiritual counseling in New York. Susan has been a Diamond Approach student since 1994.

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