Rev. Dr. Bozzuti-Jones is an interfaith minister and interspiritual counselor affiliated with One Spirit Learning Alliance in New
York City and involved in development of an interspiritual global curriculum for children. Rev. Dr. Bozzuti-Jones, PhD Dr. Bozzuti-Jones background includes studies in Interfaith ministry and Interspiritual counseling from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary (NYC), under the direction of Rev. Diane Berke, as well as in progressive Christian social ethics at Boston University and Boston College. She has served as a religious educator with children and families for 15 years and is currently on the Faith Formation and Education staff at Trinity Church in New York City, where she is chaplain to Trinity Preschool's multifaith faculty and student body. Kathy also offers private and group spiritual direction, and works with couples to create interfaith wedding and blessing ceremonies. She is a member of the "One Spirit, One Family" Leadership Education Team of One Spirit Interfaith Seminary.
Rev. Dr. Gould is a child therapist, who brings studies in child development and nter-spirituality to her co-presenter role in the Interspiritual Child educational training, representing global education for One Spirit Learning Alliance. Rev. Beverly Gould, Psy.D, LCSW is an interfaith minister, early childhood mental health specialist and psychotherapist working with children 0-5 and their families, most of whom are undocumented. She has worked with young children for 30+ years in low income urban areas in New York and served as a National Head Start Leadership Fellow in Washington D.C. She is a licensed clinical social worker graduated from Columbia University and holds a doctorate in school psychology from New York University. She currently coordinates mental health services for the Early Childhood division of the Child Center of New York and is the Project Director of the 0-3 Trauma Clinic. She currently sits on the board of the New York Zero to Three organization. She is a member of the Inter-spiritual Child education team of One Spirit Learning Alliance.
Ms. Nicole DeVault is an ethics educator, who supports her instruction with music, art and community service. She is a co-presenter for the Inter-Spiritual Child educational training, associated with One Spirit Learning Alliance. Nicole DeVault teaches French, Art and Ethics (Junior K – 5th grade), at the Alexander Robertson School, in New York City. She holds an M.S. Ed., in Multi-Cultural and Urban education, an M.S. Ed., in Leadership and Administration, N.Y. State certified in French and ESL, and is a certified Etiquette and Protocol consultant. A harpist and vocalist, Ms. DeVault enhances and supports her instruction with music, art and movement, in order to facilitate multi-sensory/intelligences in her teaching practice. She is the winner of the 2014 Blackboard Awards for teachers, in recognition of her outstanding work for New York City students as well as, a commemorative award for her work towards non-violence. She is currently studying Inter-spiritual Meditation with Dr. Ed Bastian, Yoga of the Voice with Silvia Nakash, Human Rights Education at USIDHR and collaborating on development of an inter-spiritual global curriculum for children called, The Inter-Spiritual Child.
Nomi Naeem has been a librarian at Brooklyn Public Library, since 2000, and graduated from the Integral Mentoring program at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary (2011-2013), where he also completed one-year training in the Spiritual Counseling program (2018-2019), among several other courses on spirituality, interspirituality, and sacred texts of the world. He also holds a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, and master’s degrees in information studies (University of Toronto, 2000), liberal studies (Graduate Center, CUNY, 2016), interdisciplinary studies (Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2019), and is currently enrolled in master’s in English Literature program at Brooklyn College. Ever since he got introduced to Edward Bastian’s ISM (Interspiritual Meditation) Philosophy in 2008, he has taken several courses with him (ISM Meditation, ISM Mentoring, ISM Mandala, ISM Facilitator), and hopes to develop and implement educational curriculum based on ISM, for children and parents. In addition to Interspiritual Meditation, his current research interests include human rights, interfaith dialogue, multiple intelligences, nonviolent communication, mindfulness for children, philosophy for children, and the Great Books/Films of East & West.
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Rev. Sara is the driving force behind the Inter-spiritual Child education project, bringing years of experience in interfaith ministry, arts education, grand/parenting and world travel to her role as co-presenter in the Inter-spiritual Child training. Rev. Sara Stoker is an interfaith minister with many years' experience in arts and philanthropy. A graduate of Wellesley College, she has lived all over the world and brings her cultural fluency to the Inter-spiritual Child project at One Spirit Learning Alliance. She has served on the One Spirit board, taught meditation for children at St. Bartholomew's Church, and initiated the One Spirit, One Family education project.