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The Staff of Easton Mountain
Retreat Center is an interfaith and multi-disciplinary team
who seek to assist our visitors and guests on their path of
spiritual discovery. Together, our team seeks to collaborate
and co-create an environment which assists people in living
soulfully. Our team includes:
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 John
Stasio is the founder of Easton Mountain Retreat.
He has worked as a bodywork therapist, workshop and retreat
facilitator and teacher. He has worked for over fifteen
years assisting people in realizing their dreams and connecting
with their inner source of wisdom, well-being and joy. |
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|  Jerry
Burke has been a member of the extended community
since the outset and joined the Easton Residential Community
in January of 2006. He worked as a Trust Officer for
a major Boston bank for more than thirty years and then
completed a Masters degree in Social Work at Simmons
College. He is licensed as a social worker in MA (LICSW)
and NY (LMSW). He has two sons (ages 27 and 30) and
talks about them all the time. They seem to like him,
too.
He hopes to use his training and life experience to
serve the community and those who come to Easton for
healing and renewal. He has special interest in life
transitions, gender issues, recovery, spirituality and
healing family of origin wounds. He offers workshops
which open the opportunity to explore participants'
relationships with their fathers and/or with themselves
as a father. He is available to work in intensive brief
therapy in the context of EM as a safe holding environment
for this deep work. |
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 Tim
Cooley thought early in his life he might become
a priest. Five years of Carmelite seminary convinced
him otherwise.
Becoming a member of an ensemble theatre
company was another rewarding path explored, followed
by teaching school and doing social work. When massage
entered his life, he connected with a vocation that
suited him beautifully. He had continued to explore
the wonder of body/mind/spirit connection as a licensed
massage therapist for over twenty years.
Yoga has been an integral part of his
whole adult life. Eventually he completed yoga teacher
training (Interdisciplinary Yoga, as developed by Don
and Amba Stapleton), motivated mainly by a desire to
deepen his own practice. Soon afterward, he was given
the opportunity to teach yoga and has continued to do
so ever since. He feels totally blessed to be able to
share his yoga, massage, and life here at Easton Mountain
Retreat, a place he literally fell in love with at first
sight. |
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|  Harry
Faddis, D.D., CPCC is a professional life coach
and spiritual director who works with gay men focusing
on all male issues, including spirituality, career,
eroticism, finances and personal power. He also facilitates
workshops at Easton; these include Life Coaching, Psychodrama,
Japanese Calligraphy, Fundamentals of Martial Arts,
and Introduction to the Enneagram. He also coordinates
special projects at Easton.
He has been a member of the community since its founding
and is a member of the Board of Directors of Easton
Mountain.
Since 2002 he has been practicing Tae Kwon Do and will
be taking his Black Belt Test in May, 2007. He is the
co-host of a weekly radio show about queer spirituality
with fellow community member Steve Sims. They can be
heard on Fridays, noon to 2:00 p.m. on WRPI.Troy, on
line at http://www.wrpi.org
(Real Audio). To learn more about Harry and his work,
visit his web site at: www.harryfaddis.com |
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 Chris
Fields is originally from North Carolina, but
comes to Easton Mountain from New York City where he
has spent the last seventeen years working in the Theater
and on himself. There he found himself missing a closer
contact with nature, for in nature he finds great spiritual
sustenance.
When he arrived at Easton Mountain he was thrilled
that there was a community of gay men who were living
together in a beautiful place and trying to embody a
set of shared values that he also held. Easton Mountain
is an answer to a prayer for him in that it provides
a place to continue in his own spiritual growth and
it offers him a chance to support that growth in others
whether they be fellow residential community members,
members at large or workshop participants. |
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 Steve
Sims comes to Easton Mountain from Seattle, leaving
behind a 20+ year job in retail management and a residential
real estate business. He has a background in non-profit
organization work, having helped create a gay and lesbian
youth drop in center as well as other gay youth programs
in the Seattle area. He is here at Easton on a journey
of self and spiritual growth. |
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 Dave
Sledesky has been living at Easton Mountain since
November 2005, providing support for Easton Mountain community
in a multitude of ways, but primarily as the Front Desk
Manager. He came to Easton from Connecticut, where he
worked for a large insurance company. Dave found Easton
quite by accident when his boyfriend at the time picked
up a brochure at the GLBT center in Hartford, CT. Over
the course of the summer of 2005, he visited Easton on
a regular basis and decided to move to Easton after a
long discernment process. Dave felt called to Easton Mountain
much like he was called to the priesthood when he was
younger (he left seminary before being ordained - THANK
GOD). He has recently started learning Non-Violent Communication
as developed by Marshall Rosenberg to help him be more
compassionate with himself and others. He leads workshops
in Compassionate Communication (a much better term for
Non-Violent Communication, he thinks) to share what he
has learned to help others to communicate with compassion
not only with others but with their own "inner critics"
as well. |
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