Andrew Breitenberg
Andrew teaches inner spiritual development for groups and individuals, regularly facilitating retreats and seminars in this tradition. He has worked closely with Cynthia Bourgeault for many years and serves on the Board of the Claymont Society in West Virginia. His main areas of focus within the contemplative Christian tradition are embodied meditation and the practical work it takes to experience and live out spiritual wisdom in service of one's family, community, and Mother Earth.
Chris Breitenberg
Chris is the Chair of Parallel Group's Board. He focuses his life’s work at the meeting place of peace-building and personal and community agency. This pursuit has led him to positions running leadership training programs in South Asia, directing a communications department for an international NGO and working with Andrew on all manner of adventurous pursuits. He currently heads up the national work of Rising Tide Capital, a nonprofit focused on transforming lives and communities through entrepreneurship.
Chris is a graduate of Davidson College with a degree in Religion, a writer of music and liturgy and lover of food. He is a husband to Amber and a father to two beautiful daughters, Mirabai and Wren.
Matthew Hutchins
Matthew Hutchins is a husband and arborist that has always been seeking to go deeper into life. Matthew has found working outside to be a pathway towards oneness with our earth and spiritual work. He loves caring for people and learning about our connection to this world.
David Finn
David Finn is a CPA and serves on the Board of Parallel Group as our Treasurer. He is a husband and a father and is passionate about truth, conscious outdoor labor, and fire building.
Working Advisory Team
Our Advisory Team is expanding. If you have an interest in coming alongside us in this capacity, please reach out.
Cynthia Bourgeault, Ph.D
Cynthia is a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally acclaimed retreat leader, traveling globally to spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths. She is a faculty member emeritus of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the founding director of an international network of Wisdom schools, uniting classic Christian mystical and monastic teaching with contemporary practices of mindfulness and embodied presence.
Karim Payton, Ph.D
Kim is certified as an organizational psychologist by the American Board of Professional Psychologists and provides strategic planning, leadership development, culture change, and executive coaching to a wide range of organizational clients. Kim currently serves as the head of the Mevlevi Order of America.
Heather Ruce
Heather offers teaching and guidance in various embodied Wisdom, contemplative and mindfulness practices including Centering Prayer, Christian meditation, sacred chanting, lectio divina, conscious work, and sacred gestures in service of waking up and putting on the Mind of Christ.
Art Ross
Art brings years of experience in professional camp settings developing learning programs for children at Camp Wamava and Camp Rockmont for Boys. He is also an excellent DJ @artmademedance.