Dialogue Mentors
Darcy Wharton, Dialogue Mentor
Darcy has served as an active mentor in DynamicDialogue since 2016. Her clients are individuals (primarily in retirement) who seek to engage the practice of dialogue to live more peacefully within their families, friends, and faith communities. She is also interested in clients who are parents and are seeking to build a strong foundation in dialogue with their children.
Originally trained through the two-year practicum, Darcy also facilitates a monthly Community of Practice in DynamicDialogue . Since she sees dialogue as a spiritual practice, she is currently in the formation process for spiritual direction and hopes to incorporate dialogue work into her future spiritual direction practice. After initially working with children as an elementary school teacher, for the past 20 years she has served full time in ministry. She is now serving as the Coordinator of Adult Faith Formation at SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Rocklin. She and her husband are parents of three young adult daughters. Darcy's hobbies include volunteer work, reading, assisting her husband with home wine-making, and spending time in nature.
Debbie Baker, Dialogue Facilitator, Dialogue Mentor
Debbie is a graduate of the 2-year dialogue practicum and a certified DynamicDialogue mentor. Since 2014, she has worked with a variety of audiences to help them develop their inherent gifts of peaceful presence, authentic relationship and inspired creativity. As a mentor, she helps others to become aware of their quality of presence and engagement; focusing on ways to move past default defensiveness, and mindfully honoring how we are all truly interdependent.
Joan Byard, Dialogue Mentor
Joan’s scholastic training in the sciences coupled with
her passion for all of Creation led her to fashion a continuing 4-decade career
of service to the creatures among us and the humans who hold them dear. The work bringing her most joy has been tending to the ‘in-between
places’—bridging the gap experienced between veterinary professionals and all
the wonderful medicine that science has to offer, and the animals’ health needs
and their devoted caregivers at home. Dialogue work is the bridging
tool that brings these together in powerful and life-changing ways.
Joan graduated with the 2014 Dialogue Practicum class – a
2-year intensive training, and has participated in many 4-day DynamicDialogue workshops. She continues to be active in ongoing communities of dialogue
practices, continuing education, and has had extensive Mentor training.
Joan’s mentoring skills are expanded through intensive training in the
art of Spiritual Direction, as well as her years of receiving and offering
personal Spiritual Direction. Her broad-based faith is deeply rooted in
lived recovery spirituality.
These learned core practice skills and ways of being offer a rich ground from which to navigate as a DynamicDialogue mentor in the sometimes turbulent waters of family and/or organizational dynamics and interpersonal relationships.
