Jean Holsten, Director of Dialogue Programs and Consultant, Facilitator, and Mentor for DynamicDialogue®

Jean directs the dialogue programs at Bread of Life, a community-benefit educational non-profit. Jean is a licensed attorney with the State Bar of California, currently on inactive status. She works with individuals and groups looking for a more efficient, productive and meaningful way to engage with others in business, government, community and political work. Her environmental and land-use practice centered on working with citizen groups and government officials led her to learn Dialogue skills and practices. She has offered trainings and facilitation services to business leaders, government leaders, faith leaders, youth, social activists and anyone interested in engaging in more meaningful dialogue. 

With a group of Dialogue practitioners, Jean created the DynamicDialogue program and is offering this program to organizations and individuals seeking to improve the ways they interact with others to better meet the complex needs of our constantly changing world. Jean has been a trainer and facilitator in the Contemplative Dialogue/Active Engagement/Mindful Leadership work for more than a decade. Jean was part of an international team working with the Government of Albert in Canada from 2008-2015. In 2015 she was part of a team training professional students to work in cross-cultural, multi-discipline projects through the University of California. She spends most of her time in California working with individuals and groups for local, regional and statewide government, non-profit and for-profit businesses and faith based communities.

Sandra Lommasson, Faculty, Facilitator, and Mentor for DynamicDialogue®

Sandra's passion is creating processes and pathways for awakening to the depth dimension of life in the everyday moments where we are each met by "something more." Since 1996 she has been involved in the formation of spiritual directors and leaders of religious and public organizations. Sandra also serves as a retreat leader and DynamicDialogue facilitator and mentor. She has published several articles on spiritual direction and served on the Council of Spiritual Directors International from 1999-2005. She is mother to two grown children and delights in five (soon to be six) very special grandchildren. She was formed as a spiritual director and then as a supervisor through Mercy Center, Burlingame.

Debbie Baker, Dialogue Facilitator, Dialogue Mentor 

Debbie is a graduate of the 2-year dialogue practicum and a certified DynamicDialogue mentor. She co-facilitates training to introduce individuals to the practice of DynamicDialogue; to share tools that help them become aware of their quality of presence and engagement, and to realize the power of living compassionately; mindfully honoring how we are all truly interdependent. Since 2013, she has assisted individuals, businesses, and governmental groups to help create safe learning cultures where every person is recognized as having inherent worth and value. 

Mary Richardson, Dialogue Facilitator, Dialogue Mentor 

Mary is a certified DynamicDialogue Facilitator and Mentor and holds a Masters in Psychology/Organization Development from Sonoma State University. She has been consulting in the field for over 25 years. Mary works with congregations, non-profit organizations, corporate and government teams using the Dialogue practice to deepen leadership and communication tools. Mary enjoys the transformation that happens, individually and in a group, when the practice of dialogue changes the way people communicate along with changing their mental models of how groups work effectively. She finds this transformation supports, develops and sustains organizations, contributing to their health and agility.

Roseanne Lopez, Dialogue Facilitator, Dialogue Mentor

Roseanne is a Certified Management Consultant with more than 30 years’ experience working for, or providing specialized consulting to, a broad array of clients. She assists clients who have a desire to create change and improve their operations through their strategy, technology, and people. She understands how organizations work from strategy to operations.  She has been at the executive level for technology and audit firms and leading consulting practices, and was formerly a Partner with Deloitte & Touche where she was responsible for leading a West Coast consulting practice.

Roseanne completed the two-year dialogue practicum and is a certified DynamicDialogue mentor. Roseanne works with clients and teams to review business processes, identifying areas for improvement. She understands the need to work with clients to facilitate approaches and solutions that can work with their organizational culture, the people on their staff and the clients/customers they serve. Her clients have included government, utilities, not-for-profit, education, and tribal organizations, as well as private sector entities.  

Talib Huff, Dialogue Facilitator, Dialogue Mentor

Talib has been active in educating children and adults since 1989. In addition to teaching in the classroom, he has spoken at conferences on education, facilitated both small and large groups in Dialogue practices and lead Reflective Art experiences for pastoral groups, health related organization, and the general public. He has developed and presented at retreats for individuals, couples, and families. Talib is a certified presenter and mentor in the DynamicDialogue program.

John C. Johnson, Dialogue Mentor

Native to Northern California where he obtained higher education, accumulated over 25 years of professional experience and successfully raised three sons with his wife, John has held membership on nine nonprofit Boards of Directors. With extensive education, training and certifications in organizational psychology, social work and leadership, John is eager to collaborate with Bread of Life to bring DynamicDialogue tools to the workplace. In particular, John focuses on organizations in healthcare and social services.

John welcomes referrals through Bread of Life.