Faculty & Staff

Susan Alexander

Susan Alexander, RN, MAPM, is a spiritual director and an educator at Seton Cove and sites throughout the Seton Network. She holds a degree in business management from Concordia University and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry from Seminary of the Southwest. As a registered nurse since 1976, she has worked in cardiac care, intensive care, and surgery.

Hannah O'Donoghue CCVI, RN, MS

HANNAH O’DONOGHUE, CCVI, RN, MS, is a spiritual director and former health care executive who focuses her ministry on holistic approaches to healing. She received preparation in spiritual direction at St. Thomas Theological Seminary in Denver, CO, and energy based therapies in Bethesda, MD.

Scott Quinn M.Div.

SCOTT QUINN, MDiv., MA, is an educator and spiritual director at Seton Cove. He served for five years as an assistant pastor at a Lutheran church in the Dallas area after graduating from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri with a Masters of Divinity. Scott also worked for several years in the corporate training and organizational development field. He completed his Masters of Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica.

Patricia Speier D.Min.

Patricia Speier, DMin, is Executive Director of the Seton Cove. She is a spiritual director, teacher, and retreat facilitator who specializes in the use of literature and writing for spiritual growth and ethical development. She is passionate about the connection between Spirituality and Leadership and has developed a year long intensive for leaders in all fields ( business, medicine, law, religion, non-profit) which is now in its sixth year. Speier is a 2008 DMin graduate of Perkins School of Theology and a graduate of the Episcopal Theological Seminary. She has studied spirituality at the Pecos Benedictine Monastery in New Mexico and Integral Spirituality with Ken Wilbur. She has also practiced Big Mind work with Genpo Merzel Roshi.

Adjunct Faculty

Hamilton Beazley Ph.D.Hamilton Beazley, PhD, is Scholar-in-residence at St. Edward’s University and former Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. He is the author of seven books including No Regrets: A Ten-Step Program for Living in the Present and Leaving the Past Behind. Dr. Beazley has appeared on “Oprah Winfrey”, NBC, CNN, CNBC and a host of radio programs.

Bob Lively is a native Texan with deep roots in the piney woods of East Texas. He earned his baccalaureate degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas where he has been named a Distinguished Alumnus. He is an honor graduate of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. A Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Lively is the author of eleven books. In the past 17 years he has published over 400 columns in the Austin American-Statesman.

Flint Sparks Ph.D. has been in private practice as a psychotherapist in Austin since 1983. Through exploration of the interface between spirituality and psychology, he found a particularly deep resonance in Buddhist meditation, psychology and philosophy. In March of 2001, Sparks was ordained as a Zen Buddhist Priest. He now divides his time between his private practice and a growing Zen Center here in Austin.
www.flintsparks.com

Board Members

Sandi Aitken

Richard Alexander

Ginny Booton

Tom Caven, MD, Chair

James Davis

Veysel Demir

Patricia Elder, D.C.

Linda Fontaine

Jolynn Free

Katherine Jones

Faraz Khan, Treasurer

Sharon Lowe

Mary Jane Marks

Roberto Martinez

Geronimo Rodriguez

Marcia Silverberg, Secretary

David C. Smith

Patricia Speier, D.Min.

Liz Stewart

Nancy Sullivan, D.C.

Kerry Tate

Lee Thomson

Sharon Watkins