Communities of Practice
Kya Johnson
Kya is a faith-driven therapist who is passionate about helping others grow emotionally and spiritually. As a young Black woman, she values creating safe, welcoming, holistically healing spaces rooted in compassion and hope. She also teaches liturgical dance, honoring God through movement and service to her community.
Gloria F. Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCPP
Gloria Donnelly is a longstanding proponent of self-care and resilience building strategies beginning with her book, Coping with Stress: RN’s Survival Sourcebook Medical Economics Press, 1983 and most recently, with Dr. R. Wicks, Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice, Oxford University Press, 2021. As the recently retired Editor in Chief of the refereed […]
Robert Wicks, PsyD
Dr. Robert Wicks has spoken on his major areas of expertise—resilience, self-care, and the prevention of secondary stress (the pressures encountered in reaching out to others)—on Capitol Hill to Members of Congress and their Chiefs of Staff, led a course in resilience in Beirut for relief workers brought there from Aleppo, Syria, spoken at Johns […]
Ann Gibbons Phalen, PhD, CRNP, NNP
Ann Gibbons Phalen, PhD, CRNP, NNP, Dean of Cranaleith's Community of Practice for Healthcare, has practiced nursing for over forty-five years. Throughout her nursing career, Dr. Phalen has served as a bedside nurse, clinical specialist, nurse practitioner, nurse educator and researcher. Her area of expertise is neonatal nursing. Dr. Phalen has held multiple administrative roles […]
Mary Jo Pierantozzi
Mary Jo Pierantozzi, MS, was an Assistant Professor and the Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Education until she retired from Gwynedd Mercy University in May 2023. She has been in the field of Education for more than fifty-five years, twenty-one of them full-time at GMercyU. In May 2023, Mary Jo was named Professor Emerita and also […]
Bernadette Rudolph
Bernadette Rudolph, MA, MS is Director of Facilitation and Strategic Partnerships at Cranaleith. She has earned degrees in the liberal arts (BA, St. John’s College, Annapolis), religion and religious education (MA, Catholic University, Washington DC) and educational leadership (MS, Marywood University, Scranton), as well as a certificate in spiritual direction (Cranaleith Spiritual Center, Philadelphia). Bernadette […]
Spiritual Direction Interest, Individual Virtual Directed Retreat, Solitude Day (self-catered), Claiming Our Joy: Isaiah Prepares Us for Christmas - on demand, Intimacy and Inspiration in the Psalms - on demand, Individual Directed Retreat (self-catered), Stations of the Cross for Our Times (Virtual), One Foot in front of the Other: Spiritual Walking Practices, Stations of the Cross for Our Times, Stations of the Cross for Our Times,