Merrill Gruver
- she/her
- merrill.gruver@gmail.com
- Merrill brings her background as a priestess of the divine feminine, ritualist, and theater artist to her spiritual guidance. She believes our creativity, emotions, and body wisdom are powerful resources for spiritual life. Merrill works with individuals who are curious about how they might deepen their connection to the divine through embodiment practices and ritual. She also offers traditional spiritual guidance; her presence, space-holding, and deep listening is rooted in 35 years of devotional practice as a Bhakti yogi. Merrill designs and leads rituals and community ceremonies, and supports people in the creation of their own personal rituals.
- Spiritual Director
- Rituals (Weddings, Memorials, Other), In-Person, Virtual Meetings/Zoom
- Redwood City, CA, 94061
Rev. Shannon Pullen
- she/her
- shannon.pullen@gmail.com
- Rev. Shannon Horvath Pullen is an ordained interfaith minister, chaplain, and ritualist. She is an experienced teacher and facilitator, with a background in mental health education, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention, particularly with veterans and their families. She enjoys writing, research, and curriculum development, using her clinical and lived experience in service to others. Shannon is interested in the complex interplay of all the domains of our lives, especially the intersection of spirituality and mental health, and creating just and sustainable systems of care that address the whole person. She accompanies people in crisis as they deal with grief and loss and brings people around the table to have conversations about living and dying. She graduated with her Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry in May 2023 and completed an Interfaith Chaplain Residency at the Oregon State Hospital in 2024. She currently serves as an interfaith hospice chaplain with Providence Hospice in Portland, Oregon and facilitates military culture awareness and suicide prevention training with Lines for Life. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-pullen-749221b1/
- Interfaith Clergy
- Grief, Rituals (Weddings, Memorials, Other)
- 97219
Rev. Carol Dolezal
- she/her/hers
- carol.s.dolezal@gmail.com
- www.creativecarolcelebrant.com
- Interfaith Clergy
- Rituals (Weddings, Memorials, Other)
- 94501
Rev. Russell Button
- russ@russbutton.com
- I do sacred ceremonies such as beach weddings, marriage vow renewals on Hawaiʻi Island, as well as memorial services and home hospice visitations. I often include a hoʻokupu gratitude ritual in the ceremonies I do. I make an effort to teach Hawaiian values and to honor the spirit of Aloha.
- Interfaith Clergy
- Rituals (Weddings, Memorials, Other)
- 96778
Rev. Kacey Carmichael
- she/her
- 2kaceycarmichael@gmail.com
- Rev. Kacey Carmichael, MA, MEd sees the Great Mystery, the Sacred Universe, wondrously unfolding in and as YOU. Along with a kind heart I bring a sense of humor, non-judgment, expansive awareness, creative engagement, gratitude and trust. I also bring decades of work with individuals and groups integrating expressive arts therapies, embodied/somatic approaches, contemplative rituals and practices, and the cosmology that modern science and indigenous wisdom have provided of ourselves embedded in the web of this 4.5 billion year evolving Earth Community and 14 billion year brilliant beautiful unfolding universe. From this felt experience of deep belonging we make mutually enhancing choices of loving wisdom for ourselves, our beloved planet, and all beings. I bring the soulful depths of personal experience with a disabled child, the loss of a partner, career changes, and aging parents. I also bring the benefits of rigorous education and training at Yale (BA in Biopsychosocial Health), Harvard (Masters in Counseling & Consulting Psychology), Lesley (Masters in Expressive Arts Therapies), and The Chaplaincy Institute (ordained Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Director.) I have a private practice as well as serving a UCC church and on faculty of the Advanced Deeptime Leadership & Wellbeing Program. I love poetry; Authentic Movement; the mystical insights and practices of the many traditions of the world; and communing with plants, animals, sea, stones … the whole earth community. I offer (in-person and online) memorials/weddings/blessings; spiritual companioning and counseling; individual and group practices, courses and retreats.
- Interfaith Clergy, Spiritual Director
- Individual, One-on-One Spiritual Direction, Rituals (Weddings, Memorials, Other)
- 94960