Megan Sillito
Megan Sillito has inspired thousands of people to create meaningful, creative, and lucrative lives and businesses. She organically ignites people’s talents and genius and helps them see where these gifts can engage the world in a profitable way, doing it their way, based on their unique skill set! Using universal principles and her own magic, she playfully introduces you to your “own” map to successful creation and then catalyzes you to turn up the potency required to follow it.
She runs her own global transformation-based company. Her signature event Live Your Magic has been in 8 cities and 4 countries.
Her favorite pastime is having deep conversations with world changers. She has created hundreds of live and online programs on a wide range of topics, leadership, happiness, prosperity, creativity, organic workflow, and creating conscious business your way!
Chaplain Wes Wilde
Chaplain Wes Wilde is a health care chaplain at IMC, Murray. A graduate of the Theology program at Sewanee: The University of the South, he previously worked as a hospice chaplain for 13 years.
Prior to his move to chaplaincy, he worked at a California newspaper for 23 years in a variety of newsroom positions, concluding his career as an online editor.
Wes has been a student of theology for over 30 years seeking to understand the nature of God as understood by different religions. He then sought a deeper, more personal connection with the essence of God.
He is proud to call himself a 'freelance Christian' in that he is happy to accept that which brings grace and hope from all traditions and finds it easy to "let the rest go." He has attended Christ United Methodist Church in Holladay for about 15 years where he occasionally preaches, teaches adult and children Sunday school and is involved with the multi-faith homeless ministry of Family Promise.
Wes sees love as the singular purpose of our human lives and hopes to inspire others to make such a journey in their own way.
Carolyn erickson
Carolyn Erickson discovered Science of Mind around 1983 and it was a game changer for her. She jumped in with both feet, served as board president, and did practitioner training; she was also a Sunday speaker on a few occasions. She continues to reap the benefits of the Science of Mind philosophy.
Her bread-and-butter job has been court reporting. Doing the court transcripts, she was made aware of how much children in a divorce are affected. That concern led her to become a mediator.
She has volunteered with Step into the Future, a program for teenagers, Salt Lake County Probation and Parole in the DUI program, Valley Behavioral Health, and Youth at Risk program in Arizona. In 2018 she trained in Restorative Justice and worked with schools.
Carolyn also served for 35 years as President of Regional Reporting, a court reporting firm, has been a mediator for 20 years, working with the courts and private community and is a trained RTT Rapid Transformational Therapy hypnotherapist .
Her concern has always been teenagers and how to help them, including her own granddaughter. Suicide among teens - and now even younger - keeps rising. Carolyn’s feeling of urgency to help children know how they can remove self-destructive thoughts and replace them with thoughts that make them happy, positive and optimistic about themselves, their lives, and their uniqueness led her to create, with her daughter, a program to achieve those goals.
That program is called Simple 6 and Carolyn will share with us how we can utilize this simple, powerful experience to feel great, happy, and content with ourselves. Simple 6 is a life-changing thought process that helps remove self-defeating, hurtful thoughts and replace them with compliments, refreshing thoughts and new positive, optimistic attitudes.
Winter Solstice Sound bath with Labyrinth Walk
Theresa Martin, RScP
Theresa Martin was born in Dublin Ireland; she is mother of six and grandmother of seven. She has been a serious student of truth from childhood. As an adult she was introduced to many of the New Thought authors by friends and colleagues. In 1994 she and her husband immigrated to the United States, where two of their daughters had settled in Salt Lake City.
One day she saw a sign that read Church of Religious Science, she knew that Louise Hay, one of her favorite authors was attached to this group and had to go and find out about it.
That was the beginning of an amazing twenty-five-year journey of unfoldment in a philosophy that made perfect sense.
She became a member and took classes to become a Religious Science Practitioner. This has allowed her to grow and assist others on their journey to wholeness.
Rev. Keith Horwitz
Reverend Keith Horwitz is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director of Agape affiliate: Soul Center OC in Orange County, CA.
He is a Divine Energy Medicine Master Trainer and has been teaching classes in Mystical Energy Medicine, Meditation, and New Thought Ageless Wisdom internationally since 2003.
He hosts a live daily affirmative prayer and facilitates mindful meditation retreats in nature and online.
Lanna Cairns, RScP
For over thirty years, Lanna Cairns M.A. has been a student and teacher of spiritual practices in New Thought and Buddhist Communities throughout the country.
She has a Master’s Degree in Religious Studies and is a published author. (Organizing for Your Brain Type, Every Child Has a Thinking Style and A Mindful Life).
As a Licensed Spiritual Practitioner for The Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living she gives sermons, teaches classes and supports her community. Currently, she is in Ministerial School and will graduate in 2027.
A native of Canada, she currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband, two sons and two dogs, Hoodoo and Nina, a rescue dog from Romania.
She believes that the thoughts we have about who we think we are and what we can aspire to be, greatly influence one’s life and ultimately, create a world that can work for everyone.
Rev. Nicole Merges
Rev. Nicole Merges brings a light-hearted and relatable approach to teaching and embodying the spiritual principles and practices Science of Mind teaches. With a deep conviction that each individual possesses a unique gift to contribute to the world, she passionately guides others towards exploring and embracing a spiritual life.
As an Ordained CSL Minister and a holder of a Masters of Arts in Consciousness Studies, Rev. Nicole has been dedicated to her ministry since 2009. She has served many roles in the organization, including staff minister of the Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living, founding minister of a CSL Center, and co-founder of an online education ministry. Her expertise and experience have led her to serve Centers for Spiritual Living Home Office since 2014, where she currently holds the role of Director of Spiritual and Professional Development. In this capacity, she oversees Certificated and Practitioner Education, Professional Development, online education, and the Spiritual Living Circles program.
While Rev. Nicole devotes herself to Centers for Spiritual Living, she also cherishes her leisure time. You may find her exploring nature, foraging for mushrooms, or skiing down the slopes. She deeply cherishes time with family and friends, valuing quality time and connection.
Rev. Dr. Joan Steadman
Rev. Dr. Joan Steadman is a founding member of the Agape International Spiritual Center and of Agape Bay Area. She has been an ordained Agape and Centers for Spiritual Living minister since 1998. She has served as the Senior Minister of our beloved community since January 2019 after serving as the assistant minister.
In 2014, she reFIREd, releasing her position as Spiritual Leader at the Oakland Center for Spiritual Living where she served for fifteen years. Previous to that, she was an assistant minister at the Agape International Spiritual Center for two years and a licensed spiritual practitioner for thirteen years where she had a thriving practice.
As a founding member of Agape International, she served in many capacities, including the original Vision Core and the original Board of Trustees. She was the founder and director of One From The Heart, the pastoral care ministry. Under her leadership, the ministry grew and became one of the largest pastoral care ministries in the New Thought movement. While at Agape, she also facilitated accredited classes and many workshops centering in the mystical aspect of New Thought/Ageless Wisdom.
For many years, she has been on the faculty of both the Michael Beckwith School of Ministry and Holmes Institute, the CSL School of Ministry. She created curriculum for Practical Mysticism and Visioning and has taught innumerable classes since the late 1980’s. Rev. Joan has facilitated workshops and retreats nationwide and has been a sought-out speaker at many New Thought centers and conferences. Additionally, she has authored articles and meditations for various New Thought magazines, including Science of Mind magazine and Inner Visions.
She was inducted into the Martin Luther King Hall of Preachers at Morehouse College and was awarded the Gandhi Ikeda King Award for Peace and Unity in the Community. She received congressional recognition by Representative Barbara Lee in 2014, and in August of 2021, she was a recipient of the Walden Award for New Thought Wisdom.
Her education includes a BA from Immaculate Heart College and a teaching credential through UCLA. She became a licensed practitioner in 1086 and graduated from Ernest Holmes College, which was then the United Church of Religious Science ministerial school, in 1995.
Aa significant part of her spiritual growth was cultivated in the Immaculate Heart Community where she was a Roman Catholic nun for nine years.
Rev. Joan has two daughters and three granddaughters, all of whom continually teach her how to love unconditionally.
Rev. Myrna Hirst
Rev. Myrna Hirst discovered the Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living in 1998, became a practitioner in 2002, and an ordained minister in 2017. She has served in many capacities at the Salt Lake Center. After graduation she was the founding minister at the Layton Center for Spiritual Living, then returned to the Salt Lake Center in 2021,where she speaks occasionally, teaches classes, and is the Visioning Coordinator. Visioning is a process that connects us with the Higher Wisdom as we seek answers to life’s questions. The Visioning Core meets regularly to consider the Highest Vision for the Center and share this information with Leadership. Rev. Myrna has been centered in the Science of Mind philosophy for more than 25 years. The philosophy and its practice has changed her life, and the people at the Center are her family.
Sally Taggart
Sally Taggart is thrilled to be returning to her beloved Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living. Sally began her journey of personal improvement and transformation in her early twenties. She trained and partnered with her mentor, the late Bob Proctor in 2007, and began an active life-coaching and speaking career.
By 2014 she was experiencing massive changes in her spiritual as well as her daily life…she became widowed and also recognized that the religious faith she had embraced her entire life was no longer working for her.
Early in 2015 she walked into her first Sunday service at Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living and today she is an active member of New Vision Center for Spiritual Living in Scottsdale AZ. She is currently studying to become a licensed practitioner.
Her talks, seminars and workshops are entertaining and filled with inspiration as well as practical strategies and techniques that people can use to immediately start making positive changes in their lives. Sally is funny, upbeat, enthusiastic and real. She plans to ‘light it up’ when she speaks on December 1st and she’s really looking forward to y’alls hugs!
She became a best-selling author when her children’s book, ‘I Like Seeing Me,’ launched in September of 2024. Available on Amazon.
https://tinyurl.com/I-Like-Seeing-Me
She will have a limited number of copies available for purchase and will be doing a book signing after the service.
Sally and Craig, her present husband, enjoy family time, especially with their 18 amazing grandchildren, play-dates with friends, country western dancing, traveling and exploring the gorgeous Sonoran desert. They live in Mesa, Arizona.
Book description: I LIKE SEEING Me shares the story of a girl who made up a game she can play anytime, even when she is alone. “Rule one of my game is to seek and to find me. Rule two instructs that I treat myself kindly.” Throughout the book she finds her own image in a TV screen, a lake, a brass pot, a spoon, a mirror and several other places. Where else will she find her own reflection and how does she treat her own self with kindness?
“This book is a heartwarming and transformational children’s book. It beautifully conveys the importance of acknowledging and honoring oneself, inspiring young readers to embrace their inherent worth and individuality. I highly recommend this book to parents, caregivers and educators who are committed to nurturing the spiritual growth and well-being of young minds.”
Mary Morrissey,
Educator, Author, and Speaker
Rev. Skip Jennings
Rev. Skip Jennings is a dynamic spiritual leader, co-hosting the enlightening "Voices of Unity" podcast on MindBodySpirit.fm. He is also an accomplished author with a heartfelt mission to inspire positive transformation. Some of his inspiring books include "The Lotus Kitchen," "Spirit Explosion," and "The Little Book for Big Transformations” and his new book of essays will be available early 2024.
Formerly serving as the Spiritual Director for the Center for Spiritual Living in Fort Lauderdale, Rev. Skip brings a wealth of experience and wisdom to his work. He is a proud graduate of the esteemed Michael B. Beckwith School of Ministry, which has deeply influenced his spiritual journey.
As the visionary founder of Mind, Body, Spirit Solutions L.L.C., Rev. Skip has created a platform dedicated to holistic well-being and personal growth. His multifaceted expertise encompasses yoga instruction and energy healing, both of which he passionately shares with the world.
You can explore Rev. Skip's profound wisdom and guidance on his website, SkipJennings.com, and immerse yourself in transformative meditations through the Insight Timer Meditation App.
Rev. Skip's spiritual journey took a profound turn during a yoga class in 1996, leading him to realize his divine calling to teach this sacred practice. With over 500 hours of yoga and meditation training under his belt, hot yoga holds a special place in his heart.
In his counseling and coaching sessions, Rev. Skip follows his C.A.R.E.S. philosophy, which stands for Connection, Action, Remember, Empowerment, and Self-Love. Through these principles, he is dedicated to the profound mission of transforming the planet, one session at a time. Join him on this empowering journey of self-discovery and growth.
Rev. Ali Benjamin
Dr. Alison Benjamin is the founder and spiritual director of the Satya Center for Conscious Living in Ogden, Utah. She was ordained through the Emerson Theological Institute in 2010 and holds a Doctor of Divinity degree.
A dedicated member of the New Thought Media Network, Dr. Ali hosts two weekly programs: Realizing Wholeness and the Growing Edge Live podcast. Through these platforms, she engages in meaningful conversations with soul-centered individuals who channel their energy, creativity, and love into making a positive impact in the world.
In addition to her media work, Dr. Benjamin maintains a private counseling and coaching practice, where she empowers individuals on their journeys of self-discovery, healing, and personal transformation.