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Mino Capossela has been a board member for the HJF since 2009 He serves as a financial advisor and helps oversee fundraising.

Anna Marie Gaglia has been a member of a community of women religious for over 40 years dedicated to life-long learning and service. She has been involved in education and health care systems and served as a leader in her community for over 20 years. Currently, Anne Marie is Principal of a small private elementary school where her passion for youth, quality education, and the needs of families and students meet.

Patrick was first drawn to the Hero's Journey in 2004 when he just felt a need to go. Since then, the Journey as well as the people involved in it have profoundly affected many parts of his life. Each journey back to the mountain is a 'reset' button where he can reevaluate what he is doing in his life, and how it meshes with his true self.

Michael is the cofounder of The Hero's Journey Programs and the founder of MGM Psychological Associates. Michael designs, implements and oversees the Hero's Journey IntensivePrograms for Men and for Women, and is alsoa lead facilitator for the Men's Intensives and Weekend Immersions. He received his bachelor's degree in Psychology and his M.Ed. in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh.

John Sorensen has 40 plus years of corporate management, entrepreneurial, and aerospace engineering development experiences. In parallel, John has had increasing involvement and leadership positions with educational, environmental, humanitarian, and spiritual organizations leading to his position as Chairman of the Board of Hero's Journey Foundation. John was drawn to this work in his search for a group of men and women who combine their desire for personal growth in adventuresome outdoor settings with efforts that contribute to the betterment of our planet.

Josef was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela where he worked in his family’s business for over 20 years. After a personal health crisis, he knew his life had to change. He began a healing and awakening journey that lead him to train in Transformational Breath Work, Family Constellation Therapy, and at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing where he is a current faculty member and supervisor.

Jonathan Takeda Bessone is a facilitator for the Hero's Journey for Men Intensive. He is an Energy Therapist, Wellness Coach and Shamanic Practitioner. He began his career in the healing arts in 1991, apprenticing in breathwork and firewalking with Michael Big Bear of Sedona, Arizona. He taught over a period of 10 years at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, in both Miami and Japan.

Anna Noack Brown walks her path daily in that exquisite balance point between the divine and the common place. She brings this experience to life in all she does within the work of the Hero’s Journey Foundation.

Thomas has been involved in Hero's Journey work for the past six years. He is a gifted father, mentor, friend, musician, chef and a student of life. He lives in Pittsburgh where he teaches music to singers, actors conductors, and theater technicians at Carnegie Mellon University. His deep calling is to discover genuine manhood and unbridled masculinity in himself and to help other men and women to discover their unique ability to experience their own path in a vital way.

Peter is a lead facilitator for the hero's journey program. Having been involved in men's work for the past fifteen years Peter brings a sense of his own unique masculine identity to the program as well as a passion for assisting other men on the journey of personal discovery to strengthen and understand their own divine masculine.

Anna Marie Gaglia has been a member of a community of women religious for over 40 years dedicated to life-long learning and service. She has been involved in education and health care systems and served as a leader in her community for over 20 years. Currently, Anne Marie is Principal of a small private elementary school where her passion for youth, quality education, and the needs of families and students meet.

Joseph Jastrab is the senior teacher and a lead facilitator for The Hero's Journey Foundation. The power of Joseph’s presence as a teacher and leader derives from his lifelong apprenticeship with the wisdom teachings of the earth. His numerous solitary excursions into the wilderness have provided him ample experience in wilderness survival and exploration of the wild and natural terrain of the human heart and spirit.

Michael Mervosh is the co-founder of The Hero's Journey Foundation and the founder of MGM Psychological Associates. Michael designs, implements and oversees the Hero's Journey Intensives for Men and for Women, and is also a lead facilitator for the Men's Intensives and Weekend Immersions. He received his bachelor's degree in Psychology and his M.Ed. in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh.

Kate Pernice is an energy healer, teacher, & body-centered process facilitator. She brings her passion for sharing the profound awakening that occurs when we open to the healing journey to her work. Her studies in allopathic & botanical medicine, shamanic healing, yoga, movement, & meditation have taken her into the worlds of both medical and spiritual healing.

Chris Royer is a facilitator with the Young Men's Journey. He has spent his whole life exploring, and over 15 years working with young people in wilderness settings, and brings his training and experience together to The Hero's Journey Foundation.

My life's journey and work has been greatly influenced by the search for wholeness. The spiritual quest has led me to Asia in the early 80's, where I spent three years in Buddhist monasteries in Thailand and Burma and Yoga ashrams in India practicing and studying Buddhist meditation and yoga.

In 2008 Geoff retired from a 40 year career in Silicon Valley. He started as a mechanical and manufacturing engineer, moved through levels of management and then specialized in strategic planning, organization development and change management. He concluded his working career as an independent business consultant focusing on professional facilitation and strategic planning.