“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.” - Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love, 1992)

Jean Holsten is Co-Director of Bread of Life along with Sandra Lommasson. Her passion is fostering an organizational climate that frees individuals to engage one another with integrity and creativity. Jean’s background as an attorney led her to seek forms of engagement that bring people together. She works with international groups in the 2 year Practicum for leaders hosted by the Centre for Contemplative Dialogue. She also designs and facilitates ongoing processes for business, government, non-profit, faith-based and informal groups seeking more efficient and effective communication.  Some work involves one-to-one mentoring with practitioners of Contemplative Dialogue.  Jean is our primary contact for inquiries about this process.

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace." - Frederick Buechner

Sandra Lommasson is the founder and co-executive director of Bread of Life and a spiritual director. Her passion is creating processes and pathways for the formation of spiritual directors and leaders of religious and public organizations. Sandra also serves as a retreat leader and Contemplative Dialogue facilitator and mentor. She blogs regularly through www.quadratos.com on the 4-fold pattern of transformation in the gospel and in life. She has published several articles on spiritual direction and served on the Council of Spiritual Directors International from 1999-2005. She is mother to two grown children and delights in five (soon to be six) very special grandchildren. She was formed as a spiritual director and then as a supervisor through Mercy Center, Burlingame.