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Vision

The vision of Souls and Hearts is to help us embrace and embody love in all our being – for us to become love – so that we can reflect that love back to God, our neighbors, and ourselves
wholeheartedly.

Go in-depth with Dr. Peter in this presentation: https://vimeo.com/997262351/0083c93ac4

Mission

The mission of Souls and Hearts is:

  1. to shore up our natural, human foundations for love together in community;
  2. to grow in our human formation by discovering and embracing our identities as beloved little sons and daughters of God our Father and Mary our Mother, our spiritual parents, our primary parents;
  3. by overcoming our natural impediments to embracing love and to flourishing and resilience in loving God, our neighbors, and ourselves fully, in an integrated and ordered way;
  4. Through an understanding of the multiplicity and unity of ourselves in our parts and systems using the best of religious and secular human formation resources and
  5. In complete fidelity with the teachings and the wisdom of the Catholic Church and a Catholic understanding of the human person.

Go in-depth with Dr. Peter in this presentation: https://vimeo.com/997262231/872203e447

Values

Breakdown of six core business values for Souls and Hearts:

  1. WWYHMTD — “What would you have me to do, Lord?”
    1. Each of us discerning and executing the will of God in love and for love, like Saul in Acts 9:6
    2. Each of us humble, keenly aware of and accepting our limitations and blind spots, recognizing that it is Christ’s within us that makes our apostolic work efficacious
    3. Each of us willing to pivot and change direction flexibly in response to divine touches, like Saul
    4. Absolute fidelity to the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church
  2. Cherish every part in our people
    1.  Each of us starts by attuning to his or her own parts in ordered self-love — passionate about our own individual human formation work
    2. We challenge ourselves and each other on our growing edges with feedback and corrections in love.
    3. Each of us maintains a parts and systems mindset in accompanying each other and our members on our human formation pilgrimage
  3. Commit and deliver
    1. Each of us stays laser-focused on our own responsibilities, avoiding distractions and rabbit holes
    2. Each of us focuses on staying unblended in work and relationships — taking deliberate pauses each day to recollect ourselves
    3. Each of us keeps an 80/20 mindset, aware of how perfectionism chasing after bright, shiny objects can hinder good work.
  4. Prepare the way for our members’ human formation
    1. Each of us focuses tightly on human formation and some intellectual formation, not spiritual formation or case management, staying in our lane
    2. We facilitate, provide resources, empower, and catalyze, but we don’t try to do our members’ human formation work for them — that’s a trap.
  5. Dream big
    1. Each of us keeps a “big picture” focus on eternity, on becoming Love, with God’s Providence sustaining us
    2. Each of us desires to help millions, billions, trillions of souls toward a deep, personal intimacy with the Persons of the Trinity and Mother Mary
    3. We value innovation, risk-taking, and a “can-do” attitude and are willing to “walk on the water” and sink and rise again.
  6. Nurture Community
    1. Souls and Hearts is a community of interrelated and nested systems
    2. Each of us recognizes how we are part of larger systems in Souls and Hearts and how our roles, actions, our whole being impacts the entire Souls and Hearts Community
    3. Thus, we consider how to foster health and love in our community, how each can contribute to healthier systems, with flexibility and integration to counter potential unhealthy rigidity and chaos.

Go in-depth with Dr. Peter in this presentation: https://vimeo.com/997262466/194d885fd8

The Souls and Hearts Team

  • Dr. Peter Malinoski

    I am Peter Malinoski, Ph.D., president and co-founder of Souls and Hearts, and a clinical psychologist for the past 23 years in private practice in Indianapolis. I specialize in resolving problems and healing wounds that bridge the natural and spiritual realms so that we can flourish in loving God, our neighbor, and ourselves. A particular emphasis on unconscious psychological factors that thwart one’s capacity to receive love from God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other people underlies my work. I also focus on the unconscious dynamics that get in the way of us loving God and each other. I’ve been particularly influenced by Carmelite spirituality, especially St. Teresa of Avila and St. Therese of Lisieux and also by St. Maximilian Kolbe. Within Souls and Hearts, I lead the Formation for Formator Community FFF) and create content for Resilient Catholics Community (RCC).  I also produce the Interior Integration for Catholics podcast and write semimonthly reflections bringing the best of human formation resources to Catholics worldwide.  I have been married for 28 years to my beloved wife Pam. We have seven children aged 11 to 26. I enjoy raising chickens, ducks, sheep, pigs, and dairy cows as well as vegetables and fruits on our five-acre, integrated farm.  I delight in Ultimate Frisbee and love to read.

  • Dr. Gerry Crete

    I am Gerry Crete, Ph.D., chief executive officer and co-founder of Souls and Hearts. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional counselor in private practice. My practice, Transfiguration Counseling, is based in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to marriage counseling, I specialize in the treatment of trauma and anxiety disorders. As an EMDR certified therapist I help my clients process past wounds and adapt to stress in new ways. My spiritual approach has been influenced especially by the writings and practices of St. Francis de Sales, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and St. Teresa of Avila. As a Byzantine Catholic, I have also been influenced by the Eastern Christian emphasis on the person as created in the image of God as well as the concepts of theosis (inner transformation into the likeness of God) and hesychasm (stillness before God). On a lighter note, I’m a lifetime science fiction/fantasy geek who enjoys old comic books and movies. I also love biking and hiking. I’ve been married 27 years and have three grown children.

  • Pam Malinoski

    I’m Pam Malinoski, and I support Souls and Hearts as integrator, helping pull together all aspects of the organization focused on a single vision. I also help with a wide variety of tasks throughout our growing organization, pitching in wherever I’m needed. I have a degree in journalism and have worked in public relations and corporate communications as well as a freelance writer. After about a dozen years as solely a homemaker, homeschooler, and homesteader, I jumped back into the freelance writing world in 2016. My favorite thing to say about being a mom of a large family is that “I’m never bored!” Children grow and change every day, and through the grace of God, I get to be part of their amazing lives. My favorite homesteading project is maple syruping in the late winter. It’s six weeks of hard work and then you’ve got a year’s supply of syrup. Since cold weather and snow mean more syrup, it’s a happy reason for February weather.

  • Marion Bean Moreland

    I am Marion Bean Moreland, Lead Navigator for the Resilient Catholic Community. I am a licensed Professional Counselor in West Virginia, and I am an Internal Family Systems Consultant. I have a private practice; Integrated Hearts and I am a Professor for the Spiritual Direction Certificate Program and Divine Mercy University. I am a Certified Clinical Traumatologist with a passion for helping after a disaster. I am Roman Catholic and a Tertiary in the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and have been influenced by Bl. Anna Marie Taigi, Bl. Elizabeth Canori Mora, St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. I have been married for 39 years, have three daughters and their families have brought us 9 grandchildren with one on the way. When I’m not spending time with family I love to dance, play games, work on home projects, and travel.

  • Bridget Adams

    I am Bridget Adams, an IFS Level 1 trained coach serving as a member care coordinator for the Resilient Catholics Community and a lead “PartsFinder Pro” writer and trainer for Souls and Hearts. A lifelong resident of the Puget Sound area of Washington state, I earned my communications degree at the University of Puget Sound as a member of the women’s soccer team. Australia, where I completed my graduate Diploma in Education at Queensland University and said “yes” when my husband Tim proposed on the banks of the Brisbane River, is my home-away-from-home.  In 1995 I transitioned from Catholic high school teacher to homeschooling mom and found great fulfillment and joy accompanying our three sons on many adventures, excursions, and projects. After a brief season as a foster family, we adopted two daughters who are currently homeschooled.  Married 33 years, Tim and I have been blessed by a growing number of in-laws and grandchildren and recently relocated from the foothills of the Cascade Mountains to the Black Hills of South Dakota. My blood type and life motto are the same — B positive.

  • David Saunders

    My name is David Saunders and I am truly thrilled to join the Souls and Hearts team.  Why?  Simply, I am experiencing how S&H’s various authentic Catholic communities and unparalleled Catholic human formation is freeing the active presence of God in me, daily.  Everyone who knows me sees the difference.  Don’t get me wrong, I am still a mess, but now I am His mess. My desire as a member care coordinator is to help you experience the internal freedom God is offering you. Professionally, I was in public schools for 30 years and for the past 6 years I was in various roles living discipleship within our diocese.  S&H human formation via IFS has also proven to be the missing ‘part’ in transforming our marriage of 36 years, our four children’s lives, and so much more … all while healing from various traumas, views, and addictions.

  • Patty Ellenberger

    I am Patty Ellenberger, Office Manager for Souls and Hearts. I have a degree in accounting and worked as a public and cost accountant before opting to stay at home to raise our five children. I have been home schooling for the past 24 years, during which I have been active volunteering for my kids’ school co-ops and activities, as well as parish ministries. With our youngest graduating, I am excited that the next chapter of my life includes working with the Souls and Hearts team. I enjoy trying new recipes, reading, biking with my husband, Jeff, and spending time with our family.

  • Dr. Peter Martin

    I am Peter Martin, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and training director at a Catholic faith-integrated doctoral internship program based in Lincoln, Nebraska. I head the psychological and faith-integrated formation of our interns, mental health professionals and other clinical staff. I am indebted to the writings and exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and I have become increasingly influenced by Carmelite spirituality. I am also a consultant for the human formation program of a religious order. I have developed a task for assessing psychospiritual experiences called the Holy Trinity & Mary Drawings (HTMD) and am co-leading a multi-site psychospiritual vocational assessment project to evaluate the functioning of diocesan and men’s and women’s religious life candidates. I have a deep interest in understanding and healing psychological obstacles to authentic spiritual encounters and relationships, understanding the psychology of belief and unbelief, and authentic religious conversion. I have been married for over a decade and the Lord has blessed my wife, Larissa, and me with 3 rambunctious children who love to explore our acreage that is garnished with 50+ chickens, cattle, cats and a dog. On a personal level, I probably could have been diagnosed as a basketball junkie in my younger days, I love all things G.K. Chesterton and am a Thomist at heart. I am honored to be with the Interior Therapist Community as a Trainer and Consultant within Souls & Hearts.

  • Adam Gardiner

    I am Adam Gardiner, and I work behind the scenes in the intake process here at Souls and Hearts. My wife and I have been married for 26 years and have five daughters. After a reasonably successful entrepreneurial career, we have retired and are both enrolled in Divine Mercy University’s Masters in Counseling program, pursuing the next chapter of our calling to serve. I was received into the Catholic Church at Thomas Aquinas College, graduated in 1996, and began the Christian phase of my life-long journey to find healing, meaning and purpose. This quest has led me to Internal Family Systems, and I have found a home at Souls and Hearts to support my practice of authentically Catholic IFS and to help others along this path.

  • Michelle Gardiner

    I am Michelle Gardiner and am active in Souls in Hearts as both a member of the Resilient Catholics Community and as a writer of PartsFinder Pro reports. I graduated from Thomas Aquinas College, where I was blessed to meet my husband, Adam, with whom I have had 5 beautiful girls. Honored to homeschool and be a stay-at-home mom for the last 26 years, I am now pursuing a Master’s in Counseling at Divine Mercy University, along with my husband. I have a passion for learning and connecting seemingly disparate truths into novel theories. My hobbies include regenerative gardening, foraging, natural health, Eastern Catholicism and tennis.

  • Severin Kempf

    My name is Severin Kempf, and I serve Souls and Hearts with backend IT support through my business, Indy Engineering Solutions. A mechanical engineer by training, I have spent the last 16
 years in a mix of systems administration and custom programming services. My primary interest is programming methods development, especially in LISP.

    My beautiful wife, Amy, and I have an admittedly large and still growing family. We work together on a one-acre homestead where we make syrup in the spring, raise poultry and sheep in the summer, and
 harvest a lot of fruits and vegetables in the fall. I greatly enjoy understanding how things work and frequently fix things as a hobby.

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