Jeanne O’Connell is wife to her husband, Kelly, and mother of 5 beautiful children. She enjoys hiking in the mountains, watching her children’s college athletic sports, cooking healthy & delicious dishes, gardening, facilitating workshops and retreats, traveling, and gathering with friends and family. She is a 20-year Pastoral Assistant at St. Matthew’s Catholic Parish, employed as Director of Marriage Ministries and Women’s Formation. She is a University of Minnesota-Crookston graduate, is also certified in JPII’s Theology of the Body Head and Heart Immersion from the Theology of the Body Institute, is a certified Matthew Kelly Dream Manager Coach, and is a certified AFPA Holistic Nutritionist. After a breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, Jeanne discovered how ancient forms of nutrition and healing merge with today’s nutritional science for optimal health and wellbeing primarily through the timeless teachings and wisdom of Hildegard von Bingen, Saint and Doctor of the Church. By consolidating her pastoral experience and certifications, she is passionate about teaching St. Hildegard’s 7 strategic approaches to physical and spiritual vitality, wellbeing and wholeness.

Tina Wambeke has been a massage therapist in Montana for 21 years. She has also been an instructor for massage therapy students at the former Healthworks Institute as well as for adult education program students.  She is a Catholic convert, a member of a charismatic Catholic prayer group, and divides her parish life between Holy Family Catholic Church in Three Forks and the Butte Catholic Community North.  She and her husband Chuck became parents through adoption and have three adult children and three grandchildren.  Tina is passionate about sharing the benefits of touch therapy and loves to teach accessible self-care techniques that people can incorporate in their daily lives to enhance their well-being, wholeness and ability to live the life that Christ so dearly paid for us.  She is a former environmental chemist and lifelong student who has received training in medical meditation, breathwork, kinesiology, tai chi, movement therapies, lymphatic massage, acupressure techniques, energy balancing, visceral manipulation, craniosacral therapy, tapping, and other alternative health modalities.  However her best education was what she learned about herself and God through the journey of marriage and parenting adopted children.