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Create a better future — for yourself, your society, your world! The choices you make help create that future every day. Interweave can help you make wiser, healthier, more practical and caring choices about the quality of life you have and help foster in the world. For 30 years we’ve been a pioneer in presenting to people some of the crucial ways we need to choose hope for self, society and world.
About Interweave
Interweave courses and events give you the practical skills
and information you need for wholistic living.
Interweave is a community learning center teaching skills for wholistic living that strengthen wellness, deepen spirituality and promote the common good. We equip people for the challenges of this critical turning-point in the world’s history, so full of the loss and recovery of soul, the clash and convergence of religions, and the crisis and opportunity of environmental change.
YOU CAN LEARN how:
To listen to the soul, our deepest wisdom, speaking through thought and feeling, intuition and imagination, guiding us to creative solutions and practical actions.
To seek wellness for self and society through multi-disciplinary approaches, rather than polarized, one-way-only solutions, whether medically, politically, or intellectually.
To see nature as a living community, not just “the environment” — a community of which humanity is an inseparable part, thriving or diminishing along with the rest.
To respect this multi-cultural, multi-religious world, with openness to truth from any source, and deep rooting in our own faith and traditions.
Please note: We offer education, not treatment. A regional, inter-religious, community-based membership organization chartered in 1980, Interweave is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation.
Interweave Staff
Janet M. Haag, Executive Director
Victoria Whitfield, Office Administrator
Sarah Sangree, Publications Consultant
Adjunct Staff
Kelly Jones, Bookkeeper
Robert Corin Morris, Founder
Suzanne Morris, Administrative Consultant
Puran Lucas Perez, Webmaster
The Interweave Center Board of Directors 2012-13
Geri Livengood, President
Judi Ostberg, Vice-President
Charlie Rall, Treasurer
Jim Paul, Secretary
Lisa Brown
Asha Bernard
Sallie Glomb
Denison D. Harrield, Jr.
Lorri Lizza
Alexander H. MacDonnell
Susan Abbott Maitner
Janet Maulbeck
Alison Mazie
Judi Ostberg
Jim Paul
James Reho
Sr. Barbara Jean Packer, C.S.J.B.
Christie Zipfel
Janet M. Haag, Executive Director
Janet Haag is Interweave's second Executive Director, having assumed her duties in April 2012. Haag has a longtime involvement in interfaith (work, and holds Masters degrees in Psychology and Formative Spirituality. She is the former Executive Director of Fellowship in Prayer in Princeton, NJ. She has also held positions of leadership in human services, higher education and non-profit management. Before coming to Fellowship in Prayer in 2006, Haag spent 11 years with Choice Services International, a multi-state, non-profit child welfare agency. A teacher and workshop leader, she is a trained spiritual director.
A Roman Catholic by birth and a former Vincentian Sister of Charity, Haag embraces a spirituality “that is broader and more all-encompassing than the creeds embraced by my own religious tradition.” She has a keen interest in interfaith dialogue and cooperation, and believes that one of the greatest challenges we face today is “reaching the religious and the a-religious in ways that are faithful to the depth and breadth of the human spirit and its capacity for relationship with the Divine.”
She looks forward to working to foster Interweave’s continued growth and expand its reach. “More than ever, people are longing for health and wholeness, spiritual meaning and connectedness. I consider it a privilege and a joy to be called to leadership at Interweave at this particular moment in time."
Robert Corin Morris, Founder
Robert Corin Morris, Founder, continues his relationship with Interweave as a faculty member. Bob started The Interweave Center in 1980 as an offshoot of his ministry at Calvary Church in Summit, NJ in the 1970s as a meeting place for people interested in exploring cutting edge ideas and practices to strengthen wellness, deepen spirituality, and promote the common good. A meditation and contemplative prayer teacher, trained spiritual director, conference and retreat leader, he is available for programs in congregations and other venues. He is the author of three books: Wresting with Grace: A Spirituality for the Rough Edges of Daily Life; Suffering and the Courage of God; Provocative Grace: The Challenge in Jesus' Words. He blogs regularly at provocativeponderings.blogspot.com
Victoria Whitfield, Office Administrator
Victoria Whitfield, Office Administrator, is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she tutored as a writing coach in the English Department from 2006-2011. A certified Reiki healer, she is interested in holistic modes of therapy and integrating them with spiritual practice. Currently, she provides Reiki healing in Westfield, NJ at Evolve Restorative Therapy, and leads a weekly group meditation circle Monday evenings. In her free time, she practices qigong, writes poetry, and sings.