"There is in all things... a hidden wholeness." ~Thomas Merton
Meet PCSF’s leaders here. To learn more about PCSF’s spiritual directors, scroll down the page or click here.
Rod Dugliss
Board Member
After 30 years, Rod recently retired as the Dean of the Episcopal School for Deacons, a working ground for the nexus of prayer and praxis, contemplation and action. He is a Shalem trained spiritual director, a member of the Shalem Society for Contemplative Leadership, and on the regional staff of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. He co-leads Pacific Center’s annual summer silent retreat on Buddhist and Christian meditation practices.
Jane Ferguson Flout
Board member
Jane is Director of Strategic and Community Partnerships at Catholic Charities. She is a commissioned presenter of Centering Prayer by Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. and has written about contemplative prayer particularly as it relates a person’s health and life. She is interested in the intersection of contemplative practices and social justice as they contribute to inner peace and outer social harmony. Jane received her Doctor of Ministry from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and her Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Richard Flout
board member
Richard is a psychotherapist in private practice who has had a lifelong interest for the integration of spirituality and the psychological healing process. His experience includes leadership for church liturgy, retreats, contemplative prayer and meditation groups and a daily practice of Centering prayer. For many years he has been an oblate with the Camaldolese Benedictine monks at the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. He is also an associate at the Interfaith Counseling Center in San Anselmo, CA.
Andrew K. Lee
web designer and spiritual director
Andrew is a Ph.D. student at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where he studies medieval mysticism and spirituality, Christian history, and comparative religion. At Graduate Theological Union and at San Francisco Theological Seminary, he has taught the academic study of mysticism as well as practical courses on contemplative spirituality. Blending teaching from the mystics with contemplative practices, he has created and led meditations and retreats for San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Marin Interfaith Council, the Episcopal School for Deacons, and the Episcopal Diocese of California.
Kathryn Lee
board member and spiritual director
Kathryn is passionate about sharing contemplative practices and helping cultivate new contemplative lay leaders as a lay leader herself in the Episcopal Church. She explores and shares contemplative practices through restorative circle practices, chant, and exploring art as a contemplative practice, especially knitting and crochet. She serves as a retreat leader and a beginning spiritual director. At Christ Episcopal Church, she leads the prayer shawl ministry, which makes knitted and crocheted shawls as physical expressions, and also provides spiritual formation workshops.
Kevin Omi
Board member and spiritual director
Kevin Omi is a spiritual director who helps directees discover themselves in God and to be anchored in what Thich Naht Hanh describes as the “present moment, wonderful moment.” He leads retreats and gatherings using both Christian and Buddhist practices for the Pacific Center for Spiritual Formation. He is a graduate of and peer group leader with Shalem’s Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups and Retreats program; and member of the Shalem Society. He has served three congregations as a United Church of Christ pastor and was previously a co-chair of a Committee on Ministry.