Co-Founder, Spiritual Director, Facilitator, Coach

Samuel Rahberg is a spiritual director and retreat leader and co-founder of Wood & Water Retreats. He is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and author of Ice Break: A Collection of Poems (Aetos Publications, 2019) and Enduring Ministry: Toward a Lifetime of Christian Leadership (Liturgical Press, 2017). Sam is former Director of the Benedictine Center (St. Paul, MN) and holds a master’s degree in theology from Saint John’s University (Collegeville, MN). He enjoys fly fishing the streams of Southeast Minnesota in between projects on his family's tree farm and learning timber framing. Learn more at www.samuelrahberg.com.

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Co-Founder, Writer, Facilitator

Kiely Todd Roska is a writer and facilitator who is currently working on her memoir. Kiely is Co-Founder of Wood & Water Retreats and holds an M.A. in Religion and Theology (United Theological Seminary), as well as a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She has worked in faith-based nonprofit and congregational settings for over 20 years, most recently as Associate Director of the Benedictine Center (St. Paul, MN). Kiely loves to bike, knit, swim, dance, and bake bread. She also believes in trying new things as a spiritual practice. For example, she recently took voice lessons for the first time so she can sing with more gusto in the congregation at church, when she is alone in the car, and during spontaneous dance parties with her children. Learn more at www.kielytoddroska.com.

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Spiritual Director, Facilitator

Peter Watkins is a spiritual director and retreat leader. He holds a Master’s of Divinity degree from the University of St. Thomas/School of Divinity and supervises spiritual directors in training at Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality.

Peter was a high school theology teacher at Cretin-Derham Hall high school in St. Paul for almost 30 years., where he often led student justice trips to Guatemala and pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

Peter helps lead ministry discernment groups for the Episcopal Church in Minnesota, he is a life-long runner, and is active in his church as a Sunday school story teller and is trained in giving the Ignatian spiritual exercises.

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Writer, Facilitator

Victor Klimoski, Ph.D. is the former Director of Lifelong Learning at Saint John’s School of Theology lifelong teacher. He holds a doctorate in adult education from the University of Minnesota and works extensively as a group facilitator and project consultant. He is also author of a number of poetry collections, most recently most recently Edged with Light, Revisited, Gleanings (contributing editor), Margin Notes, and Lamentation for the Written Word.

Facilitator

Eily Marlow serves as the Program Associate for Vocation and Reflection in the Center for Civic Engagement at Macalester College. She enjoys working with people as they discover how their values and convictions inform their actions in the world. She understands vocational discernment as both a personal and communal activity and believes listening to and sharing life narratives to be transformational.

Spiritual Director, Facilitator

Rachel Twigg has never had a job title that easily fit on a business card. She’s a pilgrim who loves to explore new places and new ideas. She’s a priest, spiritual director, and retreat guide, as well as a teacher, preacher, and writer who is equally comfortable discussing spiritual disciplines, how to make the perfect cookie, or why she still dreams of a Buffy spinoff featuring Giles and Anya. She thinks nuns and monks are some of the coolest folks around and she loves hanging out in monasteries, including St Benedict’s Monastery were she is also an oblate. When she is not working, she can often be found drinking coffee, walking her dog, or doing both at the same time. Learn more at www.revracheltwigg.com.

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