Therese Taylor-Stinson
Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd. Founding Managing Member
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Therese Taylor-Stinson is an Elder Advisor for the Mystic Soul Project. A retired Federal Senior Program Analyst, where she continues to serve as a mediator for Equal Employment Opportunity disputes across Government, Therese is also an ordained deacon and ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church(USA), where she served as 2016 Moderator for National Capital Presbytery (NCP), and now serves as Liaison for Race and Reconciliation on NCP’s Mission Coordinating Committee.. She is a graduate of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation and a member of the Shalem Society for Contemplative Leadership. As a spiritual director in private practice for well over a decade, Therese is a founder, incorporator, and the Managing Member of the Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd., and a long-time member of Spiritual Directors International (SDI), where she serves on the Editorial Review Panel for SDI's Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction. As an author and editor, her most notable works are as co-editor and contributor to the groundbreaking anthology Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color, and solo editor of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Stories of Contemplation and Justice. In 2018, Therese was awarded “Author of the Year” in the area of social awareness at the Indie Author Legacy Awards, and she was recognized as a “Collaborative Bridge Builder” by Grace and Race, Inc. Therese is the co-founder and organizer of Racial Awareness and Mindfulness: A Mini-Festival of the Arts, Awareness, Healing, and Justice, which presented its third year promoting racial awareness and healing in the DC-Baltimore corridor in October 2018, across generations and racial constructs. Therese is a speaker, workshop leader, Emotional Emancipation Circle facilitator, and leads contemplative practice in a variety of settings. She is married with one daughter and two granddaughters.