About the Facilitators
Cookie Anderson
Cookie Anderson has been folding peace cranes for 50 years. She has a goal of making 100,000 peace cranes, or 100 bunches of 1,000 paper cranes each. To date, Cookie has completed 94 bunches and recently gifted Siena Retreat Center with 1,000 peace cranes. Cookie is active in the Good Earth Church of the Divine in East Troy, Wisconsin.
Vicky Curtiss
Vicky Curtiss is the Program Director for Siena Retreat Center, which includes her leading retreats and offering spiritual guidance. She has an M. Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago and served the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for forty years as an ordained clergy in the roles of pastor, spiritual director, and presbytery executive. She has also been the director of three faith-based non-profit organizations. Vicky has been trained as a spiritual director, SoulCollage® facilitator, labyrinth facilitator, and grief support companion, and grief coach. Vicky also been a consultant to many organizations for envisioning and discernment which she included in a booklet she authored called "Guidelines for Communal Discernment." Vicky loves reading, theater, quilting, being in nature, and engaging in anti-racism work.