Margot Halstead, MCC, PMP, MBAMargot Halstead, MCC, PMP, MBA
Author: Owning Your IT. Providing Leadership Conference facilitation and targeted training to level up your employees interpersonal communication skills. Author: Owning Your IT. Providing Leadership Conference facilitation and targeted training to level up your employees interpersonal communication skills.
"Alexandra and I worked together on a volunteer project within ICF. First, for others considering hiring her, it is a pleasure working with Alexandra as her energy is calm, knowledge bountiful, and demeanor is consistent and supportive. Second, her breadth and depth of knowledge supports her ability to intertwine elements of a project or conversation and inspire creativity in others. She is an inspirational, positive, unique, and creative partner.Alexandra and I worked together on a volunteer project within ICF. First, for others considering hiring her, it is a pleasure working with Alexandra as her energy is calm, knowledge bountiful, and demeanor is consistent and supportive. Second, her breadth and depth of knowledge supports her ability to intertwine elements of a project or conversation and inspire creativity in others. She is an inspirational, positive, unique, and creative partner."
Rev. Dr. Joan Prentice
Executive Director, Faith-Based Ministry | Pastoral Care | Contemplative Healing Retreats | Leadership TrainingExecutive Director, Faith-Based Ministry | Pastoral Care | Contemplative Healing Retreats | Leadership Training
"I’m a non-denominational Christian pastor, Founder and Executive Director of the Ephesus Project. I wholeheartedly recommend Alexandra as a Gestalt Soul Care mentor. I have personally experienced her careful, compassionate, and skillful mentoring and coaching. Alexandra has a beautifully discerning spirit, and her ability to listen deeply and guide with both wisdom and grace makes her work powerfully effective. Her unique combination of intuitive wisdom, professional skill, and genuine care for the soul creates a space where real healing and transformation can take place. I am truly grateful for the impact she has had on my life and encourage anyone seeking soul-deep renewal to connect with her.Rev. Dr. Joan Prentice. I’m a non-denominational Christian pastor, Founder and Executive Director of the Ephesus Project. I wholeheartedly recommend Alexandra as a Gestalt Soul Care mentor. I have personally experienced her careful, compassionate, and skillful mentoring and coaching. Alexandra has a beautifully discerning spirit, and her ability to listen deeply and guide with both wisdom and grace makes her work powerfully effective. Her unique combination of intuitive wisdom, professional skill, and genuine care for the soul creates a space where real healing and transformation can take place. I am truly grateful for the impact she has had on my life and encourage anyone seeking soul-deep renewal to connect with her."
Philip C Bergey
Phil Bergey is an executive leadership coach who builds on 30 years of diverse leadership experience in business and non-profit roles to form trusted relationships and deliver results with humor, flexibility, and depth. He has held a Professional Coach Certification from the International Coaching Federation since 2009 and is certified to use multiple psychometric assessments.
"Alexandra is a warm, witty and wise coach and practitioner. Her careful ear, holistic outlook, and insightful use of questions and metaphor make her an unusually effective communicator and guide. I strongly recommend her!Alexandra is a warm, witty and wise coach and practitioner. Her careful ear, holistic outlook, and insightful use of questions and metaphor make her an unusually effective communicator and guide. I strongly recommend her!"
Bishop Robert Ihloff
Bishop of Maryland, resigned
"I want to introduce you to a wonderful resource within Province III in the Diocese of Virginia, about which you may not know. Gestalt Pastoral Care out of Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna, VA, provides quality training in listening and providing Christian care led by a fine team of trainers under the direction of Alexandra MacCracken. I had the pleasure of getting to know Alexandra a few years ago when I was Assisting Bishop of Virginia. I was so impressed with her when we first met in the context of my visitation in Church of the Holy Comforter, Vienna, I signed up for a day-long group training session led by her. I was very moved by Alexandra's skills as a listener and pastoral care giver. Subsequently, I have referred a number of people to her for spiritual direction and/or for training in pastoral care.
My read of the church of the future is that pastoral care will become even more important in parish life in the coming days; with demands on clergy time becoming more complex, there is already a great need to have qualified lay pastoral caregivers involved in this important ministry. I think there is a great need to help equip laity for such a ministry, something Alexandra models superbly. "
Rev Jon Strand
Episcopal Priest, The Church of the Holy Comforter, Vienna, VA
"I would like to introduce you to a training that will give you new insights and abilities in pastoral care. Alexandra MacCracken is a parishioner and a gifted lay pastoral care minister at Holy Comforter, and a Gestalt Soul Care Practitioner. The work of Gestalt Soul Care is a means of learning to listen deeply to those seeking spiritual counsel and inviting creative work with the help of the Holy Spirit. This has resulted in healing for many in transformative ways.
Alexandra recently shared this kind of spiritual work in a day-long retreat for the chaplains at The University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Caterina Mako, the Director of Spiritual Care at Penn Medicine, described their training as both effective and profound for all who participated, among their interfaith chaplains."
Author: Owning Your IT. Providing Leadership Conference facilitation and targeted training to level up your employees interpersonal communication skills. Author: Owning Your IT. Providing Leadership Conference facilitation and targeted training to level up your employees interpersonal communication skills.
"Alexandra and I worked together on a volunteer project within ICF. First, for others considering hiring her, it is a pleasure working with Alexandra as her energy is calm, knowledge bountiful, and demeanor is consistent and supportive. Second, her breadth and depth of knowledge supports her ability to intertwine elements of a project or conversation and inspire creativity in others. She is an inspirational, positive, unique, and creative partner.Alexandra and I worked together on a volunteer project within ICF. First, for others considering hiring her, it is a pleasure working with Alexandra as her energy is calm, knowledge bountiful, and demeanor is consistent and supportive. Second, her breadth and depth of knowledge supports her ability to intertwine elements of a project or conversation and inspire creativity in others. She is an inspirational, positive, unique, and creative partner."
Rev. Dr. Joan Prentice
Executive Director, Faith-Based Ministry | Pastoral Care | Contemplative Healing Retreats | Leadership TrainingExecutive Director, Faith-Based Ministry | Pastoral Care | Contemplative Healing Retreats | Leadership Training
"I’m a non-denominational Christian pastor, Founder and Executive Director of the Ephesus Project. I wholeheartedly recommend Alexandra as a Gestalt Soul Care mentor. I have personally experienced her careful, compassionate, and skillful mentoring and coaching. Alexandra has a beautifully discerning spirit, and her ability to listen deeply and guide with both wisdom and grace makes her work powerfully effective. Her unique combination of intuitive wisdom, professional skill, and genuine care for the soul creates a space where real healing and transformation can take place. I am truly grateful for the impact she has had on my life and encourage anyone seeking soul-deep renewal to connect with her.Rev. Dr. Joan Prentice. I’m a non-denominational Christian pastor, Founder and Executive Director of the Ephesus Project. I wholeheartedly recommend Alexandra as a Gestalt Soul Care mentor. I have personally experienced her careful, compassionate, and skillful mentoring and coaching. Alexandra has a beautifully discerning spirit, and her ability to listen deeply and guide with both wisdom and grace makes her work powerfully effective. Her unique combination of intuitive wisdom, professional skill, and genuine care for the soul creates a space where real healing and transformation can take place. I am truly grateful for the impact she has had on my life and encourage anyone seeking soul-deep renewal to connect with her."
Philip C Bergey
Phil Bergey is an executive leadership coach who builds on 30 years of diverse leadership experience in business and non-profit roles to form trusted relationships and deliver results with humor, flexibility, and depth. He has held a Professional Coach Certification from the International Coaching Federation since 2009 and is certified to use multiple psychometric assessments.
"Alexandra is a warm, witty and wise coach and practitioner. Her careful ear, holistic outlook, and insightful use of questions and metaphor make her an unusually effective communicator and guide. I strongly recommend her!Alexandra is a warm, witty and wise coach and practitioner. Her careful ear, holistic outlook, and insightful use of questions and metaphor make her an unusually effective communicator and guide. I strongly recommend her!"
Bishop Robert Ihloff
Bishop of Maryland, resigned
"I want to introduce you to a wonderful resource within Province III in the Diocese of Virginia, about which you may not know. Gestalt Pastoral Care out of Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna, VA, provides quality training in listening and providing Christian care led by a fine team of trainers under the direction of Alexandra MacCracken. I had the pleasure of getting to know Alexandra a few years ago when I was Assisting Bishop of Virginia. I was so impressed with her when we first met in the context of my visitation in Church of the Holy Comforter, Vienna, I signed up for a day-long group training session led by her. I was very moved by Alexandra's skills as a listener and pastoral care giver. Subsequently, I have referred a number of people to her for spiritual direction and/or for training in pastoral care.
My read of the church of the future is that pastoral care will become even more important in parish life in the coming days; with demands on clergy time becoming more complex, there is already a great need to have qualified lay pastoral caregivers involved in this important ministry. I think there is a great need to help equip laity for such a ministry, something Alexandra models superbly. "
Rev Jon Strand
Episcopal Priest, The Church of the Holy Comforter, Vienna, VA
"I would like to introduce you to a training that will give you new insights and abilities in pastoral care. Alexandra MacCracken is a parishioner and a gifted lay pastoral care minister at Holy Comforter, and a Gestalt Soul Care Practitioner. The work of Gestalt Soul Care is a means of learning to listen deeply to those seeking spiritual counsel and inviting creative work with the help of the Holy Spirit. This has resulted in healing for many in transformative ways.
Alexandra recently shared this kind of spiritual work in a day-long retreat for the chaplains at The University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Caterina Mako, the Director of Spiritual Care at Penn Medicine, described their training as both effective and profound for all who participated, among their interfaith chaplains."