Adie Goldberg
Adie brings an extraordinary background for accompanying others at threshold moments around parenting, women’s health issues, family conflict, illness, and end of life care. She is a psychotherapist and social worker who has taught Jewish medical ethics and she teaches Mussar in contexts ranging from training healthcare practitioners, to working with young families and to leading va’ads in Ashland, Oregon and Spokane Washington. At root, Adie is someone who lives this practice, takes it seriously, raises the hard questions and moves from a heart-centered place.
Nancy Axelrod
Nancy has been involved in Mussar almost from the very beginning. Before she even encountered Mussar, she was already leading a life of activism and commitment to the needs of the other. Mussar allowed her to expand her vision from social action to spiritual action. She served as Center for Contemporary Mussar (CCM) Executive Director, taught many Mussar groups, trained Mussar Madrachim and served as the Chairperson of the Board as it transitioned from a local to a national and international community. More importantly, she has perhaps as well as any student who has studied in CCM, fully internalized its transformational practice. Her engagement not only with the protocols of the program, but with the Central text makes her uniquely qualified to distill the practice for future students.