Who We Are
The Foundation of Open Hearts Board of Directors
MaryBeth Scalice, MA, Ed.D. is president and founder of The Foundation of Open Hearts. She practices healing arts, writing, teaching, metaphysics and music. As a lifetime student of transcendent experience, she emphasizes a spiritual psychology of glowing that embraces inner experience, imagination, gnosis, vision, creativity, forgiveness, and transpersonal reality. MaryBeth has been a creator, sponsor and presenter for A Course In Miracles retreats and workshops including Camp for Miracles for 12 years. She has published numerous articles on relationship with the divine, and is a member of the Spirituality Initiative at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in Boston. She continues to facilitate a weekly ACIM study group.
Joanna Zarkadas, B.S. Ed., CRM is an educator, healer, writer and Reiki Jin Kei Do Master Teacher who shares her knowledge and insights in an atmosphere of love and acceptance. She has been a student of A Course In Miracles since 1985. For over twenty years she has been teaching classes, facilitating support groups, and designing and producing workshops on a variety of psycho-spiritual topics. She serves on the Camp For Miracles planning committee and as Registrar for all Foundation of Open Hearts events. In addition she is also the Registrar for Open Doors, Classroom for the Universal Course, which brings noted spiritual speakers to the Greater Boston area and Be The Love, which offers weekend retreats in Maryland. All of her work is directed towards assisting individuals on their journeys of self-discovery, transformation and healing.
Ginny Sands, BS.Ed. is a teacher, writer, naturalist and photographer. She has studied A Course in Miracles for 22 years, many of those as a group facilitator. Ginny has practiced Siddha Yoga, Insight Meditation, and Transcendental Meditation. Influenced by the work of Thich Nhat Hahn, she also taught Beginning Meditation. Ginny is an advisor to the board of The Foundation of Open Hearts and is also a board member of Open Doors, Classroom for the Universal Course. Her nature photography is published in Ranger Rick, a national wildlife magazine and in Highlights for Children. Ginny says, my focus is to act from Love in every part of my life.
Michele Savage has been a student of A Course in Miracles since 2004. She currently works in Human Services and is an experienced group facilitator in domestic violence intervention, and Driver Alcohol Education. Michele is a professional trainer in the areas of communication, organization and CPR/standard first aid. Her administrative skills and inspirations are an asset to retreat planning for the Foundation of Open Hearts, where she gives generously of her time as an officer and clerk. Michele became certified as a Reiki Jin Kei Do Level I practitioner in 2007.
Lynn Frazier, M.ED. recently retired from 35 years of teaching in the Boston Public Schools. She is a talented puppeteer, currently teaching drama and puppet workshops for children. She has also served as treasurer of the Boston Area Guild of Puppetry. As a student of A Course in Miracles and staff member of the Camp for Miracle retreats, Lynn has found a path for sharing her love of music, dance and Holy Spirit.
Allison Barker Morse, ScM, MSN, ANP-BC, WHNP, OCN is a relatively new member of the board. She has been a student of A Course in Miracles for five years. She is a nurse practitioner who cares for women with reproductive cancers. Allison has run the Board of Directors for a non-profit that addressed domestic violence as a human rights issue. She is on the Professional Advisory Board at the Wellness Community, Boston that supports cancer patients and their families. She brings her Board experience to the Foundation. She applies the Course to her own self-care as she nurses women and families through difficult journeys.
Julie Vosit-Steller, MSN, FNP-BC, OCN has been a student of A Course in Miracles since 2003 and recently joined the Board. She is an accomplished nurse practitioner in the field of gynecologic oncology and professor of nursing at Simmons College in Boston. She has actively integrated the principles of the Course into all areas of her professional and personal life. She is a founding member of the Rhode Island Free Clinic and a was long-time member of the Medical Advisory Board for the Clinic. Julie enjoys visionary and spiritual writing inspired by nature.
