Meet Our Council

Sally Jones (Chair)

Dip. Bible and Missions, Grad Dip. Spiritual Direction, M.Min., Program Director Listen into Life Spiritual Direction Formation Program (Barnabas Ministries)

Pastoral Supervisor, Transforming Practices;  Senior Accredited Supervisor APSE (UK); Supervisor AAOS

Member Chaplaincy Australia, Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Direction (Chair), Australian Christian Mentoring Network, Australian Network for Spiritual Direction

Sally is a trained and recognised Pastoral Supervisor, Spiritual Director and Mentor. 

She has more than 10 years experience in formational supervision of Christian mentors at both post-graduate and non-AQF levels. 

She is currently the Program Director of Barnabas Ministries’ ‘Listen into Life’ Spiritual Direction Formation Program, which includes supervision of directors-in-formation.  

Sally is in private practice in Sydney’s north-west, which includes offering Pastoral Supervision to chaplains, mentors, spiritual directors, case workers and other ministry workers.

Judy Van Rossum (Treasurer)

Judy is an Anglican priest, spiritual director, and professional supervisor.  She has a Grad Dip and Masters in spiritual direction, both completed at Dayspring in Perth.  Judy is also a team member of the Tree of Life Spiritual Formation Programme in the Anglican Diocese of Perth.  Having spent her final years of full-time ministry in the mining industry as a chaplain, Judy retired in 2022 and offers spiritual direction and supervision through her private practice and in association with the Fullness of Life Centre.  She is married to Arthur and they have five adult children between them, and six grandchildren who she enjoys spending time with.  Judy also shares her life with Rosie, her crazy black labrador, who ensures retirement is not too quiet! 

Jo-Anne Brown (Secretary)

Jo-anne is a spiritual director and pastoral supervisor, who (with her husband Ross) loves leading retreats and enabling others to discover more of their unique selves and to deepen their relationship with God. She is a graduate of the St Francis Spiritual Direction Formation Programme. She loves working with dreams, exploring the body-soul-spirit connection, and using creative expression to open up pathways to faith and contemplative being. Jo currently facilitates two dream groups in her home and is also a supervisor and teacher with the St Francis Formation SD Programme in Brisbane. She lives in Brisbane with her husband and her two cats (Sophia and Charis) and loves spending time with her children and grandchildren. 

Liz Faulkner

Home for Liz is among the remnant trees of a Blue Gum High Forest, the traditional lands of the Cammeraigal clan, in Sydney’s north.  She is a novice bush-care volunteer and is growing her ability to name her neighbouring plants, people and birds. 

Liz is a graduate of the Listen into Life spiritual formation program and loves creating sanctuary spaces for people in the form of retreats and sacred conversations.  She has an increasingly ecumenical experience of faith communities and a love of going deeper and wider. 

Liz loves wandering and wondering in nature, poetry and listening to people’s stories. 

Kevin Hennessy

Kevin’s Bio is coming soon!

Frances Tilly

Frances has a Master of Spiritual Direction, Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Supervision and is a Recognised Supervisor with AAOS and Chaplaincy Australia. She is a team member of the Listen into Life Spiritual Direction Formation Program (Barnabas Ministries) and a Member (former committee member) of Companions and ANSD.

Frances completed her formation with the Australian Jesuits Arrupe Program and is currently involved in the Program. Based in Sydney, she works in leadership with Jesuit Ignatian Spirituality Australia (JISA), as a formator and practitioner, giving spiritual direction, the spiritual exercises, retreats, professional supervision, and developing and facilitating spiritual formation programs for leadership, staff, and volunteers in diverse pastoral contexts.

Frances has always delighted in seeking the many ways to be drawn and found by God, listening for a person’s particular calling and the living out of one’s personal vocation. She has a great love of story, which began as a child and has deepened through study, living in Europe, and then Australia, and continues through her experience of contemplative accompaniment.

Brianne Falconieri

Brianne’s calling as a Spiritual Director began in 2017 as part of a period of discernment to ministry through the Uniting Church. She has a Bachelor of Psychology and is currently studying a Masters of Spirituality through the University of Divinity. Brianne completed her spiritual direction formation at the House of Prayer and Spirituality in Townsville.

Brianne is now the coordinator and facilitator for the House of Prayer, a contemplative retreat and conference centre. She has a mission and vision to facilitate a place of ecumenical community, retreat, spiritual direction, prayerful and contemplative Christian faith formation.

Brianne is a member of Australian Network for Spiritual Direction, Conference of Spiritual Directors, and Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Direction. Brianne has served on the leadership team with the North Queensland Walk to Emmaus and is involved with Kairos Outside for Women North Queensland. 

Craig Sadler

Craig’s Bio is coming soon!

Ann Lock

Ann is a spiritual director, an ordained Baptist minister, and supervisor. She spent ten years as Director of WellSpring Spirituality Centre and, during that time, was a member of the Formation Team. Ann is a life professed member of the Community of the Transfiguration and with her husband, Garry, lives at the monastery in Teesdale, Victoria.  Ann has three wonderful adult sons and two granddaughters.

Kym Dixon

After completing a degree in Social Work, Kym spent 20 years in Pastoral ministry, while also holding community roles in School Chaplaincy, Homeless Services for women, and Foster Care. She continued study through her Masters program in the areas of Leadership, Spiritual Formation and Pastoral Supervision. Kym is now sharing her time between the Network Resourcing Team, churches of Christ NSW & ACT companioning leaders and churches in their formation and building a private practice in Spiritual Mentoring and Pastoral Supervision. She is in year three of formation as a Spiritual Director with Listen into Life and is enjoying getting to know the riches of the Spiritual Direction community across Australia. Kym is grateful to live beside the waterways and bushlands of Dharawal country in Southern Sydney.

Anne Pate

Anne Pate completed formation as a spiritual director in the Arrupe program at Sentir College, and later taught in the program. She has a Master of Arts in Spiritual Direction, a Graduate Diploma in Supervision, and recently submitted her PhD on the “Fifth Week” of life after the Spiritual Exercises. 

Anne is delighted to be the new Program Director at WellSpring Centre, leading and teaching in the formation programs Art of Spiritual Companioning and Art of Contemplative Practice. Anne is also Missional Spirituality Pastor at Northcote Uniting Church, where she seeks to make the riches of the Christian tradition accessible in today’s context. As a member of AECSD since 2018, Anne has led the Council’s project to articulate recommended attributes of supervisors of spiritual directors, and what constitutes good formation for supervision in this area.

Carmel Tedesco

Carmel Tedesco has a background in education. She has a BA and a B.Theol.  Carmel has lived in Indonesia and Ireland, where she did some Spiritual Direction training. Carmel completed the ‘Professional & Personal Development Intensive for Spiritual Directors’ at Heart of Life in 2014.  She has been offering Spiritual Direction for about 15 years. Carmel regularly gave retreats at Bass Hill Hermitage in Gippsland from 2012 until early 2020.  She lives in Balnarring, on the Mornington Peninsula. Carmel is currently the Spiritual Director for the Cliffs Retreat in Shoreham.