CORE TEAM

KATHRYN DICKEL

Kathryn is the Director of the Crone Fire Weekend and founder of Pollinate Ritual and Hive House. She has facilitated retreats for six years and is currently pursuing her certification in spiritual direction with the esteemed Haden Institute.

Kathryn is fascinated with creation, transition and growth. She believes it is within these cycles that our greatest opportunity to find meaning exists. We silo much of our lives into work, family, recreation and identity. Kathryn helps people to integrate these silos into one connected and meaningful life through 1-1 client work, support group facilitation, community events and retreat intensives.

SHANNISSY CATRON

Shannissy Catron is a doula and multi-disciplinary practitioner rooted in the synergy of intuitive massage for a decade. She specializes in working with people who are survivors of sexual trauma and substance recovery, while her integrative touch practice focuses on personal and partnered intimacy.

Shannissy is the director of healing arts at Pollinate Ritual. curating the healing practitioners available through our weekends and creating new healing modalities at pollinate that bridge ritual and standard therapuetic modalities.

BOBBI HOPP

Bobbi Hopp is a 54-year-old gender expansive Jill of all trades. She is a kitchen witch, roboticist, computer, engineer, artist and nature lover. She is on a path seeking to heal herself as well as others.

KATE MILLIGAN

Kate Milligan (she/hers) is nurtured by silence, poetry, art, chants, wisdom work, movement and feasting with kindred spirits around a crowded table. Her background is in communications, design, and presentations, also volunteering and pro-bono work. Kate also uses the Spirit name Rosa, received on a pilgrimage. She offers a deep bow of gratitude for wise teachers, mystics, pray-ers, Mother Earth and those who tend her.

THE REV. ROBIN HATZENBUEHLER

Robin’s two childhood favorite playtime “occupations” were teacher and minister  (it didn’t seem to bother her that she’d never seen a female in the latter role!). That just goes to prove that “the child is father to the man” — or in this case mother to the woman, because she has filled both those roles — teacher and minister — during her lifetime.

 Straight out of college Robin worked for the Office for Civil Rights, thanks to her college major of Spanish. She then went back to school to get a teaching certificate in a program designed to prepare teachers who wanted to teach in inner city schools, and then found a job teaching Spanish and English to middle schoolers.  From there she again went back to school to get a master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology, ultimately working with preschoolers. During this time, Robin began to feel the nudge to go into the priesthood.  That took her into an ecumenical seminary and onto ordination as an Episcopal priest. She served her first two years on the staff at a large Episcopal Church in Memphis, TN and from thereafter at a large retirement community where she was the Chaplain and Director of Religious Services for residents in Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Nursing Care. Retiring from that job at age 70, she moved to North Carolina and soon began a course in Spiritual Direction with the Haden Institute. She offers the following mantra she lives by, “I am still learning” a quote attributed to Michelangelo.   

SUZANNE PARKS PULCHER

With 18 years of nursing experience in Hospice, Neurology and ICU, Suzanne has expanded her wisdom to focus on life transits encompassing loss, as such she is a certified end-of-life doula.

Suzanne has also helped many clients find peace through ambiguous losses such as divorce, job loss and family passings.  

Suzanne facilitates the Charlotte’s Door End of Life support group at the Pollinate Hive House and sees clients in end of life transition for one on one support.

MONIQUE HERSCH

Monique fosters multiple animals, specializing in equine animals, from her farm outside of Louisville KY. She is a gifted show horse-woman and holds a degree in education. She is a storyteller at heart and has a fondness for all things that hold a story and show their age. She is a mother and grandmother of boundless energy and has built a beautiful life with her husband of 40 years, Joe.

REV. DR. LINDA PRIVITERA

The Rev. Dr. Linda Privitera is currently an associate priest at St. John’s Cathedral in Florida after serving in the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Ottawa for 20 years. Her previous ministries were spent in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

She has an M.Div. from Yale University, a certificate in Anglican studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and a D. Min. in congregational development from Episcopal Divinity School. Her undergraduate work was in nursing. She was ordained in the Diocese of Connecticut in 1987.

Her specialty interests are art as a spiritual practice, retreat and quiet days, social justice, and spiritual direction. She is currently enrolled at the Haden Institute, which gathers at Kanuga. For many years in both the US and Canada, Linda was a mentor and supervisor for ordinands.

At St. John’s Cathedral, she has co-led classes on Sacred Ground and a variety of other adult education offerings through the Council for Spirituality and Formation. She is a part of the editorial board for the Cathedral Quarterly publication. She is the coordinator and presenter for the Quiet Garden mornings held monthly in Cummings Chapel and the Cathedral Gardens.

She is married to Dr. Melissa Haussman, a professor of political science. Her three children and five grandchildren live in the Boston area. If she is not reading, she is in her art space or in the garden.

WILL DAWSON & RYAN JOSEPH ALLEN

Snug Hollow is an award-winning retreat center tucked into a magical ‘holler’ in central Kentucky. It has gained such accolades as “50 Best Girlfriend Getaways of North America” by National Geographic Traveler, “One of the 5 Most Romantic Places in the South” by Southern Living, and “One of the Top 10 BnBs in Kentucky” by Trip Advisor. Snug Hollow has been building their sanctuary for 25 years when founder Barbara Napier began an organic farm on part of the nearly 300 acres, living in a cabin built there in the 1800s. As she farmed, she began to build what would become the farmhouse inn building in 1998. Then she began inviting people out for a cozy getaway and delicious farm-to-table meals. Over the years, she continued to add cabins while maintaining the charm. In 2024, Barbara retired and Will Dawson and Ryan Joseph Allen bought Snug Hollow, moved in and with the long-time staff continued to bring the magic to the holler. They’ve added a new meeting house to support the needs of retreats like Crone Fire.