Amy Steele

Interim Board Chair

Amy E. Steele, Ph.D., is  is a spiritual director, social ethicist, entrepreneur, and ordained clergy serving in campus ministry. With each encounter, she witnesses the presence of the Holy, prompting, clarifying, and healing the remote corners of personal thought and action. She was part of the first cohort of our School of Spiritual Direction before becoming Board Chair.

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Abby Buter Oakhart

Board Member

Abby has over 15 years of experience working in the nonprofit sector. She started out working in communications, marketing and program development and is now the Training and Education Manager for the Financial Empowerment Network.

She’s also a certified spiritual director, Enneagram coach, and Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Her favorite thing to do is teach and talk about the Enneagram, self-care, and trauma informed approaches to the work we do. Abby is passionate about walking alongside people as they ask spiritual questions, unpack their stories, and come home to themselves. She is a compassionate listener and loves to integrate the ways of wisdom and the Enneagram into her spiritual direction practice.       

Jess Hansen

Mentor, Instructor, Board Member

Jess (she/them) believes spirituality is foundational to every human. If you find yourself in a place where the religious institution/church doesn’t quite fit or is uncomfortable or even painful, Jess wants to hear your story.

“We all have our own flavor of spirituality that is begging to be embraced,” says Jess. “Befriending your own misfit spirituality is a liberating homecoming.”

Jess provides companionship and guidance on finding your way home to yourself, reimagining your faith, and experiencing freedom and healing in embracing your own spiritual misfit-ness.

Kasey Hitt, MDiv

Executive Director

Kasey brings more than 20 years of experience as a spiritual director to Wisdom Tree Collective.

Prior to moving to Mt. Juliet (near Nashville, TN) in 2008, Kasey spent five years in Washington State where she earned a Master of Divinity and Certificate in Spiritual Direction at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. She grew up in Ohio and was a youth pastor in the United Methodist Church for five years in Missouri before heading to the Seattle area.

Her way of spiritual direction can be described as offering hospitality to the soul by being present and listening to the whole of one's life—daytime, nighttime, body, mind, spirit, and relationships. She utilizes a variety of ancient and present-day tools to help her directees. These include lectio divina, dreamwork, breathwork, IFS (parts work), imaginative & guided prayer, and relaxation.

Kasey's own story of becoming a spiritual director began with mental, physical, and relational burnout as a youth pastor, so she is especially passionate about a healthy, authentic spirituality.

In addition to spiritual direction, Kasey also offers retreats, classes, supervision for spiritual directors, and is a Level III Reiki therapist. Thanks to directees asking to be trained by her over the years, she has developed and is offering a two-year Wisdom-based online program to train spiritual directors, which began fall 2021.

Kasey resides with her husband, Russ, daughter, Lainey, and son, Alex. She enjoys a cup of tea, reading, juggling, baking, taking art lessons, a walk through the woods, and quiet mornings with her Russian Blue cat, Birdie, on her lap.

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