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Heart Story

Consulting

Kerr Mesner, Ph.D
Consultant
Facilitator
Spiritual Director

Why Heart Story?

“Heart Story” captures three strands:
  • My own heart story: the diverse experiences and training I bring as a consultant, facilitator, professor, pastor, spiritual director, nonprofit administrator, teaching artist, mediator, and activist, that have led me to develop the heart-centered, values-led, approach I bring to all my work.
  • Organizational heart stories: the work of helping organizations and institutions to articulate their values and commitments, and to align those commitments with their systems and practices.
  • Individual heart stories: helping individuals explore their own deepest commitments, and to integrate those commitments with their work, activism, and expression in the world.

I Offer

  • Gender Diversity / Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consulting: Consulting support to higher education, K-12 schools, nonprofits, and workplaces seeking to articulate and align their policies and practices around diversity, equity, and inclusion, with particularly expertise in gender/sexual diversity.
  • Workshops and Retreats: Design and facilitation online and in person workshops and retreats, including teambuilding, communication, arts/creativity, contemplative practices, and Theatre of the Oppressed.
  • Executive Coaching: for individuals leading in academic, nonprofit, and business sectors seeking to better integrate their spiritual/ ethical values with their professional lives (with particular expertise in gender and sexuality)
  • Group Spiritual Direction: online, monthly groups, to reflect on one’s spiritual or contemplative path, with a trained listener who provides and holds space for this sacred work.
Nature photography by Laura MacCarald.
Portrait photography by Yang Liu
“Students remarked upon Kerr’s ability to establish a brave space in which they felt empowered to discuss challenging, often uncomfortable topics…. I witnessed in our students a depth of analysis and willingness to move beyond their comfort zone in Kerr’s sessions, both of which were a result of his brilliance as a facilitator.”
Sonia M. Rosen, Ph.D.Director of Inquiry and Reflective Practice
Independent School Teaching Residency Program
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education