BIC has a leadership council that supports the sangha in its growth and offerings to the community. This committee consists of members who attend events regularly, share a commitment to the well being and development of the Sangha, and are willing to give some time and energy to its maintenance. We welcome your input and participation!
Current Council Members:
Rose Toth
Mary Corelli
Sandy Kindt
Suzanne Colón
Would You Like to Join our Council? We’d love to have more participation, feedback loops and input. We meet every couple of months for about 1.5 hours. Commitment can me limited to that!
We are currently looking for someone with Quicken and financial reporting skills to help us track our income/expense and support the council with quarterly bookkeeping. If this is up your alley, please email and let us know!
Suzanne serves as our guiding teacher and sangha coordinator. She leads the Tuesday morning Brahma Vihara group (Kindhearted Awareness), maintains our website, sends emails, coordinates visiting teachers and oversees our residential retreats at the BBar ranch. She sits on the Dharma Center’s Programs Committee to liaise programming and scheduling for our group. She has stepped back from teaching on Thursday evenings to focus on occasional Saturday workshops, Mindful Self-Compassion courses and retreat practice.
Suzanne has been meditating in the Insight (Vipassana) tradition since 1992 and has been a member of the Bozeman Insight Community since moving here in 1998. She completed Sprit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leader training in 2017. She is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion Course (MSC) teacher and has completed the first year of Somatic Experiencing (SE) training so that her teaching can be trauma-informed and supported by nervous-system regulation tools.
Mary Corelli is delighted to teach and participate in the Insight Sangha. She began her Buddhist practice in 2009 in the Zen tradition and branched into Vipassana over the years. She graduated from the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield in 2020. She is also a mother, a mental health therapist, and a writer.
Mary offers teachings, guided practice and discussion one Thursday a month. She also shares leadership of the Dharma Center’s MindSpace group – our under-40 meditation community (Tuesdays at 6:15)
Rose Toth has been a member of the Bozeman Insight Community since 1997, and served its leaders, programs and visiting teachers in innumerable ways. Her dedication to practice, generous heart and support of others in the dharma community is apparent to all who have the privilege of sharing sangha, a book group, or a leadership meeting with her. Thanks, Rose!!
Floyd Fantelli was our sangha’s guiding teacher for 9 years until moving to California in the fall of 2021. He has been practicing meditation for over 30 years and was trained for the role of teacher by Matt Flickstein. You will find a treasure trove of his dharma talks and sutta studies in the archives of this website. If you’d like to connect with him, he can be reached at fantelliflorio2@gmail.com
We miss you, Floyd!
