Spiritual Renewal
The BOARD of DIRECTORS

Lora Cardarelli
Parks, Arizona

Lora is a member of the Rockhaven Ecozoic Center's volunteer community. She has dedicated her summers in making improvements to the Center's property and well as cooking sumptuous meals for the retreatants at Rockhaven. For 20 years, Lora worked for the Arizona Department of Corrections and is now currently busy running her own property management business in Northern Arizona. Lora's interests are in pottery, the outdoors, and raising chickens. She is dedicated to caring for the Earth by being ecologically conscious, living sustainably, and advocating for women's issues and LGBT rights.


Jan Stocking, RSM, MEd, MA Spirituality
House Springs, Missouri

Jan is the Executive Director of Rockhaven Ecozoic Center and one of its founding members. Before coming to Rockhaven, she ministered in the educational institutions in the Greater Detroit area. Her personal journey brought her to Rockhaven in 2000 to join its sabbatical program. Here she discovered her desire to work among circles of women, foster eco-feminism, and work towards multi-culturalism. She has spent time in Argentina and the Philippines. As an educator and a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, she looks forward to sharing the New Story as she companions people who come to Rockhaven.


Denise Rushing, MA Spirituality
Upper Lake, California

Denise is a founding member of the Rockhaven Ecozoic Community. Her passion is developing the community's sustainable living in relationship with the land, including organic food and energy use. She is an environmentalist with a 20-year history of senior leadership positions in sustainable alternative energy and energy technology. She is also a writer, a potter, and she delights in the science of Earth's Sacred Story. Denise is a dedicated spiritual sojourner who has chosen to devote her life to the Great Work of transforming human relationship with Earth.