Who Will Lead You
Your Facilitators
Renée Dineen
Founder of Modern Goddess Retreat and Lead Facilitator
The experience was created and will be guided by Renée Dineen—a wife, mother of two high-school aged children, certified leadership & life coach, seasoned group facilitator, travel writer, and global explorer. Through her extensive training, healing of her own mother wounds, and related life experiences, Renée lovingly and skillfully supports you in discovering how to reinforce an already strong relationship or repair one that may be broken.
Today Renée runs her own global coaching and consulting practice out of California, with an important focus on women and leadership. She believes that the new era of women’s leadership calls us to step more fully into our role as change-makers—requiring greater attention to self-care, a willingness to heal what calls to be healed, and the courage to name and pursue our truest aspirations. Only then can women achieve the freedom, discernment and choiceful balance needed to do their best work in the world, in all the communities they serve.
Renée earned her Masters Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and is a graduate of New Ventures West and the Deep Coaching Institute, two accredited schools by the International Coaching Federation.
Learn about what inspired Renée to create the Modern Goddess Retreat by reading her article, An Unlikely Calling.
To learn more about Renee, go here: http://www.reneedineen.com/aboutrenee
Holli Kaplan
Facilitator
As a recovering “perfect” daughter, wife and mother, Holli’s imperfect journey towards embracing being “enough” informs her work. As an experienced facilitator of workshops for mending relational struggles, her engaging and relatable style invites women to embark on their journey of exploration. Holli offers empathic guidance for women as they tune in to their most authentic and resilient selves. From this vulnerable place of self-reflection, Holli escorts women towards alignment between intentions and impacts that serve their relationships and their truest selves. The women she works with gain insight and practical applications, ensuring each walks away energized and motivated – and with a sense of actionable direction for relationships that thrive. Holli holds inclusive space for women who desire to reclaim their powerful influence and live a heart-centered life with those who matter to them most.
Holli possesses a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and is an ICF certified parent coach for parents of struggling tweens, teens and young adults. She is founder of Force of Nurture and is devoted to helping parents be the most positive influential force in their child’s life..
Holli’s 25 year marriage and 23 years as a mother have inspired, challenged, and humbled her in ways that have made her personal growth journey the best hardest work ever. In her spare time Holli can be found rocking out to live music, sewing, traveling abroad, hiking with her family, or dancing like nobody’s watching.
Aleia Amend
Somatic and Self-Care Facilitator
Aleia has dedicated her adult life to working with women. She has been an executive in the beauty industry for 25 years using that platform to holistically guide women to seeing and believing their truth with acceptance of self through the lens of their soul. Along with helping women disrupt their relationship to contrived standards of beauty, she has a tremendous passion for empowering women to choose themselves through the art of self care. Whether it’s a yoga class, ballroom dancing, a journal practice, creating a nourishing meal or natural healing through essential oils, Aleia’s empathic connection and support for women is felt before you even meet her!
As an entrepreneur, the creator of Soul Truth Wellness, and the founder of Sol Sisters Nutritious Kitchen, Aleia brings self care full circle with her wellness clients. She walks them gently down the path of mindful awareness around patterns and behaviors that are not in service of their soul’s journey. This facilitates truth and courage that nourishes their bodies and inspires true joy.
As a trained professional dancer, certified essential oil consultant and certified yoga and Pilates teacher, Aleia brings her integral and unique gifts to the retreat through holistic wellness activities. She will offer a distinctive session created to unearth our soul’s truth to empower a courageous and truthful journey in this life.
Most importantly, Aleia is a mother of a 14 year old daughter and is on her own emotional journey with her mother which anchors her love and commitment for this work.
Kristi Manchester
Chief of Staff
Kristi has been attending and facilitating personal development workshops and seminars since the 80's. She is currently the Chief of Staff for a program called Partner in Excellence, a highly experiential life and leadership course for women that has been running since 2000. In 1990 Kristi co-founded CARTE: Child Abuse Resolved Through Education, a 501C3 non-profit that is still active today. The CARTE sponsored program that has had the most impact on her is a week-long camp for high-risk teenage girls, who have been abused and/or sexually exploited. STARR (Succeed Through Accountable Responsible Resolve) is an experiential life course that addresses specific issues most prevalent in this population of high-risk teen girls.
Kristi is also a step mother of two grown children and a very active "Grammy" to 4 grandchildren. She has been involved with the Modern Goddess Retreat since the beginning and brings immense experience, joy, care and patience to working with our young goddesses.
Aftan Murphy
Facilitator for Young Goddesses
Aftan has been a part of the Modern Goddess retreats since inception. She has been mothering since she was a young girl helping her parents raise her 6 younger siblings. Today she is a mother to three young children that she and her husband adopted in 2018. She is a protector of children and has been called to a mighty task of mothering and inviting into her home, neglected and abused children, who have experienced trauma in their family of origin, and as a result have been placed into the foster care system. She is an advocate for ending human trafficking and volunteers with SF Bay Area organizations in their efforts towards the prevention of the slave trade.
Aftan has a BA degree from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA and uses her Degree of Human Services in her every day life as she partners with the Department of Child Protective Services as a foster mother.
Aftan loves working with children and is grateful to be a part of bringing out the best in them, while providing an environment for their voices and hearts to be heard in a safe and healing space.
Her healing journey has been pivotal to her ability to serve and mother children with trauma background and the Modern Goddess retreat has been part of her healing foundation. For this she is extremely grateful and honored to share this incredible experience with others.