Michelle Scott-Huffman

**Currently Participating in the Courage & Renewal Facilitator Preparation Program

Michelle lives and works at the busy intersection of higher education, ecumenical ministry, interfaith exploration, community organizing, and LGBTQ+ advocacy. Her work in all of these areas coalesce in a profound desire to be present with people asking big questions and doing the work to go deeper within in order to show up more fully and authentically out there (wherever there may be). Always a proponent of widening the circle, Michelle seeks to constantly hone her personal practice and facilitation to be trauma-informed, anti-racist/anti-oppressive, and increasingly inclusive of all the ways people show up in the world. 

Michelle and her wife, Stephanie, live on a mini-farm in Southwest Missouri where they enjoy giving away colorful eggs from their ever growing flock of chickens, tending to a couple of horses, and driving around on a big, orange tractor. Proud parents of two young adult daughters, they are experimenting with life as empty nesters and marveling at the gifts of this new season. Michelle can’t imagine a better way to enter into a new season than to reconnect oneself with one’s soul in a Circle of Trust, “hearing one another into deeper speech.” (as Parker Palmer might say)