Experience Together

Women's Leadership Luncheons 2015

Thursday, March 19, 2015 ~ 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

School Sisters of Notre Dame
Sancta Maria in Ripa Campus
Maria Center
336 East Ripa Avenue, St. Louis, MO  63125

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Featured Speaker:Patricia Martens Balke

Dr. Patricia Martens Balke has spent a lifetime in the field of education. Working with youth, educators, religious and parents for more than 40 years, Pat is well known through her many lectures; workshops; the acclaimed video series, In God’s Image: Male and Female; and her book, Sex is Not a Four-Letter Word.

After obtaining her doctorate from St. Louis University, Pat began her work as a psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in work with the GLBT community, victims of sexual abuse and patients with dissociative disorders. Now retired from “active duty,” she is devoting herself to volunteer work. She is serving Microfinancing Partners in Africa, a non-profit charity with headquarters in St. Louis, as both past board member and chair of the education committee.

Pat is the leader of Heartlink’s Monastery, one of the small-group monasteries of the online endeavor, Monasteries of the Heart. This project is the contemporary approach to ongoing spiritual development, led by Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, and the Erie Benedictines.

Deeply involved at Notre Dame High School-St. Louis since her graduation in 1961, Pat currently serves on the school’s “Firmly United” steering committee.

Citing mother and grandmother as her most important and favorite leadership roles in life, Pat spends her spare time climbing through tunnels at the City Museum with her grandkids.

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For more information, contact Debbie Rohrich-Tyler,
314.633.7032 or drohrichtyler@ssndcp.org.

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