Ganman Cathy Toldi
Santa Cruz Zen Center / Jorinzan Gyokuon-ji
Santa Cruz, CA
Cathy has been practicing Zen at Santa Cruz Zen Center (Warm Jewel Temple) since 1987. She received the precepts and priest ordination from her root teacher, Katherine Thanas, and dharma transmission from Patrick Teverbaugh. She completed three monastic practice periods at Tassajara Zen Monastery. Cathy holds a Masters degree in Organization Development from California Institute of Integral Studies. Her thirty year career as a group consultant and facilitator informs her focus on integrating Zen into the relational domain.
She is a co-author of the best-selling Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making (Jossey-Bass) and has published several well-received essays that explore the integration of Zen teachings and group work: Feeling Our Way to Embodied Wisdom, which appears in the 2018 book Zen Teachings in Challenging Times, Temple Ground Press; and two essays in BuddhaDharma magazine: Awaken With Them? Really? (summer 2013) and Me and My Imperfect Teacher (summer 2017.) Cathy is currently completing a book titled Intimate Zen: Waking Up To Yourself, With Others, and For the World.