Meet Your 2023 NextGEN Retreat Leadership Team
Get to know us and connect with us today! We can't wait to meet you! Past Leadership Team MembersPast Musicians
- FUNDRAISING & STEWARDSHIP 2.0%
- REGISTRATION 1.7%
- OPS & LOGISTICS 4.7%
- FINANCE 46.6%
- WEBSITE 14.0%
- VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT & AT RETREAT LOGISTICS 7.8%
- WISDOM COUNCIL 23.3%
Rev. Audra Nichole | 2015 – Present
Spirit Uncensored | She / Her / Hers
Rev. Audra Nichole is a phenomenally flawed human and an embodiment of The Divine. She is full of Infinite Love AND some days she feels like she is wearing a bonnet full of bees! Rev. Audra fully understands that this paradoxical nature IS the fullness of life and lives each day as The Best Day Ever!
Originally from San Jose, California, Audra spent most of her adult life in southern California, predominantly in San Diego. She spent a couple of years in Denver, CO, and Oklahoma City, OK, and is excited to see where Spirit guides her to next. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a minor in Spanish from the University of San Diego after spending a semester abroad in Toledo, Spain.
She has spent the last 18+ years helping run businesses as an operations and finance manager, including Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas, CA.
Rev. Audra spent some time as the Education Director at Vision CSL.
She is currently the operations director at SWAN, a nonprofit that supports and guides organizations and leaders to cultivate safe, diverse, balanced, harmonious, and sustainable internal structures and organizational cultures.
Audra is a Licensed New Thought Spiritual Minister and teacher, as well as a Love + Empowerment Coach. She spent over 7 years on the NextGEN Retreat Leadership team. Rev. Audra is currently an Advisor for both NextGEN Retreat and Spirit Uncensored, Inc.
Through her own journey of radically honoring her truth, deeply cultivating her own authentic expression and over fifteen years of unwavering spiritual training and practice she has learned firsthand how to live and embody her bliss!
Jessyca Moberg, RScP. | 2023 – Present
Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living & Spirit Unscensored | She / Her / Hers / They / Them / Theirs
Jessyca Moberg was born and raised within the CSL Community formerly known as religious science. Over the years Jessyca has witnessed multiple changes within the CSL Community, and even greater chances have occurred due to the spiritual development and support from this community. At the age of 13 she attended her first teen camp. It was not until after attending camp that she started to fully embrace her individuality and uniqueness. Starting off with becoming more comfortable with her name. Jessyca is often referred to as Jess-Y-ca. Although she has outgrown her teenage years, Jessyca still supports in coming CSL Youth in many ways. She is currently a youth advisor at the Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living and co-hosts zoom workshops each Sunday. For over seven years she has attended both in person and online teen camp. Jessyca has been part of the Youth and family Resource team to create content and workshops for youth corresponding with CSL’s 2021 global themes. She is currently a practitioner student and looks forward to being a licensed and professional practitioner the summer of 2024.
In addition to her work with youth, Jessyca was one of the co-creators for the 2019 Next Gen meditation retreat that occurred each winter. In addition to her involvement with the CSL community Jessyca enjoys to Travel, eat delicious vegan(ish) food and renovate her RV flow. Jessyca intends on continuing to create experiences that cultivate and support spiritual development for all individuals and is eager to be a part of the 2024 Next Gen Summer Retreat team.
- FUNDRAISING & STEWARDSHIP 43.2%
- OPS & LOGISTICS 21.3%
- MARKETING 35.5%
Music Director
- MUSIC 100%
Jesse Powers | 2024 – Present
Center for Spiritual Living | She / Her / Hers
With her tumbling vocal stylings, powerhouse melodies, and infectious energy, Jesse Powers seeks to awaken, and entertain those who listen. Her poignant and playful lyricism set atop catchy melodies create a musical skydiving experience—a long lyrical jump into the depths of the human heart softened by a parachute of body-moving instrumentation. Wasting no time, her penetrating and positive songs fly straight to the body and soul. She often shares her music at country-wide spiritual gatherings and in the Unity and Centers for Spiritual Living communities, appearing at the VISTA conference, the CSL Minister’s Conference, SOAR, and the CSL Teen Summer Camp. In addition, she can be found playing at the local venues in her home base of Columbus, Ohio. She is frequently a guest singer with several bands in town, including the famed Columbus Irish group, The Drowsy Lads.
She can be seen singing her solo shows under her name, Jesse Powers, as well as with Jesse Michael Barr under their duo, Jesse + Jesse, and with the local Irish/Americana group, Beir Bua.
Jesse’s songwriting chops have also gained recognition from songwriting contests all over the country. Her song “The Love Song of Everything” was a finalist in the 2021 Great American Song Contest and was nominated for a Positive Music Award in 2022. Her performance of her 2020 lockdown anthem “Alpaca Socks” was a finalist in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for Jazz Vocal Performance. In 2017 Jesse finished in the top four contestants in the Voice For Columbus singing contest, in partnership with the Harmony Project. She had the honor of performing with her fellow finalists and the Harmony Project Choir on the Lincoln Theatre Stage. Her debut album “Begin” was released in November, 2017. Her second full-length album “To Remember” was released in summer 2021. You can stream her music on all platforms: https://
Christopher-Grayson Sage Diamond | 2024 – Present
Center for Spiritual Living, San Jose | He / Him / His
Christopher-Grayson Sage Diamond has been around in the CSL teaching for as long as his name is. With his escape from the child-proofed toddler room at his local center, he has always had a desire to take an adventure into the world of spirituality and the science of mind. When he was 13, he attended his first CSL Teen Camp in Idyllwild, CA, where he was mistakenly called “Chris” and the name stuck and grew. In the following years, he gave himself wholly in every aspect he could in CSL Youth Leadership, serving three times as a regional co-director of the American North-West and twice as a member of the international teen leadership program, where he even attended the 2020 CSL Convention in Denver, CO. It was there he had his first encounter with NextGen when he was asked to do the opening prayer for the NextGen session.
Following the convention, the unruly COVID-19 pandemic began, where then Chris took time between virtual classes to do shopping for the more at-risk members of his local center. When the academic year began in the late Summer, he traveled overseas to the Capital of Wales in the UK, Cardiff, studying an English Literature and Philosophy joint honors bachelor’s program. There, despite being far from home and not within any fair distance to a place that practiced the teachings he was raised under, he took the time to explore, more intimately, other religions of the world. From this, Chris found solace in Taoism and makes an attempt to practice it as best he can in the company of the teachings of CSL.
Going forward, Chris looks onto studying NGO Management at the Bayes Business School in the city of London. From there, he hopes to work diligently to help ensure corporations around the world do their part to respect their social impact and uphold their social responsibility
- WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT 70.8%
- REGISTRATION 18.5%
- MARKETING 10.7%
- FINANCE 0%
- MARKETING 29.1%
- REGISTRATION 30.2%
- WISDOM COUNCIL 40.7%
Stefnie Herrera | 2024 – Present
Center for Spiritual Living, Dallas | Unlisted
Stefnie is a testament to the transformative power of Science of Mind and New Thought philosophy in healing and spiritual growth. Having embarked on a journey of self-discovery and inner healing, she found solace and transformation through the teachings and practices of these profound spiritual traditions.
She brings a wealth of personal experience and insight gained from their own journey of overcoming illness and finding spiritual renewal. Guided by compassionate leaders and mentors in the Science of Mind community, she experienced a profound shift—a journey from darkness into light, from pain into purpose. They emerged not only with renewed strength but also with a deep sense of purpose to guide others on their paths to healing and wholeness.
They seek to create spaces of reflection, healing, and empowerment for individuals on their own spiritual journeys. They understand that leadership is not about having all the answers, but about creating a nurturing environment where individuals can discover their own truths and connect with their higher selves. She believes in the inherent resilience of the human spirit and in the profound impact that spiritual community and guidance can have on individual and collective well-being.
Driven by a desire to pay forward the blessings she received, Stefnie humbly steps into this new role,with reverence and gratitude, recognizing the sacred responsibility that comes with guiding others on their paths to enlightenment. They look forward to serving the community with integrity, authenticity, and a deep sense of purpose.
Our Team Agreements
NON-NEGOTIABLES
OUR TEAM'S ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
- Letting Spirit Lead
- A commitment to excellence
- Compassion and Honesty with Ourselves & Each Other
- Weekly Pray Partner / Accountability
- Average Weekly Activity Log (1-2 hrs/week)
- Visioning meeting attendance
- Arrive on time
- NOT be intoxicated at meetings
- Tithe commitment (1% or $5/mo min) does not have to be to NextGEN or SU
- Always speak your truth
- Emotions are welcome here, AND we are professional and respectful of time
- Lean into growing edges
- What we learn here leaves here
- Confidentiality (Double or Single?) assumed Double if personal unless otherwise stated
- Supporting the Learner
- Avoid interrupting others
- Regular leadership self-reflection and self-accountability (1-10 rating of how prepared we are at each meeting)
- Regular breaks (5 min HARD minimum – 10min goal) – Maybe Music/Movement
- Ask for what you need
- No Unsolicited Advice
- No “should-ing”
- Call each other-in
- Dont taking things personally
- Try our best
- Recognize the good
- Show up EVEN if unprepared
- View obstacles as opportunities for growth, rather than impediments
- We learn from failure & celebrate the lesson learned
- Clear, concise, and thoughtful communication
- Minimum 48 hrs notice of deliverables
- Not missing more than 2 meeting
- Required to Watch Video AND Read Notes with 1 week of missing the meeting
- Connect with your Prayer Partner
- If you miss a 3rd meeting you will meet with Rev Audra to discuss capacity