Tara Klena Barthel (JD, MBA, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana) has served as a professional Christian mediator for over twenty years. She also maintains her license to practice law in the state of Illinois, with her work focused in the area of high net worth (charitable) estate planning and Christian ADR. Tara formerly led the Institute for Christian Conciliation during its tenure under Ken Sande, and she continues to accept Christian conciliation cases and speaking engagements as her schedule so allows. Tara is the author of the peacemaking women's video series Living the Gospel in Relationships and coauthor of the books Peacemaking Women and Redeeming Church Conflicts. Tara also delights in serving her family as a homemaker and her community as a rhetoric teacher. To learn more, please visit www.tarabarthel.com.
Judy Dabler (MA, MATS, Covenant Theological Seminary) works nationally and internationally as a Christian conciliator, trainer, educator, conference speaker, counselor, and consultant. Drawing on twenty years of leadership experience in two other counseling and conciliation organizations, Judy founded Creative Conciliation (R) (www.CreativeConciliation.org) to advance the field of Christian conciliation through education, training, and gospel-centered reconciliation services. Judy has coauthored Peacemaking Women and contributed a chapter called Biblical Counseling, the Church, and Conflict Resolution in Biblical Counseling and the Church: God's Care Through God's People. Judy is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri and a Certified Christian Conciliator (TM) with the Institute for Christian Conciliation (TM). Judy and Jim, her husband of nearly forty years, have recently opened their retreat center with a guest home available for hurting individuals and couples to receive intensive conciliation services in the beautiful Ozark highlands of Missouri.
