Rev. Gwen Masters holds an MA in Celtic Christianity from the University of Wales, Lampeter and has travelled extensively through the Celtic lands of the UK and Ireland attending courses at Lampeter, Iona and Sarum College. She is a trained and experienced spiritual director (anam chara) and has led many discussions on varying aspects of Celtic Culture, Wisdom and Spirituality, including cruise-ship scholarship lecturing. Gwen led the Beechworth (Victoria, Australia) Celtic Pilgrimage for several years, producing study booklets and leading meditation on Celtic themes for pilgrims. Gwen grew up on a small mixed farm in central Victoria. After schooling she had a variety of jobs before travelling to Alice Springs where she worked at a Children's hostel run by the Methodist Inland Mission, caring for outback children in town for their education. She completed her Presbyterian deaconess training obtaining a Dip. R.E. after which she was posted to the West Kimberley area of NW Australia where she worked in an educational role with children and in adult education for the aboriginal community. From here she moved to the East Kimberley where she and husband Wayne were house parents for outback children. After being ordained as a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia, she served in a city church in Canberra, a suburban church in Melbourne and then resourcing Lay Ministry teams in rural Victoria. Gwen is mother of four young men of whom she is inordinately proud, and is enjoying a growing number of grand-children. Her email is: [email protected]