Staff

Jan M. Brown is an advocate and champion for wellness and choice around living in recovery. Jan has lived in recovery from addiction since 1987. Jan’s vocation is as a consultant coach. Her areas of expertise are in addiction recovery and brain injury recovery. She serves in the role of recovery management and success coach for people throughout the country. In addition, Jan serves as founding and executive director for SpiritWorks Foundation Center for Recovery of the Soul, the Center for Addiction Recovery & Wellness.

Jan is a noted national speaker on brain injury and addiction recovery. She is a committee member for various community, regional, and national organizations; a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF); a member of the ICF Special Interest Group on Recovery; a participant in Recovery Coaching forums and e-communities; and past president of Recovery Coaches International. Jan earned a B.A. in Psychology from the College of William and Mary in 1996. She received her Associate Coach Credentialing with the International Coaching Federation in January 2009 and achieved certification as a Professional Recovery Coach through Crossroads Coaching in 2008.

Tim Dickerson is a Recovery Support Specialist at SpiritWorks Foundation. Tim began volunteering at SpiritWorks on August 30, 2010 and began full time employment July 2011.   He has been living in recovery since April 2008.  Tim’s purpose in life is to change the lives of people through music.  He has a passion and talent for music as a producer, recording engineer, and artist developer , all of which lead to his powerful “motivation to keep moving forward”.  Tim is currently enrolled in college at Thomas Nelson Community College to pursue a degree in Marketing. He is also studying computer recording through Blue Sounds Studio. He hopes to be completed in 2012. Tim’s area of expertise in recovery support is twofold, working with men and women parolees and ex offenders and youth and young adults. His experiential knowledge and experiential expertise allow him to demonstrate the special type of attention and understanding that these kinds of clients need.  Tim is also program director of SpiritWorks’ 2IN1 Entertainment, which is in development and includes MusicWorks: Changing Lives Through Music.

Lauren McDonald is the Director of Community Programming at SpiritWorks Foundation. Lauren has been a friend and volunteer of SpiritWorks since 2008 and began employment in January 2012. She has been living in recovery since February 2011. Lauren is an Episcopal priest with a passion for healing and spiritual practices. At SpiritWorks she will oversee volunteer management, faith community education and training, and recovery ministry.

Lauren received a B.A. in Speech and Theatre Arts from The University of the South in 1991 and a M.Div. from Seabury Western in 2008.