Online Certified Sage-ing Leaders (CSL) Team:

Ruby Grad, CSL – Co-Facilitator, spent her career as a litigator and then in legal publishing.  She is a practicing Western-convert Buddhist, a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader program. In 2014 she was ordained as a lay Buddhist minister. Dedicating her life to service, Ruby has volunteered for hospice, was a chaplain in health care and carceral facilities, as well as a Dharma leader. 

Rees Robinson, CSL - Co-Facilitator, left her engineering and project management career in 2015 to pursue her passion for facilitating processes that empower people as they age. In addition to being certified as a Sage-ing Leader, Rees has trained as a Spiritual Director and is certified to facilitate End of Life Planning workshops and to teach Guided Autobiography classes.

Georgeanna Tryban, CSL - Co-Facilitator, is a former treasurer of Sage-ing International and a retired professor of social psychology and gerontology at Indiana State University.   Her clinical MSW from Tulane University focused on cognitive behavioral approaches to increasing optimism in older persons.  Her passion for service is shown in her commitment to her local Wisdom Circle and her volunteer work with Youth for Understanding, which sponsored her own exchange to Japan in 1969.

Karen West, CSL - Co-Facilitator, has been a seeker and an educator all her life.  She spent her work life first as an English teacher and then as a career counselor.  In 2007 Karen completed her training as a Spiritual Director; then after retiring in 2012 she was certified as a Sage-ing Leader and as a Legacy Facilitator.  Conscious Aging and Sage-ing have become her passion.