Spotlight on our Speakers

Our contracted Minister, Rev. Diane Diachishin graduated and was ordained by All Faiths Seminary in NYC in 2022. She taught music for 30+ years in private and public-school systems. She has been an active member of the UUCRT for 25 years, wearing many hats. Diane has been Chair of Pastoral Care, served as VP and Secretary to the Board, and Chair of Sunday Service Ministry.

She facilitated the study and practice of Compassionate Communication for several years and currently facilitates the monthly Soul Matters group. Diane considers herself a life-long Unitarian. From the age of four, summer vacations were spent with her family and her Star Island community, at an ongoing retreat for UU’s of all ages, which still continues to be a source of renewal and inspiration for her. Diane is passionate about her family, playing music, hiking, and travel.

Jaye Moyer is a committed meditation practitioner as well as a psychotherapist, and board-certified trainer and educator of psychodrama and group psychotherapy practicing in Hudson Valley.

She integrates Buddhist psychology with compassion and mindfulness training and draws on the inspiration of music, art, poetry and nature to help people connect to clarity, openness and spontaneity.
She specializes in individuals and couples and has presented nationally and internationally the integration of mindfulness, experiential investigation and group process.

She most recently presented at a national conference on Trauma and Resilience for the American Association of Group Psychotherapists and Psychodrama. She is the creator of an on-line program entitled Embodied Presence in Action She teaches meditation and dharma for the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies “Daily Sit”. Jaye has a beautiful daughter, Molly and lives with her beloved husband John in Beacon, New York.

Jaye Moyer, LCSW-R
www.JayeMoyer.com

Rev. Pamela Patton is the Assistant Minister of All Souls NYC. Formerly the Director of Congregational
Ministries, Pamela was ordained by the All Souls congregation in October 2024. Pamela is both a Unitarian
Universalist and a Buddhist and founded the Buddhism and Mindfulness program at All Souls. She has been involved with All Souls for 30 years. Her own spiritual practice is in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and her dharma home is Shantideva Center in Brooklyn. Pamela holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and she has clinical chaplaincy experience at various NYC hospitals, The Jewish Theological Seminary, and the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care. She also holds an M.A. in
Education and Computing from Teachers College and a B.S. in Mathematics from Tufts University.

Elizabeth Mehling has been a member of the UUCRT since 2020. She is an active member of the Sunday Service Ministry, the Leadership Ministry, Safety Team, and the Green Ministry. A filmmaker by trade, she
produced a historical documentary for the UUCRT’s 150th anniversary, alongside longtime members
such as Verne Bell. Outside of filmmaking, she is also engaged with the Social-Emotional Wellness
group within the nonprofit group We The People Warwick. She is extremely passionate about environmental causes and is consistently seeking ways to reduce our impact on Mother Earth.

Rev. Beth Dana is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, raised in Albany, NY. She received a B.A. in Religious Studies and Metropolitan Studies from New York University in 2008. She studied abroad in Ghana and
took two years off from undergrad to serve the Unitarian Universalist Association. She earned her Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 2012.
Beth serves as the Minister of Faith Development in the First Unitarian Church of Dallas and lives in east Dallas with her wife Erin and their twins Ellery and MD.