Dr Monika Benitan

I have extensive and varied pastoral experience and have led teams in various settings, including leading the English and Welsh branch of a charity for children’s missions overseas, as diocesan advisor for adult pastoral formation, and catechesis, and as a chaplain in university and hospital settings. I also enjoyed the experience as director of a retreat centre in Wales, and leading a diocesan pastoral department.

I completed my teacher training in Slovakia and studied theology at Oxford and Liverpool Universities. I have taught pastoral modules at Liverpool Hope University and coordinated a certificate and diploma programme in pastoral ministry in conjunction with Loyola University Chicago. I am also a research associate at the Margaret Beauford Institute of Theology at Cambridge, researching highly sensitive people, and I have also trained and still practice as a facilitator, spiritual director and supervisor.