Kasey Hitt, MDiv

Co-founder, Director, Instructor

Kasey (she/her) brings more than 20 years of experience as a spiritual director to Wisdom Tree Collective.

Prior to moving to Mt. Juliet (near Nashville, TN) in 2008, Kasey spent five years in Washington State where she earned a Master of Divinity and Certificate in Spiritual Direction at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. She grew up in Ohio and was a youth pastor in the United Methodist Church for five years in Missouri before heading to the Seattle area.

Her way of spiritual direction can be described as offering hospitality to the soul by being present and listening to the whole of one's life—daytime, nighttime, body, mind, spirit, and relationships. She utilizes a variety of ancient and present-day tools to help her directees. These include lectio divina, dreamwork, breathwork, IFS (parts work), imaginative & guided prayer, and relaxation.

Kasey's own story of becoming a spiritual director began with mental, physical, and relational burnout as a youth pastor, so she is especially passionate about a healthy, authentic spirituality.

In addition to spiritual direction, Kasey also offers retreats, classes, supervision for spiritual directors, and is a Level III Reiki therapist. Thanks to directees asking to be trained by her over the years, she has developed and is offering a two-year Wisdom-based online program to train spiritual directors, which began fall 2021.

Kasey resides with her husband, Russ, daughter, Lainey, and son, Alex. She enjoys a cup of tea, reading, juggling, baking, taking art lessons, a walk through the woods, and quiet mornings with her Russian Blue cat, Birdie, on her lap.

Izzie Zimmerman

Project Manager

Izzie (she/her) has watched the unfolding of the Wisdom Tree Collective for years and is excited for the opportunity to be part of the Wisdom Tree Collective staff, supporting them with the skills she gained around organization, systems, and problem-solving during her most recent full-time job as an executive administrative assistant and program director. While she holds a master’s degree in Intercultural Studies with a background in Theological Studies, life has guided her to continue to expand her interests. Izzie recently has become a spiritual director through Liberated Together with a focus of companioning with women and non-binary folks of color. 

Izzie will help create social media content, assist the staff, and connect with those who engage with WTC's resources, contributing to the Collective's mission.

In addition to her professional roles, Izzie focuses most of her energy on her little one and as a clergy spouse. She is on a journey to weave together her varied skills and passions, eagerly exploring how they can be used to expand her capacity for supporting others. Izzie is committed to witnessing and nurturing the unfolding of her gifts, and the gifts of those around her.

Kim Working

Co-founder, Bookkeeper

Kim (he/him) brings a lifelong love of science and spirituality to Wisdom Tree Collective.

A clinical medical physicist, Kim is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic and Diagnostic Radiological Physics. In this capacity, he currently serves as the president and laboratory director at K&S Associates, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee. K&S provides calibration services and routine clinical medical physics consulting support to the radiation oncology, diagnostic radiology facilities and the health physics communities nationally and internationally.

Since he was a boy, Kim has been drawn to "God's first Bible"—getting up earlier than anyone in the house to spend time in Creation. He still does! This led to observations and recognition of patterns and insights offered through nature, which further encouraged his interest in the integration of theology and the sciences.

With his completion of the two-year Living School program at the Center for Action and Contemplation (www.cac.org). Kim's own spiritual life and his passion for teaching grew.

Besides the intersection of science and faith, he also focuses on pathways to a maturing spirituality. Through small groups, Kim companions others, especially men, in growing and deepening their awareness. After wrapping up his spiritual direction training through Wisdom Tree Collective, his own awareness, as well as his passion to companion others, continues to grow.

Currently, he draws on the wisdom of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in "trusting in the slow work of God."

Kim resides in Lebanon, Tennessee, with his wife, Mary Francis.

Russ Hitt

Composer and Visual Media Editor

Russ Hitt is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer of relaxing, ambient instrumental music and nostalgic holiday music whose fans describe as "healing," "uniquely inspirational," "haunting and soulful," and having "a depth of soul with special talent for expressing emotion."

His passion for writing and composing originates from the experience of music as a powerful agent of change, inspiration, healing, and hope as well as a catalyst and companion for celebration, nostalgia, and grief.

For more than a decade, he and his wife, Kasey, have offered the Longest Night service on or around the Winter Solstice, both inside and outside churches, in person, and online. Joining with laments from the Bible and Nature's winter invitation in the Northern Hemisphere to rest, Russ' music offers an opportunity to breathe and be while waiting for the light to return.

When not focusing on holiday music, Russ composes music for audio divina meditations, part of the Wisdom Tree Collective's School of Spiritual Direction training programs. He also edits all WTC media, including course videos. Currently, Russ is been experimenting with classical guitar as a way of healing.