Jan 30 Orlando Friend Meeting reading books 1 & 2 Orlando FL Feb 6 Gainesville Friends Meeting healing workshop Gainesville FL April 5 Community College of VT – Intercultural – Brattleboro VT April 10 Putney Friends Mtg – History of Released Friends Putney VT May 20-22 Pendle Hill GOODNESS workshop Wallingford PA July 3-9 […]
Author: John Calvi
Year-End Letter 2016
Dear Friends, This annual letter shares news of my work travels this past year. It’s also a reminder that I live primarily by gifts. Some of you have already been so kind to send a Fall gift and I am especially grateful for this. Working mainly by invitation and living mostly by gifts is a […]
The 32nd Beethoven Letter
Dear Friends, There is a burden to compassionate work and it is simply this – it will break your heart and we must let this happen. We must surrender and melt until all boundaries are gone and we come to know that we really and truly are all part of one another. The pain and […]
2015 Calendar
Feb 14 NEYM Young Friends Good Touch Wellesley MA March 2 Community College of VT Gay Intercultural Brattleboro VT Mar 26 – 27 Toronto Friends Mtg – Workshops Toronto Ontario April 17 Guilford College QLSP, Friendship Mtg Greensboro NC Apr 18-19 Durham Frds Congolese Tortured Refugees Durham NC April 21-27 Second book work […]
Year-End Letter 2015
Dear Friends, I am preparing for my last work trips of 2015 as I write this. It’s been a busy and wonderful year as my calendar shows- a dozen trips to work in 8 states and provinces to work with Congolese torture survivors, people with AIDS, abuse survivors, among other life- wounded people. Plus I’ve […]
The 31st Beethoven Letter
Dear Friends, Good work continues and I am well used still, after all these years. I have just returned from work with tortured refugees in North Carolina, a stop in Texas for final edits on my 2nd book due out next month, and soon will teach near Boston. (new book – How Far Have You […]
John Calvi May 29-31 2015 Pendle Hill
Maybe you’ve been saying I’m going to do a John Calvi workshop one of these days. Well, I’ve been teaching and touching as a Quaker healer for over three decades. How much longer do you think you’ll have the chance? It’s not like either of us are getting any younger! Pendle Hill May 29-31 2015An […]
My travel work calendar for 2015 is taking shape. The phone rings and a new trip is created. Working by invitation and living mainly on gifts is now going into 32 years! Hope to see you! John Calvi’s partial incomplete 2015 Calendar February 14 New England Yearly Meeting Young Friends – high school retreat Good […]
2014 Calendar
March 14 –16 Powell House massage, energy Old Chatham NY April 17-20 South Central Yearly Meeting – Workshops Bruceville TX April 22 – 29 Second book work week Shelly Angel Richardson TX May 2-4 Atlanta Friends Meeting- workshops readings Atlanta GA May 30 –June 1 Pendle Hill GOODNESS Workshop Wallingford PA June 29 – July […]
Undoing the Damage of Violence
Quakers aren’t just anti-violence. Much of our work is in fact pro-healing. John Calvi, a renowned Quaker healer talks about why healing work is so incredibly essential. Recorded by QuakerSpeakLength: 4:20