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Year-End Letter 2011

Dear Friends, It’s been a year full of wonderful invitations and good work. I’ve been welcomed into beautiful teaching opportunities all across country. And for this I am very grateful. A life’s work is a gift to keep learning, more and better. I began my work of healing trauma in 1982 and began to receive […]

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2011 Completed Calendar

February 1-2 Senate Meetings with Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT) Washington DC March 11-13 Powell House – Peace Within, Goodness Throughout workshop Old Chatham, NY March 20 New Orleans Friends Meeting – QUIT Update New Orleans, LA April 1-3 Guilford College Sexuality workshops – QUIT Update Greensboro, NC April 3-4 Durham Friends Meeting Goodness […]

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Goodness Workshop Quaker Center Ben Lomond CA

I’ll be teaching at Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA Nov 4-6. This is the Goodness workshop and it’s a good way to deeply relax and learn more of your own goodness – http://www.quakercenter.org/programs/goodness-workshop/

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QUIT Nov Consultation CANCELLED

The QUIT Consultation November 11 & 12 2011 in Durham NC has been postponed due to lack of response. Future activities will be posted.

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New Recordings

Dear Friends, I recently gave a plenary on American Torture at a national Quaker conference. This talk was recorded and is now available. It is an mp3 audio file called To Go Where There is No Light. I discuss America’s use of torture and the Quaker Initiative to End Torture’s (QUIT) call to end it. […]

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The 27th Beethoven Letter

Dear Friends, I am still here, still on the road, still at work ? not brave so much as stubborn and happy for it all. I am seeking your support to stay at work. As many of you know, my life work has been to help heal trauma as a certified massage therapist and a […]

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Writing

Meditation for Letting Go

Here is a meditation I’ve used over the years to help myself and others let go of a particular difficulty, to stop focusing on the problem, and feel ones true healthy essence. I hope it may be useful. Rest, Sugar, & Light – John Calvi I am lying comfortably and relaxed.Every muscle is resting and […]

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2010 Calendar

March 13 Meeting School QUIT! Update & Healing Rindge NH April 17-19  Lake Forest Friends Mtg  Retreat Leader Lake Forest IL June 20-24 Pendle Hill  Washed in Light by Tender Wallingford PA July 4-10 FGC Abandon All Weariness QUIT  Bowling Green OH July 16 VT People with AIDS Coalition  Deep Relaxation   Stowe VT July […]

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On The Road 2010: Work Travel West

Friday 9/10 – Preparations Towards the West In a few days, I will leave Putney, VT to drive across country to host the 4th Quaker Initiative to End Torture- QUIT at Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA September 24-26. I would very much appreciate it if you could during this time hold this effort in […]

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A Lecture on Torture I Gave Is on TV

I just wanted to let you know that a talk I gave to Burlington Friends Meeting in VT made it’s way on to community TV. This is a QUIT Update (QUIT – The Quaker Initiative to End Torture). There are no explicit horror stories here about torture, only the questions about our democracy since American […]