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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Friends, A good year of teaching and hands-on work is ending. I am closing in on 30 years of traveling since beginning my healing work in 1982. This year was another layer of time with wonderful invitations to teach about healing from trauma, avoiding burnout during hard work, and the on going task of […]
Dear All, Thank you for all your notes and for holding the QUIT conference in the Light. The conference was excellent! All 4 presenters outdid themselves in presenting current information from their fields. Terry Kupers, author of Prison Madness, gave us clear information about how the use of torture in American prisons results in deformed […]
I’ve a box full of maps. Going through the box to find maps I might use, I find odd sorts of things. Here are 5 postcards bought in Spain and one written out to me but unsent- Marshall had some work in Salamanca Spain. And there’s a map of the solar system- now that’s a […]
Dear Friends, There is a particular discipline that comes with my duel works of healing trauma and ending torture. It is a discipline of attending to the immediate particulars while keeping an eye on the far horizon. While attending to the moment of right now, I keep in mind the time to come and bridging […]
All day I’ve felt a bit sad. I’ve been remembering the arc of AIDS in my life, what I usually think of as the AIDS WARS. I remember hearing a little something in August of 83, an article in Time magazine perhaps, about gay men getting cancer in San Francisco and New York. I was […]
February 20 – 22 Powell House Body as Temple for Spiritual Work Old Chatham, NY Mar 12-13 Quaker Initiative to End Torture Mtg Wash, DC March 28 Mountain View Meeting of Quakers- Healing Denver, CO Mar 29 CO Regional Gathering of Quakers- Speaker Denver, CO April 24-26 Woolman Hill Abandon All Weariness / Spiritual […]
Dear Friends, 2009 has been a full and wonderful year of travel work following my 2008 sabbatical. I worked with 24 groups in 12 states. From planning meetings for The Quaker Initiative to End Torture- QUIT in DC to the main plenary at North Pacific Yearly Meeting in Montana to the Dragonfly Transitions young […]