Ben Lomond Quaker Center is a self-service conference and retreat center with simple, comfortable accommodations, modestly priced. It is a sacred place for friends to gather, offering:
- Group rentals
- Personal retreats
- Our own schedule of Quaker Center programs focused on Quakerism, spiritual growth, and social justice.
- A residential internship in non-profit management
- A permanent outdoor labyrinth available to the public
Quaker Center extends a special hand of support to low-income community groups working for peace, social justice, race and gender equality, and care and reclamation of the environment.
We are located on 80 acres of redwood forest, two hours south of San Francisco and 20 minutes outside of Santa Cruz.
The Ben Lomond Quaker Center is a non-profit corporation, run by a volunteer Board of Directors, and affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends. Information about opportunities for service and support is here.
We welcome visitors, but we ask that you call first so that we can protect the privacy of our guests. Please leave your pets at home when you visit.
QUAKER CENTER NEWS:
- The search for new Director(s) has begun – see this and other job postings here.
- View our 2010 program schedule here; links have just been posted to register for “Gender, the Search for Self, and the Search for Identity,” “Clerking and Friends Business Practices,” and “The Quiet Eye: Photography as a Spiritual Discipline”
- We’re just beginning an exciting multi-year initiative to protect the Quaker Center environment – check out the details here.
- Check out our new “Bulletin Board” page under Group Rentals for a sampling of the diverse groups that are coming to Quaker Center in the next few months.
- We are now taking applications for our next residential intern, to begin service early in 2011.
- Breaking news: A rental partner has just canceled FIVE weekends in the Redwood Lodge in 2010 and 2011 - contact us if you think your group might be able to use one!
