Program Schedule

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2008 Programs

Feb 29-Mar 2
Opening Hearts and Minds: Speaking Truth to Power
Using words as nonviolent direct action when listening is required but is not enough.
Bonnie Tinker and Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod
CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED

Mar 28-30
Interfaith Peacemaking
Building bridges of understanding, deepening spiritual connection, cooperating for peace and justice.
Anthony Manousos, Rabbi Pamela Frydman, and Saafa Ibrahim

April 11-13
Redwood Rainforest Ecology & Metaphor
Finding the Divine among the redwoods.
David Forbes, Margaret Willits

June 15-22
Quaker Camp
Our week for friends entering 5th through 7th grades.
Quaker Center staff and others

July 12-20
Quaker Service Camp
Fun and service for friends entering 8th through 10th grades.
Quaker Center staff and others

Aug 3-8
Senior Camp
New program! A camper-planned week for youth entering 11th grade through the first year post-high school.
Campers and Quaker Center staff

Aug 8-12
The Annual Community Work Camp
New time! Service, through Spirit, in community.
David Forbes and Quaker Center staff

Aug 15-17
Rise Up Singing!
A weekend of music for everyone with the creators of Rise Up Singing.
Peter and Annie Blood-Patterson

Sept. 19-21
The Five Dynamics of Spiritual Growth
Activating your spiritual energy into a clearer and deeper relationship with yourself, with others, with work, and with play. Based on the renowned "Spherical Dynamics" program.
Michael Sturm

Sept. 26-28
The Alternatives to Violence Program
Quaker Center's annual offering of the Basic Training Workshop.
AVP California staff

Oct 24-26
Storytelling as a Way of Spiritual Nurture
Storytelling skills for teachers, first day school teachers, and others providing spiritual nurture.
Karen Davidson Olson

Oct 31-Nov 2
Walking Lightly on the Earth
Earthcare as a spiritual discipline.
Leaders to be announced

Nov 14-16
Nontheism: Can Goodness Replace God in Quaker Theology?
Living the Quaker witness without a belief in God.
Brian Vura-Weis and others.

Dec 5-7
Walt Whitman and the Universal Light
Friends' testimonies and intentional living as expressed in Leaves of Grass and in Whitman's prose and letters.
Jacob Stone

Dec 27-Jan 1, 2009
The Annual Year End Retreat
Our annual retreat celebrating the old and new years in good company
Leader to be announced