The Goodness Workshop
with John Calvi
Bring a friend and you will both receive a $100 discount!
Beyond self-acceptance and self-esteem is that sense of our goodness. This is both our core and our bridge with the Divine. A clear sense of our own goodness has important implications for our own healing, helping others, and deeper seeking in our everyday spiritual life. We’ll have John’s stories to keep us laughing, a slow tender tone to rest our busy lives and weary bodies, and oodles of grace because it’s the best way to do the work of seeking. The Goodness workshop is a slow quiet time where any sharing is by choice and the depth is chosen individually. Those who are journaling about their own lives will find more paths inward. Those wanting to enjoy calm and quiet will have plenty to take in. Those doing deep seeking to understand their past can chose that path. Mapping the cross-roads of our spiritual autobiography, considering the rules of life we try to keep, listing the names of our beloveds and watching for where trust lives in relationship, we’ll review our lives engaging trust, hope, and wonder. We’ll also learn simple clothes-on massage and a simple beginning energy work form for deep relaxation to calm body and thinking.
Who is this program for? Anyone feeling the stresses and wounds of life can find release from weariness in this gentle program. No special skills in massage or energy work are needed, and all abilities are welcome. Quaker Center is equipped to serve visitors who have physical disabilities, and all interested persons are encouraged to attend. It is not necessary to be a Quaker or to know about Quaker-ism to participate fully in this program.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER
JOHN CALVI is a massage therapist specializing in trauma. He’s also a Quaker healer with a gift for releasing physical and emotional pain following trauma. John returns to Quaker Center where he led the 1993 Year End Retreat and taught Healing Life Wounds in 1994, 1996, and 1999 and Restoration, Preparation and New Light in 2009. John has 30 years of experience working with survivors of sexual abuse, tortured refugees, and people with AIDS.
