Workshops open to adults only (highschool only with permission)

When was the last time your entire body relaxed, you were free of worry, and you really laughed? Wouldn't it be great to have all this 5 mornings in a row? Learning simple energy work, massage, and meditation will deliver this gift of grace. All abilities welcome. Oodles of grace.

Quiet retreat. Explore and experience blessing. Expect silent worship, journaling, artistic expression, being with Nature and blessing God, people, animals and each other. Bring your journal, artistic materials and maybe your running shoes.

“Milk for Babes and Meat for Strong Men...”, presents James Nayler’s final, mature explication of what salvation really is, its cost, and the reward of leaving behind all self-will and deception. We will approach Nayler's Quaker mysticism by reading together and worship-sharing centered on this 30 page paper.

Our Quaker beliefs, testimonies and practices contain challenges and insights for how we can live as a family and how we can nurture our children. In a worshipful atmosphere, we will explore the support and guidance Quakerism can provide us as we discuss the specific concerns that we have for our families.

The Quaker Peace Testimony unites most Friends. Often Friends do not question whether specific actions to build peace are in line with Quaker values. The workshop will challenge Friends to think more deeply about the relationship between Quaker values and post-conflict work using the framework used in transformative mediation as a starting point.

We’ll discuss the changing meanings of sexuality in mid and later life as we confront our changing bodies, changing relationships and changing lives. In a safe environment, we’ll review the facts, consider our values, examine the myths and create a vision of sexuality that fits our lives today.

This hands-on workshop grapples with the skills and strategies needed to revitalize or rebuild a First Day School. We'll explore ways to attract new families and jump start a program when children start attending. We'll look beyond the Sunday School model to fresh alternatives that may work better for busy families.

Geoff Garver, one of the authors of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, will lead Friends in examining the science, economics, spirituality, and ethics that underlie the global economy as it is now and as it could be with a more Earth-conscious approach.

Life’s most significant meanings are revealed by the personal tale, concretely remembered, vividly told. We will write our own memories and read them to each other, thus listening more deeply to each other and to ourselves. Text: Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories (Norton).

Douglas Steere wrote, “To listen another's soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another...” We will explore how we can teach and practice the process of clearness to weave community and welcome each soul.