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Hope Leans Forward

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An online series with Valerie Brown offering tools and practices to navigate these challenging times. 

Two consecutive Saturdays, 10:00am-11:30am Eastern Time (US & Canada) in collaboration with Woodbrooke Study Centre.

We are being pulled apart and broken-open by the global pandemic, violence, racial injustice, climate crisis, etc. This course will equip you with tools and practices to navigate these high-stress, high-anxiety times.

Based on Valerie’s latest book, Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace (Broadleaf, 2022), this course will cover skill-building, evidence-based mindfulness practice, and soul-amplifying questions grounded in Quaker faith and practice that go to the heart of discerning your life purpose, meaning, and direction and supporting you to live your best self now.

In these highly interactive sessions, we’ll explore the Buddhist Seven Factors of Awakening, including:

  • Choose bravely when conditions are uncertain and ambiguous.
  • Examine unconscious patterns that hold you back.
  • Reflect on what matters most with soul-amplifying questions.
  • Align your values with your work for a greater sense of purpose and meaning.
  • Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness.
  • Show yourself real kindness through self-compassion.

Hope Leans Forward

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An online series with Valerie Brown offering tools and practices to navigate these challenging times. 

Two consecutive Saturdays, 10:00am-11:30am Eastern Time (US & Canada) in collaboration with Woodbrooke Study Centre.

We are being pulled apart and broken-open by the global pandemic, violence, racial injustice, climate crisis, etc. This course will equip you with tools and practices to navigate these high-stress, high-anxiety times.

Based on Valerie’s latest book, Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace (Broadleaf, 2022), this course will cover skill-building, evidence-based mindfulness practice, and soul-amplifying questions grounded in Quaker faith and practice that go to the heart of discerning your life purpose, meaning, and direction and supporting you to live your best self now.

In these highly interactive sessions, we’ll explore the Buddhist Seven Factors of Awakening, including:

  • Choose bravely when conditions are uncertain and ambiguous.
  • Examine unconscious patterns that hold you back.
  • Reflect on what matters most with soul-amplifying questions.
  • Align your values with your work for a greater sense of purpose and meaning.
  • Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness.
  • Show yourself real kindness through self-compassion.

Café Darkness Online: A Virtual Writing Workshop for People of Color

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An online writing workshop for people of color with Joanne Daley, Danie “Ocean” Jackson, and K. Melchor Quick Hall

We are a community of writers of different genres and ages, committed to expanding the supportive space for people of color to write, read, and speak our stories – real imagined, poetic, and futuristic – into being. Join us online!

During this week of dedicated writing, we set specific writing intentions and work within community to compassionately move toward them. In this popular education-style workshop, we receive tips from others about how to outline a plot, write for an academic audience, or find a publisher for a memoir. Twice during the day, we will meet to share goals and read work.

The two synchronous sessions are timed to accommodate participants from across the United States in this flexible and supportive community space. Whether you are working around a work schedule or clearing your week, we welcome any writer open to sharing and learning with us as we support each other in our writing endeavors. Hope to see you at Café Darkness!

This program will be online via Zoom and will follow this daily schedule:
11:30am-12:30pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) | Body Check & Writing Intention ~ Joanne
6:30pm-8:30pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) | Open Mic & Boundless Meditation ~ Danie

Religious Education Resources and Events for June & July

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Happy summertime, Friends! In the coming weeks, children and teens will be done with school and families will shift into summer routines. I’ll be back in touch in August with ideas for looking forward to the Fall, and if you’re ready to start thinking in that direction this planning guide is still a good place to begin this summer. The resources and events offered below for June and July include Juneteenth, FGC’s “YAY!” gathering, and what’s for families and youth at our Annual Sessions. I hope you will pass them along to families and youth in your meetings and communities! [Read more…] about Religious Education Resources and Events for June & July

Religious Education Resources for March & April 2022

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A parent in my meeting shared with me that they were not sure how to talk to their children about Russia’s war on Ukraine. I recalled a line in an article that had resonated for me as a parent and educator: We don’t have to protect children from difficult feelings, but we must not leave them alone with them. The Tote Bag newsletter for March/April has many resources and events to share with meetings and families, but these ideas for supporting one another and talking about ways to create peace are perhaps the most important. [Read more…] about Religious Education Resources for March & April 2022

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