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Welcome to Pendle Hill
Summer is an inviting time to come to Pendle Hill. Enjoy the beauty of our trees, the richness of our meetings for learning, the hospitality of our community, and the bounty of our garden and kitchen.
We offer a wealth of courses, weekend workshops, spiritual retreats, and Arts and Spirituality programs – to awaken your creativity, stimulate your mind, refresh your spirit, and nourish your body. We invite young adults to apply to our popular seven-week Young Adult Leadership Development program.
We again offer our six-week Summer Term, a Pendle Hill residential student experience like our ten-week terms during the academic year. As a Summer Term resident, you may take as many summer courses and retreats as you want, consult weekly with a spiritual nurturer, and participate in the daily worship and work of the community.
John J. Meyer
Coordinator of Extended Educational Programs
June 22-26, 2008
Walking with Gandhi
A workshop with Chris Moore-Backman
Mohandas Gandhi is the most oft-cited teacher and practitioner of nonviolent resistance. But do we actually understand the essence of his profound teaching and example? Do we truly appreciate the great demands and even greater promise of nonviolence? Join us in a workshop experience designed to invite the mahatma down from his pedestal, so we can get busy with the nuts and bolts of real-life nonviolent transformation.
Chris Moore-Backman is a member of San Francisco Friends Meeting (CA), currently living in Douglas (AZ), with his wife Carin and daughter Isa. Chris' own experiments with nonviolence have included human rights accompaniment in Colombia, tax resistance, veganism, and car-free living. He leads workshops on the teachings of Gandhi as they relate to our current U.S. context, and he is actively seeking fellow Gandhians to co-create a U.S.-based spiritual community of nonviolent resistance.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
June 22-26, 2008
Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World
A Mindfulness Course for Educators with Richard Brady and Wynne Kinder
How can we approach our work as educators from a place of inner peace and convey that peace to our students? Drawing on several contemplative traditions, instructional approaches, and research findings, we will share a variety of meditative practices and techniques, including Zen, vipassana and guided meditation, and mindful movements. Some of these techniques enhance well being; others promote deep connection with oneself, with others, and with the world. We will explore how we might use these practices in our school setting and hear from participants who are already integrating meditation and mindful movement practices into their lives and classrooms.
Richard Brady is a mindfulness educator and school consultant, following a 34-year career as a mathematics teacher at Sidwell Friends School. He has given numerous workshops for educators on mindfulness practice and contemplative education at Pendle Hill and at national conferences. A Buddhist, he is a founding member of the Washington Mindfulness Community and the Mindfulness in Education Network.
Wynne Kinder ’s 17-year career teaching in private and inner-city public schools prepared her for teaching Kinder Associates’ Wellness Works in Schools. She has twelve years of personal practice and training in Mindful Yoga, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Boys Town - Teaching Social Skills to Youth, YogaEd, and Lineage Project’s Social Action Teacher Training. Most recently, Wynne and Kinder Associates have published PEACE Work, a K-12 curriculum designed to encourage self-awareness, self-regulation, and social connection.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
June 27-29, 2008
Qi Gong: Powerful, Simple Self-Care
A weekend with Kevin D. Greene
Learn simple self-care techniques that can be performed while seated, standing, or simply waiting. Regular Qi cultivation reduces pain and stress, enhances circulation, and empowers spirit. By learning to link our minds with our breath and movement, we melt away layers of blockage to our inner senses and outer experiences of joy. Qi Gong is compatible with any spiritual tradition that embraces the healing of body, mind, and spirit.
Kevin D. Greene is a priest of Obatala in the Lukumi Yoruba tradition, certified massage therapist of 18 years, diviner/reader, consultant, and facilitator. In 1996 he created the Alternative and Complementary Therapies Program at ActionAIDS, a Philadelphia non-profit organization serving people with AIDS and HIV. A student of Qi Gong and Tai Chi since 1996, Kevin has cultivated a daily practice of Qi Gong and has been able to share his personal experience in surviving a life-threatening illness by incorporating this practice into a holistic health care program.
$275/shared room; $330/private room; $200/commuter
June 29-July 3, 2008
Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, Social Change . . .
A workshop with Jeremy Taylor
Using group projective dreamwork, celebrated dreamworker Jeremy Taylor will help us experience the meaning of our dreams. Find the universal in the particular and the political in the personal by drawing on the myths and sacred narratives of the world and on archetypes – the symbols that arise spontaneously from our own psyches and simultaneously surround and support us. Our dreams reflect the deepest truths about our interior lives in exquisite symbolic detail. They also reflect the society and culture we inhabit in the same elaborate, poignant, and accurate way. Jeremy will explore the connection between our dream selves, our waking selves, and the direction we're moving in as a society.
Jeremy Taylor, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for over thirty years. Past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, he combines spiritual values with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. Jeremy brings dream work to a wide range of venues, from corporate, medical, and academic settings to prisons and mental health facilities. His popular books include Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams, and the Symbolism of Waking Life.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
See recommended readings for this course
June 29-July 3, 2008
Discoveries in Paper and Clay
A workshop with Joyce Nagata
Explore the beauty of making simple clay pinch pots, from quiet bowls and burnished rattles to animals and whistles. Enjoy the simplicity of making paper that can become complex with layers of imagery and word. Every soul has a creative spirit, and this class will allow your muse to find its way.
Joyce Nagata is a studio potter living and working in Westtown (PA). She discovered the poetry of making pottery as an apprentice in Japan. After a decade of teaching art to college students, she returned to the rhythm of making pots for everyday use in her home studio. Spending fifteen years as a potter, Joyce recently returned to teaching clay at Westtown Friends School.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 6-10, 2008
Sound-tracking Our Lives
A workshop with David Roth
Is music necessary? Would the human spirit suffer without it? If you answer “yes” to either (or both) of these questions, here’s your opportunity to dive into the “express” business of song creation. This all-levels gathering is geared towards those who are new to writing words and music, those already well-experienced, and anyone somewhere in between who would like to strip down their own process a bit by looking through a different lens at this wondrous art form.
This workshop is short, so we won’t have time for the inner critic that might laugh, edit, or say “you can’t do this.” We’ll write every day, brainstorm compelling individual themes, examine different song elements, engage in lively dialogue and exercises on topics like sculpting inspiration, developing universal truths from personal stories, and being honest. We’ll also have fun in a safe, playful, supportive, permissive, and powerful environment, and come away from the workshop with our own new one-of-a-kind songs that no one else on earth could express in exactly the same way.
David Roth is a singer, songwriter, recording artist, and instructor whose resume includes top honors at two of the country’s premier songwriter festival competitions – Kerrville (TX) and Falcon Ridge (NY). The Chicago native’s songs have found their way to Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, several Chicken Soup for the Soul books, ten CDs, and two songbooks. His teaching has taken him to countless camps, conferences, trainings, and retreat centers around the country. See more at www.davidrothmusic.com.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 7-11, 2008
Beyond Diversity 101
An intensive weeklong workshop with Niyonu D. Spann and assistant, Lisa Graustein
(With a special Training for Trainers option described below*)
Diversity trainings have tended to have one thing in common: a driving force of guilt and blame. We believe that if the goal is to become a more whole society, such trainings are highly ineffective. So how do we move forward? Beyond Diversity 101 is grounded in the belief that we can, in fact, abolish systematic discrimination within and without. It requires recognizing, taking responsibility, shifting mindsets while continually building and utilizing effective skills. It requires Heartwork!
Beyond Diversity 101 is for all who choose to transform systems of separation and power-over. It is for those who want to work toward wholeness ~ within and without.
Sessions will include:
- Understanding the dynamics of difference and power;
- Moving beyond the oppressor/victim framework;
- A model for transformation – real change within, real change without;
- Applications for continuing work at home;
- Understanding how and why you get stuck as a facilitator; and
- Recognizing the relationship between our spiritual lives and our work toward social justice.
Niyonu D. Spann has conducted diversity workshops for over 20 years. She designed and began facilitating BD101 in 1999. Niyonu served as Dean of Pendle Hill from 2004 to 2007. She founded TrV Consulting and Tribe 1, a performance group offering songs of transformation. She served as Executive Director of the National Green Circle Program, a human relations program. Beyond Diversity 101 has been sponsored by Friends General Conference and Northern Yearly Meeting and offered publicly for four years.
Lisa Graustein is a high school teacher and former Young Friends Coordinator for New England Yearly Meeting. She has worked with many area non-profits on issues of school diversity and safety, in addition to working as a freelance teacher-trainer and artist. Lisa has past experience serving as a BD101 Intern and Assistant Facilitator.
$540/double room ▪ $635/single room ▪ $375/commuter
Contact John Meyer regarding scholarships johnm@pendlehill.org
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend discount. Learn more here
This 5-day intensive takes place as a part of the 10-day Training for Trainers. Participants completing this first week may continue through July 16 to complete the Training for Trainers course for an additional $615/shared room; $740/private room; or $460/commuter. For more information about the Training for Trainers, see below or contact Niyonu directly: Niyonu@aol.com.
July 7-16, 2008
Beyond Diversity 101: Training for Trainers
A workshop with Niyonu D. Spann
How do we as facilitators, trainers, managers, or teachers design workshops that contribute to breaking the cycles of oppression and injustice? This ten-day training for trainers is designed for those who seek to increase their knowledge, self-understanding and skill to be able to create an environment in which others can move beyond guilt, blame and inaction toward wholeness. It is open only to those who have completed at least one (and preferably more than one) five-day intensive Beyond Diversity 101 (BD101) training.
This training will be devoted largely to increasing self-awareness – how we work with, parallel, resist, collude with, hide from, and help advance the very systems with which we are working. It will involve:
- practice in workshop design and facilitation;
- interactive group learning, including movement and bodywork;
- experiencing and studying training tools (films, articles, games and activities); and
- direct teaching of key concepts, frameworks and spiritual principles in which the BD101 approach is centered.
Come away with a thorough grounding in the exercises and techniques used in the five-day intensive BD101 and a clear assessment of your own strengths and weaknesses in doing this work.
Niyonu D. Spann served as the dean of Pendle Hill from 2004 through the end of 2007. She has been leading diversity trainings for over 20 years. She founded TrV Consulting and Tribe 1, a performance group offering songs of transformation. Niyonu is currently developing a new non-profit called 4 Circles Beyond, Inc. under which future BD101 workshops will be conducted. Beyond Diversity 101 has been sponsored by Friends General Conference, the Tatamagouche and Kirkridge conference centers, and Northern Yearly Meeting.
Limited to 25
$1165/shared room; $1375/private room; $835/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 11-13, 2008
Expanding Capacity for Compassionate, Non-Violent Communication
A weekend with Bonalyn Mosteller
Many of us care deeply about promoting non-violence in the world; yet we frequently find ourselves prone to negative judgments, easy irritation, and caring more about our own point of view than reaching a collaborative solution. It doesn’t work to tell ourselves to “be more loving” or less “violent.” This workshop will support change at the “heart” and experiential levels. We will introduce and practice skills based on Marshall Rosenberg’s non-violent communication work, inner inquiry methods associated with Hameed Almaas’ Diamond Heart work, and others. These approaches will help us access less conscious beliefs that block our ability to be more compassionate and increase our capacity to be loving, patient people with new abilities to value differences in others.
Bonalyn Mosteller, Ed.D., is a management and organizational development consultant and executive coach. For over a decade she has been a student of Diamond Approach, which focuses on the synthesis of psychology and spirituality. A Quaker, Bonalyn is a member of Radnor Monthly Meeting (PA), coordinator of Friends Board Consulting, and formerly clerk of the Making New Friends Initiative of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
$275/shared room; $330/private room; $200/commuter
See recommended readings for this course
July 11-13, 2008
Spiritual Awakening through Authentic Movement
A weekend with Sara Workeneh
“Authentic Movement” is a profoundly simple form of movement exploration that provides an opportunity for spiritual growth and healing. In the safe, non-judgmental presence of a “witness,” the “mover” waits in silence, tuning out external stimuli and listening deeply within, then moves in response to inner impulses, images, sensations, and memories. In this workshop for adult dancers and nondancers of all ages, we will seek an increased awareness and comfort in our bodies and a deep sense of well-being. People new to movement are welcome and will find this a gentle experience. This may be the awakening experience you have been looking or longing for.
Sara Workeneh is a registered dance movement therapist and counselor who has worked since 1989 in clinical settings and private practice. She currently practices at Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore (MD). She has presented many Authentic Movement workshops at Pendle Hill and at local and national conferences.
$275/shared room; $330/private room; $200/commuter
July 13-17, 2008
Patterns of Wholeness: Exploring the Art of Mosaic
A workshop with Carol Sexton
Working with bits and pieces of glass and ceramic tile, stone, shells, beach glass, chipped plates, and more, we will explore ways to arrange mosaic pieces into harmonious patterns, creating something new and beautiful out of broken fragments and discarded materials. As we learn hands-on mosaic techniques, we will also reflect on how mosaic art can be a metaphor for spiritual themes in our own lives. Inspiration for our work will come from the history of ancient and medieval mosaic arts as well as contemporary examples of mosaic beautifying urban public spaces in Philadelphia . Students in this course can expect to complete one or more small projects and gain an understanding of the materials and methods involved in completing a larger project.
Carol Sexton is Pendle Hill's core teacher in Arts and Spirituality. She has extensive experience in teaching, campus ministry, spiritual direction, retreat facilitation, studio art, graphic design, and service to the Quaker community. She served from 2002 to 2005 as campus ministry associate for spiritual formation at Earlham College and has led retreats on diverse themes, including creating journals and walking the labyrinth. A graduate of the Earlham School of Religion, Carol also earned degrees in Studio Art and Art Education. She is a member of Clear Creek Monthly Meeting, Richmond (IN).
$565/shared room; $660/private room; $400/commuter (includes materials fee)
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
Spiritual Retreats with Nancy Bieber
Come and refresh your spirit. Each retreat includes one-on-one spiritual direction with Nancy Bieber, extended time for individual reflection, and group learning and sharing. Let summer be your time for personal renewal and deepening.
July 13-17, 2008
Spiritual Discernment: Noticing God’s Nudges
Spiritual discernment involves listening for guidance from God so we can make decisions and choose ways of living in harmony with God. In this retreat, we will focus on noticing these spiritual “nudges” and on developing practices of listening discernment for our daily lives. If you have a situation needing discernment in your life, please bring this concern with you to the retreat.
Limited to 12 for each retreat.
$635 per person per retreat
(includes private room and board)
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 20-24, 2008
Practicing Prayer Today: An Invitation
Prayer, one writer says, is paying attention; another describes it as conversation with God. During this retreat, we will explore what lies at the heart of prayer and broaden our understanding of the richness available to us. Together we will experience different forms of prayer and find those which speak uniquely to us. We will also look at how our daily lives can nurture or hinder these practices. Join with other seekers in building a rhythm of prayerfulness into our lives.
Nancy Bieber is a spiritual director and retreat leader. A graduate of Shalem Institute, she has been a core teacher with the School of the Spirit's Spiritual Nurturer program, is on the teaching staff of Oasis Ministries, and teaches about prayer at Lancaster Theological Seminary. A member of Lancaster Monthly Meeting (PA), she holds a deep concern for the spiritual vitality of individuals and communities today. Nancy enjoys teaching, gardening, traveling, and spending time with her grandchildren.
Limited to 12 for each retreat.
$635 per person per retreat
(includes private room and board)
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 19, 2008
Putting Love into Leadership
A day workshop with Daniel Caron
We share basic human needs for safety, connection, trust, and belonging. Creating an environment in which all feel safe, connected, trusting, and included is at the heart of effective leadership. Learn and practice how to foster that environment with coworkers, family, and friends—even with challenging people in difficult situations. This daylong workshop grounded in the concepts of Original Play will improve your interactions, enhance your service, and develop your leadership capabilities.
Daniel Caron, MS, CAGS, has worked in higher education, wellness, counseling, and teaching. He left his university career shortly after 9/11 to assist people caught in the stress and struggles of unproductive daily interactions. He facilitates Original Play workshops (see www.originalplay.org), which have helped thousands of people improve their interactions for leadership, learning, and living. He travels across North America and internationally showing businesses, colleges, and conferences how to bring people together and keep them connected.
$50 includes lunch
July 20-24, 2008
Deep Calling Deep: Imaging Your Life Story
A workshop with June-Etta Chenard
"The function of the creative process is to identify, construct and interpret the maps of our life journeys, to use language and symbol as a means of orientation, as a mythological apparatus for the guidance of the individual and for the community. . .
— John Holt, Artists in Mind
In an inspiring and healing environment, we will seek to deepen the images of our eyes, hands, and hearts, exploring our life stories through art. Our meditative focus can help us identify insightful images of our life journeys, construct symbolic collages, and share our interpretations of these life maps. We will explore color, non-toxic transfer of images, use of symbols, our personal photos, beautiful unique papers — many of them Japanese, and much more. During worship-based sharing, participants will have opportunities to interpret their own work.
June-Etta Chenard is a member of Canadian Yearly Meeting and former recipient of an Elizabeth Ann Bogert Grant for art. She is a social commentary artist working with paper. She teaches and shows her work in Canada and the United States.
$555/shared room; $650/private room; $390/commuter (includes materials fee).
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 20-24, 2008
Intensive Journal® Program for Personal/Spiritual Growth
A workshop with Vic Kryston
Learn this internationally recognized integrated system of journal writing, meditation, and reflection to connect with the many facets of your life. Created by Ira Progoff, Ph.D., a recognized pioneer in journal writing methods, this workshop can help you gain awareness about personal relationships, career, health, and important events. Explore dreams and imagery. Spiritual exercises are a core part of the method. The “Intensive Journal” method can help you develop a foundation for future decisions, a tool for self-discovery and creativity to use throughout your life. Our leader will guide you step-by-step through the process in privacy and a progressively deepening atmosphere. To learn more see www.intensivejournal.org.
Vic Kryston is a certified leader in the Intensive Journal method and has conducted workshops for twenty years, including several programs at Goose Creek Friends Meeting in Northern Virginia, where he is a member. Vic is an adjunct professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 25-27, 2008
Inquirers’ Weekend: An Introduction to Basic Quakerism
Eileen Flanagan and Barry Scott
Ready to take a closer look at Quakerism? Join fellow seekers and experienced Friends for a deeper grounding in the basics of Quaker faith and practice and how they connect with your spiritual journey. In the relaxed atmosphere of Pendle Hill, there will be opportunities for worship, discussion, sharing, and questions. We welcome attenders, new members, long-time Friends seeking a fresh start, and anyone interested in a solid introduction to Quakerism.
Eileen Flanagan is a writer and teacher whose work examines how to practice spiritual principles in the midst of daily life. For three years she taught "Discerning Our Calls" for the Pendle Hill Resident Study Program and continues to offer workshops on topics related to Quakerism. She is the author of Listen with Your Heart: Seeking the Sacred in Romantic Love and a forthcoming book entitled The Wisdom to Know the Difference. She blogs at http://www.imperfectserenity.com and is the assistant clerk of Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting.
Barry Scott is a scientist who advocates for worker health and safety. He seeks to live into a Blessed community in the Religious Society of Friends and works to that end at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (PA), where he is a member. He also enjoys finding spirit at the movies and has shared what he’s found in workshops he’s led at his meeting and Friends General Conference summer gathering.
$275/shared room; $330/private room; $200/commuter
July 25-27, 2008
The Courage to Lead
A workshop with Judy Sorum Brown
This renewal retreat extends a special invitation to educators who hold formal or informal leadership roles, or who might wish to take up leadership roles in the years ahead. Also welcome are those from fields outside education who are interested in renewal in order to better serve as leaders in the fields they care about. The retreat will create a space for us to reconnect with the passion that brought us to our profession in the first place and to remind us of our birthright gifts in that calling. Using the circle of trust practices of Parker Palmer, we will focus on reflective and interactive experiences that clear away the clutter and renew our sense of calling.
Judy Sorum Brown is an educator, poet, and writer whose work revolves around the themes of dialogue, leadership, reflective practice, and service. She teaches leadership for the public good at the University of Maryland , where she is also a Senior Fellow of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and has long been part of the Courage to Teach community associated with Parker Palmer. She is a member of Adelphi Monthly Meeting (MD).
Parker Palmer's writings are available from the Pendle Hill Bookstore
$275/shared room; $330/private room; $200/commuter
July 27-31, 2008
Bless This Body: Nurturing Right Relationship From Within
A retreat with Valerie Brown (Inder Kaur)
Through mindfulness meditation and gentle, mindful Kundalini yoga, we open to the fullness of our body and mind. Experience Buddhist-inspired sitting, walking, and eating meditation to slow down, welcome new habits, and cultivate greater awareness. Together we create a safe environment to promote personal and societal transformation through spiritual practices of praying, chanting, journaling, small group discussion, and ample periods of guided deep relaxation. Re-discover a heart-centered approach to life, a peaceful mind, and your own inner wisdom. Return home renewed, rested, and feeling more alive and aware with new tools to thrive in stressful times.
Valerie Brown (Inder Kaur) is a certified teacher of Kundalini yoga and mindfulness meditation, trained in holistic spirituality, and a founding member of Old Path Sangha, a Buddhist community in New Hope (PA). She is a member of Solebury Monthly Meeting. She authored the Pendle Hill pamphlet The Mindful Quaker: A Brief Introduction to Buddhist Wisdom for Friends (October 2006) and is at work on another manuscript on the theme of this retreat.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
July 27-31, 2008
Make Your Spirit Visible through Painting
A workshop with Helen David Brancato
Embark on an inner journey of self-discovery and find your passion and authenticity through automatic painting. Through guided sessions of meditation, experience the sheer joy of painting and the wonder of discovery and risk. With creativity as catalyst, we will create spontaneous images revealing our energy and vulnerability – giving us new ways of seeing our inner landscapes. We will take time to reflect and journal about our imagery.
Helen David Brancato is a painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose work is exhibited professionally and appears in numerous magazines. She teaches studio art at Villanova University. She collaborated with Henri Nouwen in the illustration of his book Walk with Jesus, and with Evelyn Mattern on Why Not Become Fire? and most recently, Ordinary Places/Sacred Spaces.
Limited to 20
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
August 3-7, 2008
Awakening Imagination for Transformation
A workshop with Hector Aristizabal
In our culture, imagination has given way to fantasy. Fantasy is passive entertainment, while imagination excites our vision for engaging the world and changing it. This dynamic experiential workshop is for those who see drama and the creative arts as tools for personal and social transformation. Using methods of the Theater of the Oppressed developed by Brazilian dramatic activist Augusto Boal, traditional storytelling, mask-making, drumming, improvisational drama, creative ritual and other dynamic forms, we will open our imaginations to new possibilities and expand our capacity for transforming ourselves and our world.
Death threats forced human rights activist Hector Aristizabal to leave his native Colombia for California in 1989. With an MA in psychology and a degree as a marriage and family therapist, Hector is also a theater director, actor, and practitioner of the Theater of the Oppressed. He has worked with at-risk youth as a therapist, artist, and community organizer and has developed original theater work with special constituencies under grants from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the California Arts Council, and others. He is currently the clinical director and co-founder of CITYSCAPE, an art therapy program. Hector travels extensively, offering workshops in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba and India.
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
August 3-7, 2008
Telling Our Stories
A workshop with Allan Brick
Every person carries personal stories, and, once one’s narrative voice is liberated, these stories come forth and tell themselves. Through enabling exercises, we will learn how to listen more deeply to each other and thus learn to listen more deeply to ourselves. We will discover that good writing comes from the authority of each person’s released narrative voice, and that everyone, at whatever stage as a “writer” or “non-writer,” is potentially a strong and uniquely interesting writer. Come ready to listen, share, and release your own unique stories.
Allan Brick taught memoir writing during his thirty years as a professor of English at Hunter College and has led many memoir-writing workshops at Friends General Conference summer gatherings. A graduate of Haverford with a doctorate from Yale, he was first an academic writer, turning in recent years to writing memoir and poetry. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Allan worked with the American Friends Service Committee and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He recently published Growing Pains, a collection of his poetry. Allan is a member of Kendal Monthly Meeting (PA).
$540/shared room; $635/private room; $375/commuter
This course qualifies for our Bring a Friend Discount. Learn more here
