Take a look at the 2025
program calendar here.
Inner Life, Inner Light
An in-person program with Will Meecham, MD
March 21-23, 2025
Every day, we feel the warm aliveness of the human body. During silent worship, we feel the loving mystery of the Divine Light. In this retreat, we’ll strengthen the connections between these two experiences, using imagery, community, silence and shared inquiry.
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Will Meecham is a former physician, trauma survivor, accidental mystic, and long time meditator. His educational background includes studies in ecology, biophysics, neuroscience, ophthalmology, and reconstructive surgery. In 1987, while in the thick of medical training, he began Quaker Worship to explore connections between spirituality and science. After health problems prematurely ended his surgical career, he devoted decades to developing an embodied spiritual practice he calls ‘Mindful Biology’ (mindfulbiology.org).
The Meeting for Worship
An online program series
Wednesdays, April 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025
with Nico Wright and others
Members of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Friends or Quakers) are known for their religious practice based in silence. After 350 years, the mystery and miracle of ‘silent Worship in the manner of Friends’ is still the beating heart of Quakerism.
This online series will explore the wonderful world of Quaker Meeting for Worship. To learn more about it together, we’ll use small-group discussion, worship sharing, weekly readings, brief presentations, music, video, poetry, and of course, worship itself.
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Quaker Practice and Science Learning
with John Erickson
An in-person program
May 16-18, 2025
How is the search for understanding of our amazing natural world similar to Quaker practice? What does scientific investigation have in common with spiritual seeking?
John Erickson, a member of Berkeley Friends Meeting and long-time staff member at the Lawrence Hall of Science will lead us through this all-ages weekend of exploration and inquiry, fellowship and fun, indoors and out.