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Tom Holmes, MSW, PhD, is a specialist in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and author of the highly acclaimed book Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life. As an international trainer for therapists in high-conflict areas Tom’s workshops integrate Western psychology with teachings of Buddhism, Sufism, Christianity, Judaism, and Daoism. His non-pathologizing approach to psychological wellbeing is both inviting and healing. February 25, 2025

Sharon Browning, Esq., inspiring speaker, trainer, activist, and co-author of The Little Book of Listening: Listening as a Radical Act of Love, Justice, Healing and Transformation. Since 2007, Sharon Browning and her JUST Listening team have been teaching a powerful method of listening that facilitates meaningful social change, healing, and transformation in some of the most challenging settings in the US and abroad. Radical listening is an essential macro-skill and a necessary prerequisite to forming the relationships needed to effect real change in the face of so much inequity, oppression, and injustice. April, 2025

Marcelle Martin has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States. She teaches practices for hearing divine guidance, discernment, and being responsive to calls and leadings. For four years she was the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill. The author of Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, and A Guide to Faithfulness Groups, she has also written four Pendle Hill pamphlets and many articles. Her most recent Pendle Hill pamphlet is Guidance and Revelations in Dreams. Currently she is at work on a memoir. For four years she was the Quaker Studies teacher in residence at Pendle Hill, and she was a core teacher for three offerings of the 9-month Quaker program, Nurturing Faithfulness, held at Woolman Hill retreat center in New England. She feels a great affinity with the radical first Quakers in the 17th century but believes that we are urgently called to something bold and new in our time. On her blog, A Whole Heart, (awholeheart.com), she shares inspiration to help us live into the fullness of who we were created us to be. She is a member of Swarthmore Friends Meeting, which has recognized and supported her ministry of spiritual nurture among Friends. She lives in Chester, PA with her husband, Terry. June 5, 2025

For the past three years, Trebbe Johnson and Rev. Alison Cornish have conducted a 20-minute bi-weekly online gathering called Earth Hospice Rites. The Earth herself is not dying, of course. Our planet has regenerated countless times over a four and a half billion-year lifespan and will do so again. But something very dear to us humans is dying, and that is our relationship with the seasons, plants, animals, and waters as we know and love them. In many ways, we are called to offer Earth practices similar to that which Hospice offers to our friends and family as they end their physical lives amongst us. A brief, yet focused time of refuge and reflection, Earth Hospice Rites invites participants to share their grief, fear, and outrage about climate change, while also opening up to gratitude for the marvels that Earth continues to offer everywhere and every day. This Speaker Series session will include a brief introduction to the practice and an Earth Hospice Rites gathering, with time following for participants to engage in quiet solo reflection and journaling before returning to the group for questions and discussion. Alison and Trebbe will address the origins and intentions behind Earth Hospice Rites and describe how the program can be adapted for any community, either online or in person. Participants will be provided access to written guidelines for creating their own Earth Hospice Rites gathering. August 25, 2025