Talk and Workshop with Christopher Schaefer:
May 1st & 2nd

Friday Evening Talk: A presentation on The Beloved Community:
An Imagination for our Time followed by a discussion time,
7-8:30pm • Hartsbrook School, Hadley, MA

WORKSHOP: A deeper exploration: MAY 2, 9-12:00 am

In this difficult time of multiple, interconnected crises, we need a new imagination of what it means to be human and how we are related to the physical, social and spiritual worlds. Such an imagination has been growing since the early 20th century and became the basis of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement and of engaged Buddhism through the remarkable friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh. It is this imagination of the Beloved Community, of the interdependence of all life forms, of the living and the dead, and of how the universe manifests mutuality, reciprocity and love that is so vital for our time. We exist because of this Beloved Community and we have the opportunity of creating or betraying it daily in our life and relationships.