Friday Evening Talk with Christopher Schaefer

A presentation on The Beloved Community: An Imagination for our Time followed by a discussion time, 7-8:30pm •
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Please join us for the Saturday Workshop from 9:00am - Noon

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.

Christopher Schaefer is a retired adult educator having taught for many years at both Emerson College in England and at Sunbridge College in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. He has been a founding member of the Social Science Section work in the U.S. and has consulted internationally with many Waldorf schools and other institutions inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s work. He is the coauthor of Vision in Action: Working with Soul and Spirit in Small Organizations,(with Tijno Voors), and the author of Partnerships of Hope: Building Waldorf School Communities, ReImaging America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times and the editor of Moved by Destiny: Life Stories of Social Engagement. He lives with his wife Signe Eklund Schaefer in the Berkshires.