John Calvi’s Year End Letter 2014
Dear Friends,
The firewood is
stacked and we are ready for the first snows as I prepare for my final teaching
trips this year. It’s been a year of
travel via wonderful invitations to touch and teach about healing from trauma,
massage and energy work to release stress and illness, and teaching updates on
American torture. My life seems to be
one of chosen extremes.
My book, The
Dance Between Hope & Fear, was released in June 2013. It’s available from both quakerbooks.org and
Amazon. The notes from readers are
clear—this book on healing trauma and stories about a life of service has been
very welcome and deeply useful to seekers of all stripes. Reviews from Friends Journal, FGC Books, and
Quaker Theology are more than generous and point to a very successful rendering
of tons of messy pages by my very fine editor, Shelly Angel, who created this
book.
Shelly and I
are hard at work on a second book. This
will also contain journal writings, speeches, stories on healing trauma,
opening to a calling, and funny stories about being a gay Italian Quaker healer
living in Vermont in the 21st century. Hoping for release late Spring or early Summer.
Jon Watts, Quaker
performer, interviewed me for Friends Journal in August while I was teaching at
New England Yearly Meeting. Jon did a
great job of editing a heap of talk down to an essence so you could hear about
my work with trauma survivors – tortured refugees, inmates, rape survivors,
child abuse survivors, etc. This 4
minute video can be seen here – http://quakerspeak.com/undoing-the-damage-of-violence/
My radio
interview on American torture can be heard here-
Here is my
completed 2014 calendar and my incomplete partial and still forming 2015
calendar. You can see along with
individual work and writing, I am a busy well-used person working by invitation
and living mainly on gifts as I have been doing since the first Beethoven
letter in 1984.
I need your
support to continue. I’ve energy and
experience to put to good use and many people to mentor in the work. Please send a gift to me. I promise it will further my reach to be of
comfort and help to people in need.
Thank you for years of support.
Thirty years of living on gifts has made me very grateful for the work
I’m given and the help from all of you.
In the Light, John
Calvi
John Calvi’s Completed
Calendar 2014
March 14 –16
Powell House Rest, Release, Repair,
Restore Old Chatham NY
powellhouse.org weekend workshop massage, energy work, rest,
cleanse
April 17-20 South Central Yearly Meeting - Workshops & Book Reading
& Signing Bruceville TX
April 22 –
29 Second book work week with my editor
Shelly Angel Richardson TX
May 2-4 Atlanta Friends Meeting- QUIT Update, Meeting Retreat - Deep
Relaxation for Deeper Spiritual Seeking, Book Reading and signing Atlanta
GA
May 30 –June 1
Pendle Hill GOODNESS Workshop
Wallingford PA
pendlehill.org weekend workshop of massage, rest, and gathering
as sense of goodness
June 29 – July
5 Friends General Conference Abandon All
Weariness California PA
fgc.org 5 mornings of massage, energy work,
meditation for deep rest and healing
August 2 – 7
New England Yearly Meeting workshops
Castleton VT
NEYM.org 3 days of workshops – massage, energy work,
avoiding burnout
November 19
Taft Institute Annual Seminar for American History Teachers
November 21-23
St Petersburg Friends Meeting St
Petersburg FL
QUIT Update,
workshop, meeting for healing
Partial Incomplete Calendar
for 2015
February 14 Young Friends New England Yearly Meeting - Good Touch Wellesley MA
March 26 - 27 Toronto Friends Mtg Healing Workshops Toronto Ont
May 29-31
Pendle Hill Deep Rest, Deep Stillness – pendlehill.org Wallingford, PA
Weekend
workshop - massage, energy work, meditation, major napping
July 5-11
Friends General Conference Gathering, W Carolina Univ, Callowhee NC
Weeklong morning
workshop of massage, energy work, meditation
FGC.org
July 17 Vermont
People with AIDS Coalition 25th Retreat. VTPWAC.org
Stowe VT
Workshops on
stress reduction, deep relaxation, grief, and healing trauma
October 23-25
Powell House Weekend workshop of restoration of calm & rest, Old Chatham NY
Weekend
workshop of massage, energy work, meditation
powellhouse.org
Please send a
gift to my address below. THANKS!
Definitions-
tax law says a donation carries the expectation of work for which I am
taxed. A gift is given out of
respect, affection, or charity, such as –
my birthday-
May 14, my wedding anniversary- August 26, or a Christmas gift.
