<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#51619E"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#040508"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></font></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#040508"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">January 30-Feb 1st Jeff Hilliard and Kristen Chamberlin will be offering a Shalom Retreat for Social Change Activists in Florence Ma.</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"> </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">This retreat will offer the best of Shalom Mountain offers with it's 30 years of transformational personal growth work, with that of Joanna Macy's engaged Buddhist practices. In Joanna's 'Work that Reconnects' she offers maps for understanding, and navigating these times, while understanding, discovering or more deeply committing to our own, unique contribution. We will also include a taste of the Clare Graves' developmental model of consciousness called Spiral Dynamics which can help us to more effectively work with the radically different approaches groups have towards sustainability and social change.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">This project sits between two larger projects in which we are bringing together the personal growth communities with the social change communities. It is our belief that more than any other time, we need to learn and collaborate with one another to most effectively create the change for which we each long, and for fully living into wholeness. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">Project One: </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"> </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">The Great Turning Film</font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">Many of you have heard about The Great Turning, the film that Chris Landry and I are working on in collaboration with Joanna Macy. This will be a story of hope using Joanna's Buddhist and Systems frames on looking at these times we're in, and offering maps for finding our own individual contribution towards a more ecologically, socially and financially sustainable communities. </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">The Shalom Retreat for Social Change Activists will be a Pilot Retreat for the one that will be rolled out in tandem with the film for folks who are inspired to take the film's message into their own lives. </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">Project Two: The Green Gathering: Connecting Earth and Soul, Aug 6-9, 2009</font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">This will be a 4 day gathering at Shalom Mountain in the Catskills of NYS, in which we will be bringing together leaders in various Social Change movements for a conversations and workshops, with those that are involved with intrapersonal growth and healing aspects of change. We suspect that collaboration and inspiration will be a natural outcome of this in-depth networking opportunity. There are already many interesting people and projects gathering around the idea. </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">The January Shalom Retreat for Social Change Activists is set to begin this conversation and to spread the word further to the networks of each attendee.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">Thanks for reading along. If any of this interests you, please feel free to take up a role as ambassador to these projects and spread the word where you feel called. Also, feel free to call with any questions you may have.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">much love,</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">Kristen Chamberlin</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#080603">413-586-2373</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 27, 208); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 27, 208); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001BD0"><span></span></font></div></font></div></span></font></blockquote></div></div></body></html>