Pendle Hill’s 95th Anniversary Gathering – Full Weekend Workshop

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Leaders of the 2025 resident student program and other special guests will invite participants into a weekend taster of our residential community.  

This retreat will include opportunities to break bread, worship, sing, and learn together, as we reconnect with each other, the campus, our history, and our future.   On Saturday, workshop participants can join Marcelle Martin and Valerie Brown for a workshop on resting and learning, or John Calvi in a Soft Touch workshop.  On Saturday evening, we will celebrate our rich history and visions of our future.  And on Sunday morning, Pendle Hill’s podcast host Dwight Dunston will invite us to carry Pendle Hill’s seeds out into the world.

Leaders

Valerie Brown is an author, ordained Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher in the lineage of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village tradition, facilitator, and executive coach specializing in leadership development and mindfulness practices with a focus on diversity, social equity, and inclusion. Her newest book is Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace (Broadleaf, 2022). She has authored several popular Pendle Hill pamphlets, including Living from the Center: Mindfulness Meditation and Centering for Friends (PHP #407) and Coming to Light: Cultivating Spiritual Discernment through the Quaker Clearness Committee (PHP #446). She is a member of Solebury Monthly Meeting (PA).  

Francisco Burgos is the executive director at Pendle Hill and has facilitated spiritual retreats and lectio divina sessions for many audiences. Francisco was a De La Salle Christian Brother for almost ten years, serving in Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, and has been a Friend since 2004. He is a member of Harrisburg Friends Meeting and an attender of meetings including Monteverde Friends Meeting in Costa Rica and Adelphi Friends Meeting in Maryland.  

John Calvi began teaching at Pendle Hill in 1990.  His experiences with massage for trauma brought him to work with rape survivors, people with AIDS, inmates, veterans, tortured refugees, and ritual abuse survivors, among others for 40 years.  He was a Released Friend and has given keynotes to a dozen yearly meetings.  Both his books are available in the Pendle Hill Bookstore. 

Dwight Dunston aka Duns is a West Philly-based facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, and activist with roots in the Carolinas and deeper roots in West Africa. His passions/gifts include supporting folks to tap into their superpowers and supporting communities to develop the tools, skills, and techniques to stay connected across different identities. 

Frances Kreimer is the Education Director of Pendle Hill. She previously taught and directed Villanova University Law School’s Clinic for Asylum, Refugee, and Emigrant Services, focusing on mental health, trauma healing, and movement lawyering. She is inspired by nurturing experiments in spiritual learning community at Pendle Hill and outside of it. 

Lloyd Guindon has carefully tended the Pendle Hill grounds for over 30 years. A graduate of the Barnes Foundation’s Arboretum School, he is trained as an arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture. Lloyd’s love for the natural world was nurtured through his childhood on the dairy farm at Olney Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio. Lloyd is a lifelong Quaker and also a poet. 

Marcelle Martin has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States, and was the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill for four years. The author of Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, and A Guide to Faithfulness Groups, she has also written about faith in three Pendle Hill pamphlets and many articles. She feels a great affinity with the first Quakers in the 17th century, but also is clear that we are urgently called to something bold, radical, and new in our time. On her blog, A Whole Heart, she shares inspiration to help us be all God has created us to be. She is a member of Swarthmore Friends Meeting and lives in Chester, PA, with her husband, Terry. 

Lori Piñeiro Sinitzky (Ashkenazi and Caribbean) is an Equity, Justice, and Inclusion educator. She is informed by her identity as a 53-year-old straight, cisgender woman. Lori is a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and clerk of the Worship and Ministry committee. She is a graduate of Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, a single mother of two young adult children, and works to create a more liberated and just world. 

Lucy Sinitzky (she/her) is a second year student at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, studying illustration and emerging media. She has a wide variety of studio experience in ceramics, printmaking, painting, and drawing. She is a native Philadelphian and currently lives in the East Kensington area of Philadelphia.

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