Quaker Center seeks to nurture the spiritual growth and faithfulness of Friends and others, while strengthening Quakerism and its witness in the world. We offer programs and personal retreats exemplifying Friends’ testimonies of community, integrity, simplicity, peace, and equality. We strive to live in right order with all creation, especially with the redwood forest that sustains us here in the Santa Cruz mountains.

• Spiritual practice, growth, and faithfulness.
• Strengthening and enriching Quakerism and its witness in the world.
• Exemplifying Friends' testimonies.
• Climate change & living in right order with creation
• Social & Racial Justice & Healing

Programs utilizing a mix of modes (such as: journaling, discussion, worship, the arts,group lectures,
small groups, queries, interaction with nature, etc.) are encouraged.

Those program proposals which offer insights into developing and nurturing an effective and
radical Quaker witness in the face of contemporary challenges will be given special attention.

In-person weekend retreats draw between 15 and 30 participants.
We occasionally hold five-day programs (three full days).
We offer honoraria as an expression of gratitude for the gifts of ministry and time that this work
demands. Travel fares are reimbursed up to a mutually determined limit.
Online program series: We also hold 4, 5 or 6-session series, with weekly sessions held over about a month.

Name(s) and Contact Information (including email) of leader(s) and an elder (if you wish):
• Proposed title.
• Overview of program.
• Preferred month(s) to hold program in the coming year.

Thank you for your interest and for you time!