• The Little Door–A Gathering Reflection

    Michael Rice The meeting house at Woolman Hill in Deerfield, Massachusetts, is an ancient historical structure brought to this Quaker Conference Center from its original location in North Dartmouth, where it had served as the Quaker Meeting House for two centuries but had lost its congregants some decades ago. In order to preserve this historical […]

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  • Two Days Later — A Gathering Reflection

    Rosalie Anders Two days after the Gathering, I found myself in the Massachusetts State House with a list of legislators to lobby for a bill to divest the state pension fund from fossil fuels, and a response form. Each time I paused to open another big oak door to another legislator’s office, I fought the […]

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  • Interhelp Gathering News

    Dear Interhelpers and friends, we on Interhelp Council want to share with you our thoughts as we plan for Gathering 2015, to be held Oct 30 – Nov. 1 at Woolman Hill in MA. Please read on. Interhelp exists to strengthen the human capacity to face and respond to crisis conditions. Tara Brach writes, “We belong […]

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  • Interhelp Newsletter, July 26, 2015

    Dear Interhelpers and Friends, I was thrilled to read about the journey of the second Earth Leadership Cohort (below) and I hope you will read it also. Perhaps the report from the Hartford-area support group will inspire you to form a group in your area. And Rosalie Anders lets us in on how things got […]

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  • Following the Spiral with the Hartford-area Support Group

    The Hartford, CT support group is a fertile space this year! We are thrilled to have kindred folks from western New York joining us as we practice together, and as they gain ideas for seeding their own group in their home area. Each two-hour meeting follows the Spiral and includes a meal. We begin with […]

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  • Nine Graduates of the Second Earth Leadership Cohort Join the Earth Leadership Community

    by Lisa Galinski of the first Earth Leadership Cohort “Learn to live your life with all your heart, and All your soul and all your mind and Learn to love all humankind As you would love yourself.   We’ve got happy lives to live We’ve got open arms to give We’ve got hope down deep […]

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  • March 2015 Newsletter

    Events, Updates and Reflections   Dear Interhelpers and Friends,   As spring begins to emerge from winter (we are hopeful, here in New England, that this is the case), there’s a lot to report on. See below for upcoming events; Interhelp Network news; Earth Leadership Cohort update; and Michael Rice’s thoughtful article, A Hopeful Pessimist […]

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  • Newsletter Archives

    The Interhelp Network Announcement Email List The Interhelp Network announcement email list is used by the Interhelp Council to send out infrequent email announcements of Interhelp events and other information of interest to the greater Interhelp community. Announcement Archives Interhelp Update Fall 2014 Interhelp Update Spring 2014 Interhelp Update Winter 2014 Interhelp Update Spring 2013 […]

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  • Interhelp Newsletter, Fall 2014

    Dear Interhelpers and Friends, Gathering 2014 was an event to remember and celebrate as forty-one of us (our largest group for many years) explored our theme Stronger, Together: Courage for the Great Turning. On Friday evening we each invited an ancestor to be with us and to lend us their special gifts; on Saturday we […]

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  • Interhelp Update, Feb. 2008

    Greetings, Interhelpers and friends, from your new Update Editor, Paula Hendrick. I moved to Mass. from Seattle in November, where I was involved in a similar networking/support group called Great Turning Northwest. I’m thrilled to be an Interhelper again, as I was when I lived here in the early 1980s. Please contact me with submissions, letters to the […]

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