Sing Your Soul Alive!, inspired by Bobby McFerrin’s Song Circle form, is designed for everyone who loves to sing.

We will create and explore vocal music in a safe supportive environment while unifying our voices in spontaneous a cappella song.

Learning to Sing Your Soul Alive! takes participants on a wonderful journey of self-discovery.

Date:		Saturday, January 19	Download a printer- friendly flyer (pdf)
Time:		9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location:		Suquamish UCC 17832 Division Ave. Suquamish, WA 98392
Cost:		$30 by Jan. 15; $35 thereafter
(No one will be turned away for lack of funds) Register Online

		Debby Boland Watt A strong vocalist, arts educator, and master teacher, her unique musical vision embraces classical, folk, spiritual, pop, jazz and free improvisation, a cappella circle singing, spoken word, and poetics.
Ms. Watt earned her Master of Fine Arts – Interdisciplinary Arts Degree from Goddard College and her Bachelors Degree from Cornish College of the Arts. Debby teaches creative approaches to Art and Voice at area schools, Mercer Island Music, and The Children’s Museum of Tacoma in addition to her own studio. For more information, visit: www.debbywatt.com

For more information: Call (360) 598-4434.

If you would like to attend the class “Writing Fiction With Character(s)” with Carmi Soifer, please register for it here.

There are two steps to registering: (1) filling out the registration form, and (2) submitting your payment.

 
Step 1. Registration Form

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Step 2. Payment

Your registration is not complete until we receive payment.

The cost for this class is $45 if you register by Oct. 10, or $50 thereafter.
 

Use a credit card or a PayPal account to pay securely online.

You may also pay by check. Mail your check to:

Sound Spirit
18732 Division Ave. NE
Suquamish, WA 98392

Please make your check payable to:
Suquamish UCC (Attn: Sound Spirit).

 
Questions? Call (360) 598-4434.

An evening of coffee, tea, desserts, and poetry!

 
Are you a poet?
Bring one or two short poems and sign in when you arrive for open-mike readings of as many poems as time permits.
 
Are you a baker?
It would be great if you could bring a dessert to share. Desserts should be “napkin-fodder” to minimize the need for dish-washing.
 
Are you neither a poet nor a baker?
Great! Please come and enjoy the evening!

 
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	Carmi Soifer, M.Ed.
	Sue Sutherland-Hanson, MAT, M.Div.

	Carmi Soifer, M.Ed., is an award-winning poet and writing teacher. She brings decades of experience, care, and spirituality to her classes. Carmi has taught  community workshops on both coasts, and was Artist-in-Residence at Rocky Mountain National Park.

This class will help you enter the art of haiku by gaining an understanding of modern English-language haiku, as well as some aesthetics from the traditional Japanese.

The emphasis is on your own writing — how to take two images and let a spark light between them, how to work with season words and emotion, how to non-judgmentally approach each moment.

Participants will find themselves looking at life’s moments in a new way as we learn to “sketch from life” and take in the fall season.

The class is experiential and fun, and is open to anyone.

	Carmi Soifer, M.Ed., is an award-winning poet and writing teacher. She brings decades of experience, care, and spirituality to her classes. Carmi has taught  community workshops on both coasts, and was Artist-in-Residence at Rocky Mountain National Park.

Do you long to see your characters come alive on the page?

Do you want to see the story tell itself though character, action, dialogue?

This class will help you make your characters fresh and full-bodied. We’ll see how they mirror, or contrast, with our spiritual selves, and how our inner knowing informs and helps embody them.

Through experiential exercises, we’ll see and listen to our characters as they carry the structure of the story.

This course is open to those involved in any form of fiction or related writing (play, screenplay, memoir), as well as would-be writers.

Do you have a story, a memoir, a poem, or lyrics you often wish you would write down?

Do you need to jump start a writing project that is languishing?

Are you lonesome for your creative self?

Support your worthy writing goals and give yourself protected time to listen to what wants to be put on the page in either prose or poetry.
 

Sue Sutherland-Hanson, MAT, M.Div.
		An award-winning poet and essayist, Sue teaches English to students from all language backgrounds at Edmonds Community College. Sue enjoys creating contexts for people to see the wisdom and creativity they embody. She has led workshops on spiritual autobiography, creative writing, modes of creativity, and the spirituality of the body. Her passion for diversity and her life-long connection to the Northwest infuse her art, teaching, and spirituality.

For more information:
Call (360) 598-4434.

Join Sue Sutherland-Hanson, M.Div and comparative religionist and spirituality writer Kimberly Beyer-Nelson as we tour four of Bainbridge Island’s magical labyrinths.

Our journey will begin at Grace Episcopal Church, then on to Rolling Bay Presbyterian, Sakai Intermediate School, and end finally at Bethany Lutheran.

Learn the history of the labyrinth in each location, what triggered their development within their respective communities, and how they were planned and implemented. At each site, we’ll explore a different way to walk a labyrinth, from holy day techniques to deep psychological inquiry to styles of downright playful prayer time. Dialogue about our experiences throughout the day will enrich the tour.

Participants should plan to bring a sack lunch and writing materials. Dress for walking and comfort. We’ll carpool from Grace to help save gas and encourage discussion and fellowship.

Sutherland-Hanson		Kimberly Beyer-Nelson

 
 
For more information:
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Parenting is the most challenging and important job any of us will ever have.  Understanding how children think, perceive the world, and learn at different stages is very helpful to having a peaceful and effective relationship with your child.

This workshop will help you understand what “mindful” parenting is — parenting which includes being aware and sensitive to your child’s needs and desires and balancing them with your needs and desires — through better understanding how children relate to the world at the different stages of development.

This workshop will cover ages 3-6, 7-10, 11-13 and the teen years.

There will be lecture, discussion and some writing.
Childcare will be available.

About Peggy Swingle:
		Peggy Swingle has been a Suzuki piano teacher for over 35 years. An important facet of the Suzuki method is teaching parents how to work with their children to achieve success. Peggy has traveled, lectured, and taught all over the world.

 
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Call (360) 598-4434.

How can we work more deeply and
ecumenically with the juicy and enigmatic
figure of Jesus?

How can such a study invite us into a more rounded and organic understanding of one of the greatest wisdom teachers of all time?

What fruitful spiritual practices might we harvest from such an inquiry?

Join comparative religion scholar Kimberly Beyer-Nelson as she explores these basic questions through the lens of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and with material from the Koran, the Hadith, and popular stories about Jesus from the Islamic perspective.

			With a master’s degree in comparative religion and a graduate certificate in holistic healthcare, Kim has been a spiritual director, qigong instructor, and yoga therapist for more than 12 years. She has had a centering prayer practice for over 20 years and delights in leading contemplative retreats. Kim is a published poet, essayist, and fiction writer.
	Kimberly Beyer-Nelson

For more information:
Call (360) 598-4434.