Camp Woolman Still Accepting Registrations
Are you still considering summer camp? Do you care for a youth between the ages of 9 & 17? Then we would be delighted to encourage your camper as we connect, hike, camp, and thrive …
Announcing Camp Woolman for Summer 2022!
We are excited to announce that Camp Woolman will be resuming again this summer! Camp was discontinued in 2020 due to the concerns presented by Covid, then again in 2021 for the reparations necessary in …
Job Opening: Finance and Operations Director
Based in the California Sierra Nevada foothills, Woolman’s mission is to both inspire and prepare individuals to work for peace, justice, and environmental sustainability, and to deepen their personal and spiritual growth. Continuing its six-decade …
Volunteer for Community Tree Planting
Help us with a reforestation project at the Sierra Friends Center campus! On August 20, 2020, the lightning-started Jones Fire raged across Woolman’s campus and decimated the forest at Mel’s Pond. Quickly, a tree …
2022 Programming Focus & Other Updates
With so much uncertainty caused by Covid variants and wildfires, educational programming at Woolman is challenging. While we cannot host overnight youth programs yet, we are taking advantage of the opportunity to do mission-focused planning …
Jorgensen School for Nonviolence Pilot: Seeking Faculty
Woolman is seeking faculty to teach workshops for the Jorgensen School for Nonviolence. This program envisions a world where positive social change is achieved through personal awareness, societal understanding, and nonviolent direct action. Since the …
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Woolman School History Book Project
Three individuals: Cathy Lenox (class of ’71), a professional writer, Lisa Frankel an historian, and Paul Jolly (class of ’78) got together recently and wondered how they might write a book about Woolman. Such a book …
WE WILL REBUILD…BETTER!
RECOVERY IS HAPPENING We are already seeing signs of new growth in the forest and it is such a relief. To think how a few blades of grass along the creek amid the ash can …
Help Save Sierra Friends Center Land
By Marty Coleman-Hunt, Interim Director of Woolman and Sierra Friends Center I have a dear friend who always likes to call attention to the “problem with a gift in its pocket.” These times have certainly …
Black Lives Matter
““A riot is the language of the unheard,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in his 1967 speech, The Other America. “And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to …