Jone Johnson Lewis, NoVES Senior Leader, kicks off the 2010-2011 program year with an opening address: Individualism? Relationships? Community?  Are these in conflict, inherently, or do they work together?  Come consider what it might be to live in relationships and build community where every individual matters.  

Lisel Burns, Leader Emeritus of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture (BSEC) invites us to consider our nation’s historic responsibility for distorted development in Haiti. She proposes ways that members and local Ethical Societies can assist Haitians and Haitian Americans in developing local partnership projects with earthquake-affected Haitian communities. These partnerships can transform communities both here and there.  Lisel has been visiting Haiti as a community development organizer since the mid-1990s and BSEC has ongoing support programs in Leogane, at the epicenter of Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake.

In honor of International Peace Day on September 26, NoVES celebrates peace building.

Whether you're able to attend the Saturday Parenting Beyond Belief Workshop or not, on Sunday you'll be able to hear Dale McGowan on the promises and challenges of "Raising Free Thinkers." More on Dale McGowan, his books, and his work: Parenting Beyond Belief