Mark Scandrette

This is a great Learning Lab that I’m co facilitating beginning at the end of this month.

EXPERIMENTS IN TRUTH: A laboratory for personal transformation.

DATES: Tuesdays February 24-April 7—- 7-9 p.m.

LOCATION: 65 Dorland Street San Francisco 94110

COST: $60-$100 sliding scale

The master invites us to rethink or reimagine our whole lives in
light of the Maker’s dream of greater wholeness for our world. This
Learning Lab explores the physicality of spiritual formation. If I
change what I do in my mind and body, how will it effect my capacity
to flow with the creators energy & love? (what I eat? How I spend my
time? The media I consume? How I use my money? Who I spend my time
with?) This practical workshop seeks to deal with the disparity we
often feel between how we want to live and how we actually live. Jesus
spent 40 days in the wilderness fasting and facing his greatest
shadows and temptations. Participants in this Learning Lab will engage
in practices aimed at confronting shadows and obstacles to the
spiritual life through “experiments in truth.”

Dan Kimball and family were kind enough to make the drive up from Santa Cruz to see our show in Oakland this summer– even though they had been displaced by the forest fires near their home. (Am just posting now because I finally figured out how to reduce photo size).

Today I started growing out facial hair again for that indomitable and loveable preacher A.L. Withee, who will be spreading revival wild fire with Big Brother Duke and The professor in Pittsburgh in a few weeks at the National Youth Worker’s Convention. This was my favorite photo of the Preacher from the Church Basement Roadshow this summer, when he was giving a whoop and a push and all he’s got.

SIMPLIFY: A life planning and money management workshop

This course will be followed up by an optional five week Learning Lab on Tuesday evenings (November 4, 11,18,25 and December 2)
Register online here.

Finding a Path Toward Greater Freedom & Creativity
(In an era of scarcity and greed)

Saturday, November 1, 2008 9 A.M.- 3 P.M.
Location: 455 Dolores Street San Francisco 94410 (near 18th St. in the Mission)
Cost: $40-$60 Sliding scale Includes lunch and materials (scholarships available upon request)

With the rising costs of basic necessities (like food, housing, healthcare) and the uncertainty of our current economy, many of us feel challenged to live within our means and pursue our dreams. At the same time, we are increasingly aware of the disproportionate privilege we possess in comparison with most of the worlds population. What does it mean live justly and sustainably in a culture of prosperity and materialism?  How can we apply what Jesus taught about time, money and possessions to our current life context?

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“A person’s life does not consist in the abundance of their possessions.”

“Sell your possessions and give to the poor.”

“Do not worry about your life… seek first the kingdom… and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Through this one-day workshop we will examine what Jesus taught about time, money and possessions and explore how we might translate important themes into life practices:  Abundance, Gratefulness, Contentment, Trust, Generosity, Simplicity & frugality.

This workshop is designed for people who:

•    Live in fear and worry about not having enough
•    Wish to reduce, minimize or eliminate personal debts
•    Long to have a more simple, sustainable and soulful life
•    Want to rethink life beyond the empire of the American Dream
•    Desire more time for family, relationships and the things that matter most
•    Seek to leverage their life energy creatively for the good of the world

In this applied workshop participants will:

•    Gain insights and tools for transforming your relationship to money– taming consumptive impulses
•    Practice gratefulness
•    Establish time, life energy and financial goals
•    Develop a working budget, debt-reduction strategy and planned giving
•    Learn creative tips about how to live more simply in specific budget areas

Whether you tend to spend too much and find yourself in debt, or you are thrifty and obsessive about saving, this workshop has something to offer because the genesis-dream for each of us is a posture of radical contentment and generosity!

FACILITORS:

Over the past 17 years, Mark and Lisa Scandrette have learned to maximize a modest family income to leverage their time creatively to serve and be of use to others. Through their example they have inspired many to live more simply and generously. Lisa Scandrette is an educator and textile artist who uses the skills she gained growing up on a rural farm to cultivate an organic and creative urban life. Mark is a sought after speaker and author of the book, SOUL GRAFFITI: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus, and he is the executive director of ReIMAGINE! in San Francisco.