Category Archives: General Announcements

National Dewan Meeting in Seattle

(L-R ) First Row: Sonya Shooshan, Sebastian Tedrow, Muftiah McCartin, Marius Harold, Kenneth Clark, Halimah Polk; Second Row: Shoshanah Margolin, Mary Wold, Lianne Card, Sofia Nicoletti, Alexandra Boyer; Third Row: Michael Barber, Daniel Stralberg, Benedict Herrman, Laksar Reese.

The U.S. National Dewan met in November at the Subud House in Seattle and there is a report in the latest Subud USA E-Blast:

SUBUD USA NATIONAL DEWAN MEETING IN SEATTLE
The Subud USA national committee and helpers met together in Seattle at the Spring Street Center over the weekend of November 21-23. One purpose of the meeting was to strengthen working relationships which all felt were good to begin with. Testing and sharing, having meals together, all helped to strengthen the bond. Another purpose was to ensure that the efforts of each side of the dewan were aligned and integrated. Several issues and topics require both helper and committee input. One surprising outcome of the testing on priorities was that, while it is very important for the national helpers to travel, this was also important for the national committee in order to stay close to the membership and provide support to both kejiwaan and organizational sides of the organization.

Halimah Bellows Career Quest App

Halimah Bellows Career Quest App is now available for FREE this week only on ITunes. Like the set of cards, it’s a unique strategy to refine your next career search. Easy and fun to use the app reflects the best of career development exercises. It’s like having your own portable Career Coach. Free Itunes download this week only. And if you do download it, a review (good of course) would be most appreciated. Please like my facebook business page – Clarityandaction. Am trying to get 100 likes so I can have my own url. thanks everyone and happy holidays.

Birdwatch, Feb 14, 2015

The Birds!

Announcing the Seventh-Annual Subud Bellingham/Skagit Bird Tour
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Bring your honey or treat yourself!
Gift Certificates Available
Cost: $45 per person
(accommodations available for out of towners)

Join us as we witness the magic of the Skagit River Delta, a winter birding paradise with an international reputation. You’ll see thousands of snow geese, hundreds of trumpeter swans, waterfowl and shorebirds. Raptors winter here in large numbers, particularly bald eagles, red-tailed hawks and a few merlin and peregrine falcons. Ravens and herons are numerous, plus other songbirds and maybe a surprise or two.

Along the way we will sample some delicious eats from artisan bakeries. At the end of the 5-hour tour, we’ll arrive back at the Subud house for a hearty and delicious home-cooked Valentine’s Day dinner fit for kings and queens (and yes, there will be chocolate!)

To register contact
Robina Page at 360 384-3222 robinapage5443@gmail.com
or Roomswati Reynolds at 360 734-8517 roosmiwati@gmail.com

Trip guide Paul Woodcock brings 50 years of birding to your experience and has led trips for the North Cascades Audubon Society for over ten years.

This event is Subud Bellingham/Skagit’s annual house-maintenance fundraiser.

Susila Dharma Appeal

Dear Subud Members,

While sitting at an abundant table during Thanksgiving, I thought about those around the world that had no such full plate…only the grim despair of hunger and poverty.

With a year-end gift to Susila Dharma USA, you can help bring hope to the hundreds of people around the world who benefit from SDUSA’s charitable projects, including:

The Q Fund, which educates children in Africa, many of them orphans of the AIDS epidemic;

PUEBLO, which employs at-risk youth in Oakland, California in urban community agriculture;

YUM, which created an organic strawberry farm to support community projects in Indonesia.

Won’t you help us continue this important work by making a special year-end donation of $50, $100 — or whatever you can afford — to help us continue to our work? We simply can’t do it without you. Your support will make a real, lasting impact in the lives of those who are still in need.

To make your donation now, go to www.SusilaDharmaUSA.org/donate2014

Or mail your check to: SDUSA,50616 Hwy 245, Badger, CA 93603

The lives of hundreds of needy people are at stake.

Thank you in advance for your generous year-end gift to Susila Dharma USA.

With gratitude, Evan Padilla
Chair, Susila Dharma USA

Calling all members to test for The New Subud Greater Seattle Committee

I am excited to see who will be on this new committee in January, after the testing is complete. I’m asking each member to be willing to test whether it’s correct to for them to serve.

We’ve done much to create the stable organization that’s served you the last 2 years. The Region is willing to offer training to the new team.

For more details click here.

Help Represent Subud Greater Seattle’s Housing Needs

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The Subud PNW wants to ensure that our Subud PNW Houses remain on solid footing from a maintenance, enterprise and cultural perspective. Won’t you bring your skills and expertise to this effort?

In order to plan for our future, so that our maintenance and outreach needs can be met, we’re reforming this committee with representatives from the 3 centers that have houses. We need and want a representative from Subud Greater Seattle. Will you be that representative?

For more information, please contact Oswald Norton, chair of the Subud PNW Housing Committee.

Marius Hibbard Photo Exhibit

Longtime Subud member and world-class photographer Marius Hibbard is having an exhibition of recent photos he took in Croatia. It’s happening in Anacortes (see flyer below) where he lives and serves on the board of the Anacortes Art Commission. December happens to be Croatian cultural month in Anacortes. The opening is Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6, at the Croatian Cultural Center. Everyone is invited. And check out the feature on the exhibition in Anacortes Magazine here.

Phillip Quackenbush Memorial

A group of 40, friends, family and acquaintances gathered at the Subud House yesterday for a memorial to Phillip Quackenbush, who died at the age of 78 on Sunday, October 26, 2014. There were Subud people, members of the Council House residential community and even members of a non-duality discussion group of which Phillip was a member.

Francesca Cameron and Oriana Quackenbush, Phillip’s ex-wife and his daughter organized the event and Oriana emceed the proceedings.

Some notes and photos from the event are expected soon. In the meantime this short poem taken mostly from notes I took at the event:

Menucha Scholarship Fund

Menucha

A workshop was held at Menucha this year, the annual Pacific Northwest Regional Kejiwaan gathering and a report was created Paul Woodcock, with comment from Morris McClellan. Among their recommendations:

1) Create a permanent Menucha Scholarship Fund and state its purpose with clarity and inclusiveness. Spread the word that the purpose of the fund is to raise money so that all who wish to share the Menucha experience can be included.

2) Raise funds year round by promoting donation on the website, regular solicitation and several annual fund-raising events. (I suggest that we should start raising money for next year at the end of each Menucha by “passing the hat” for next year’s scholarship funding, maybe a Menucha evaluation/feedback form each year with a solicitation at the end and inclusion of a fund-raising mention with all Menucha- related communications etc.? PW.)

3) Find a volunteer fund/funding program director under the Regional Commitee to help oversee the fund and fundraising and not add these duties to an existing committee position?

4) Funds should be distributed by the method currently used. The process needs to be kept simple (through a personal statement of need by each scholarship applicant?). If there are funding requests that cannot be met one year, those applicants should be moved to the top of next-year’s list. (This important part we did not thoroughly discuss.)

You can download the whole report here: https://www.subudgreaterseattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Menucha_Where_Do_We_Go_From_Here__Discussion_Report.pdf

The next Menucha gathering is November 12-15, 2015.

Volunteers Needed for National Dewan Meeting

National Dewan

The National Helpers and Committee will be meeting in Seattle from November 21 to 23 at the Subud Seattle house.

Subud USA is looking for volunteers to help with:

Accommodations for our guests for Friday-Sunday Night.

Transportation to and from the Airport on Friday and Sunday.

Meals organization for Friday Night, Saturday Morning and Lunch, Sunday Breakfast, and potluck lunch for group.

The Committee and Helpers will be attending the Group Sunday Latihan on November 23, 2014

If you can help in any way please contact Sebastian Tedrow at either executivedirector@subudusa.org or by phone 360.708.2725.

I will be going to Menucha so I will be out of town from Thursday Nov6-9^th.

Thanks for your Support and good Wishes.

Sebastian Tedrow