upcoming events

For more information for about these events contact Virginia Jones at compassion500@gmail.com or call at 503-866-6163.

Saturday -- July 25,2009 – Compassionate Gathering Potluck and Bar-b-que from 1 to 5 PM. We will gather at the home of Brad and Sharon Burke from 1 to 5 PM. Sharon is the sister of a clergy abuse survivor and Brad and Sharon are parishioners at Madeleine Catholic Church. The Burkes reside at 2425 NE 23rd Street. In Portland, Oregon.

Walk Across Oregon to stop Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Clergy Abuse, and Rape:

July 28: La Grande

July 31: Joseph, Wallowa Lake

August 1: Enterprise, Wallowa Lake

August 3: Pendleton

August 4: Hermiston

August 11: The Dalles

August 13: Hood River

August 17: Columbia River Gorge, Horsetail Falls

August 18: Bridal Veil Falls

August 19: Wakeena Falls

August 20: Multnomah Falls, Oneota Falls

Augsut 21: Latoruel Fall, Crown Point, Larch Mountain

August 22: Portland -- Ascension Catholic Church, Mt. Tabor, Hawthorne District

August 23: Dowtown Portland

August 24: Banks-Vernonia Trail

August 27: Astoria

September 4: Ft. Clatsop

September 5: Pacific Ocean

August 22, 2009: Walk Across Oregon: Compassionate Gathering for Listening

10 AM to Noon

St. Clare Room

Ascension Catholic Church

7507 SE Yamhill Street

Portland, OR 97215

We will gather to hear the stories of survivors of abuse and emotional trauma. Afterwards we will walk to Mt. Tabor, Laurelhurst Park and the Belmont District for the Walk Across Oregon.

September 12, 2009Compassionate Gathering for Listening and Support

11 AM to 3 PM

St. Francis Room

Ascension Catholic Church

7507 SE Yamhill

11 AM to 1 PM: Support for survivors with Elizabeth Goeke (ergoeke@comcast.net)

Hospitality and Community building from 1 to 1:30 PM

Listening training 1:30 to 2 PM. Listening from 2 to 3

September 12, 2009: Compassionate Gathering for Listening and Support

11 AM to 3 PM

St. Francis Room

Ascension Catholic Church

7507 SE Yamhill

11 AM to 1 PM: Support for survivors with Elizabeth Goeke (ergoeke@comcast.net)

Hospitality and Community building from 1 to 1:30 PM

Listening training 1:30 to 2 PM. Listening from 2 to 3

Tuesday – September 29, 2009 – Class: I am Listening: Relationships With Compassion with Virginia Jones

Time: 7 to 9 PM

Location: Spirit Feathers Healing Center and New Age Boutique (see their website www.spiritfeathers.net starting September, 2009)

7704 SE 13th (Sellwood)

Portland, Oregon 97202

Many marriage therapists tell their clients to listen reflectively to their spouses when they are argue. Most people can’t do this. When wounded, we resort to the flight or flight instincts and either defend ourselves or attack verbally the other person with whom we are fighting. Sometimes our wounds from old verbal battles are so deep, that we reflexively react to everyone the same way, not trusting that some good can come out of a difficult interaction. This class gives participants the tools to listen reflectively for facts, wounds, feelings, heart-held values. Once we learn to listen compassionately, we can take this knowledge to help us know how to address conflict in a way that disarms nicely the person who is fighting with us. This heals wounds in relationships, and if the wounds are too deep to heal, it helps us come into our power as we learn the real meaning of “turn the other cheek.” We are strongest when we are compassionate.

To register call Virginia at 503-866-6163.

October 3, 2009: Compassionate Gathering for Listening and Support

11 AM to 3 PM

St. Francis Room

Ascension Catholic Church

7507 SE Yamhill

11 AM to 1 PM: Support for survivors with Elizabeth Goeke (ergoeke@comcast.net)

Hospitality and Community building from 1 to 1:30 PM

Listening training 1:30 to 2 PM. Listening from 2 to 3

Tuesday, October 27, 2009: Class: Don’t Discipline, Just Listen! Parenting with Compassion with Virginia Jones

Time: 7 to 9 PM

Location: Spirit Feathers Healing Center and New Age Boutique (see their website www.spiritfeathers.net starting September, 2009)

7704 SE 13th (Sellwood)

Portland, OR 97212

Listening to your child’s anger and responding with your heart can resolve tantrums without discipline. Listening also strengthens the relationship between child and parent, but it takes practice and support to replace old habits of lecturing with new habits of listening. This class gives parents the tools to listen to their children and to know how to respond to connect with their children heart to heart to resolve family conflict.

To register call Virginia at 503-866-6163.

November 7, 2009: Compassionate Gathering for Listening and Support

11 AM to 3 PM

St. Francis Room

Ascension Catholic Church

7507 SE Yamhill

11 AM to 1 PM: Support for survivors with Elizabeth Goeke (ergoeke@comcast.net)

Hospitality and Community building from 1 to 1:30 PM

Listening training 1:30 to 2 PM. Listening from 2 to 3

December 5, 2009: Rosary Retreat for Healing the Wounds of Abuse

With former Benedictine nun and clergy abuse survivor and therapist, Elizabeth Goeke

9 AM to 4 PM

Conference Room

Ascension Catholic Church

7507 SE Yamhill

Compassionate Gathering January Potluck --TBA

Tuesday January 26, 2010 -- Compassionate Gathering for Listening

Time: 7 to 9 PM

Location: Spirit Feathers Healing Center and New Age Boutique (see their website www.spiritfeathers.net starting September, 2010)

Lent 2010 -- We will be handing out Sack Cloth Penance Patches in Catholic parishes in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere. Fr, Armando Lopez hopes to hand out patches at St. Bonifice’s Friary in San Francisco. These Patches signify penance and sorrow for clergy abuse and other forms of abuse and exploitation. We are all responsible for supporting survivors and stopping these abuses from happening in the future.

A Lenten Reconciliation 2010: A family member of a priest hopes to apologize to her uncle’s survivors.

Walk Across Oregon 2010

Portland

Tigard

Newburg

McMinnville

Monmouth

Corvallis

Eugene

Bend

Newberry Crater

Walk Across Oregon 2011