The Quaker Initiative to End Torture – QUIT : An Update on American Torture
John Calvi Thursday, 24 June 2010
7:30 - 9pm in the Barn
John Calvi is the founding convener of The Quaker Initiative to End Torture – QUIT and a Quaker healer with 28 years of experience working with torture survivors. John Calvi has been working with people surviving traumatic experience since 1982. A certified massage therapist, John began this work with women survivors of sexual abuse and then in the AIDS epidemic. Later, he worked with inmates, tortured refugees, ritual abuse survivors, addicts, and people in hospice care. John’s spiritual gift as a Quaker healer is the release of physical and emotional pain following trauma. Making 24 trips each year to teach, John has taught in four countries, five prisons, and ten yearly meetings. Many of his workshops are attended by health care professionals and clergy working in crisis where pain is abundant and resources too few.