From their beginnings in the seventeenth century, Quakers have played important roles in many movements for change. Drawing on that history as well as her own experience as a climate activist and peacekeeper, author Eileen Flanagan will share examples of how any of us can seek inward guidance while being engaged in an imperfect world.

EILEEN is a Quaker nonviolence trainer with over thirty years of experience leading workshops and trainings. She has confronted corporate CEOs, prayed in their lobbies, and been arrested alongside Indigenous water protectors, Black preachers and fellow Quakers. With Choose Democracy’s Daniel Hunter, she helped craft materials now being used by tens of thousands of activists nationally. She will be speaking also on Monday, Feb. 23, at 6 pm at Scuppernong Bookstore in downtown Greensboro about her book Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation, which includes change-making lessons from the climate movement.