Radical Hospitality: The Way of Jesus
North Street Community Church of Hingham, Bethel Church of the Nazarene of Quincy, the Anchor of Hull, and Heart-to-Heart present a six-week in-person learning and growing journey in community.
Sundays February 22 & March 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 4:30-6:00 pm
North Street Community Church of the Nazarene, 235 North St., Hingham, MA
While sessions do build on each other, you are welcome to attend any or all sessions
All are welcome. Sign up is free.
This Lenten journey, led by Heart-to-Heart CEO Steve Tumolo, is designed to support people of faith and conscience in living the radical hospitality of Jesus, so needed in these times. Together, we will learn and practice radical hospitality, a rooted receptivity to all that is alive in ourselves and in others. In doing so, we hope to more fully enflesh and be the body of Christ.
The six-week journey offers a chance to learn and grow in skills essential for all our relationships. We will draw on the powerful skills of Nonviolent Communication, developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg.
Are you interested in becoming a Heart-to-Heart trainer or assistant? In helping us bring our life-changing work to people in or out of prisons? Then taking this series would be a great introduction.
Themes are:
Feb 22 Reactive or Receptive: Two Ways of Living Life
Mar 1 What Do We All Really Need?
Mar 8 Empathy: The Liberating Power of Compassionate Presence
Mar 15 Transforming Conflict by Translating Judgment
Mar 22 Asking for What We Need: Making Requests
Mar 29 A meal-sharing and integration
Donation: This community-building and learning journey is given freely, with an invitation to give back to the nonprofit Heart-to-Heart. Heart-to-Heart helps people affected by incarceration to heal, thrive, and become the leaders they are called to be. We teach life-changing relationship skills in and out of correctional facilities. Our goal is this series is to equip people with the skills and consciousness needed to be healing agents in our society, fostering systems of restorative not punitive justice, with hospitality for our returning citizens and all who need welcome.
Registration is free. By registering we can prepare and send each week’s learning materials to you by email.
After signing up, you can give to Heart-to-Heart and help incarcerated people prepare for a life of freedom and service. It is a free will offering, give as you choose.
Meet Your Facilitator: Steve Tumolo
Steve is the Chief Encouragement Officer with Heart-to-Heart, leading healing, therapeutic programs in and out of prisons since 1998. His unique approach brings together Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication, Christian faith, and the body’s natural capacity for healing. He is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Steve has a master’s degree in theology from the Maryknoll School of Theology and is a PhD candidate in leadership at Gonzaga University.
Steve’s work with incarcerated men and women has been featured in NBC News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and New Jersey Monthly. He is the recipient of the Elizabeth Ann Bogert Memorial Award for the Study and Practice of Christian Mysticism, an OPUS Vision Award from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and the Environmental Achievement Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. His work in correctional facilities has been commended by the State of New Jersey Legislature.