Dear Friends,

By now most of you know The Whole Health Center turned 40 this year. For 40 years, Paul Weiss and many talented teachers and practitioners have offered pathways into physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual growth and healing to hundreds of seekers and pilgrims like you. We offer our heartfelt congratulations and appreciation to Paul as a master teacher, mentor and friend.

To celebrate turning 40, our own Sherene Cauley, Associate Director of The Whole Health Center, created The Whole Health Center 40th Anniversary Celebration Page: https://www.thewholehealthcenter.org/40th-anniversary-celebration. This is not a static web page. It is a living, evolving, creative manifestation of what 40 years of talks, workshops, intensives and retreats at The Whole Health Center have meant to the community of people experiencing and being changed by them. We invite you to add your congratulations, stories, remembrances, poems, pictures and videos to the celebration page, and to check back often as it grows into a beautiful container for witness, love and gratitude.

While looking back with deep thanks and a smile in our hearts, we're also looking forward to a promising and exciting future. As Paul turns 75 in January, he is delicately (and a bit reluctantly!) placing the running and new program offerings of The Whole Health Center into the hands of a new generation of teachers and leaders. The Whole Health Center's Associate Director, Sherene Cauley, a gifted teacher, creative and organizer, is helping us navigate the shift in responsibilities and programming. In the coming months, you will see new courses such as her Grove Immersion Pathway, new workshops, weekly and monthly talks such as her Sound Heart, led by Sherene and an exciting crop of new teachers. Of course, Paul will still be offering the wisdom of his teachings on consciousness, presence, reciprocity and wholeness, as well as counseling with individuals and couples, but he is ready to relinquish the day to day. Heck, he has a few books to write, grandchildren to visit and a growing awareness that this is a time for tending his own inner hearth!

The Whole Health Center is preparing to launch a membership program to address the lack of funding that has plagued the Center for more than a decade. To say The Whole Health Center has run on a shoestring does not accurately reflect the thread by which the Center has hung for quite a while. If it is to continue into a promising future for you, our communities, Coastal Maine and beyond, we need your help as paying participants and generous contributors as often as you can. Information about how to become a sustaining member will land in your e-mail inbox soon. We will also send our annual appeal in December. Please consider both becoming a member and making a gift this year.

Lastly, as the Board of Directors, we end with a request. We've lost several members, recently, and would like to build our ranks again with some new energetic and creative voices. If you have skills and commitment to offer, and would like to play a part in steering The Whole Health Center into its next vital years of responsive service, please respond to one of us.

Again, we invite you to visit The Whole Health Center 40th Celebration page (40th Anniversary Celebration — The Whole Health Center). Take a stroll through 40 years of moving tributes and reflections. Then, add your own. Thank you!

Yours in Love and Celebration,

Katie Bell, katiemuhlfeld@hotmail.com

Ann Hooke, annhooke@gmail.com 

Barbara Thomas, reikibmaryt51@yahoo.com

Holly Winters, holly.winters@att.net

The Whole Health Center

Board of Directors

Reflections from Katie Bell:

"Qigong, then Monday night group. These were my first Whole Health Center experiences. Then it just continued to open and open to me in every way I needed and wanted. Paul’s counseling, dyads, retreats; all new to me, all filling me with me. I was drawn to The Whole Health Center as to a hearth. I began to back myself into myself, and it became a place to return to again and again. A place to practice my me, my us. A place where time stands still."

Please keep an eye on out for emails and social media updates about our virtual celebration.