Community Calendar

The award-winning OSU Land Steward training helps landowners learn about their property and develop a management plan. This 11-week program covers critical topics like wildfire risk reduction, forests, soil health, wildlife habitat, pasture management, stream care, water capture and distribution, and much more.

Parent Project is a 10-week series where we go over topics like improving family relationships, using effective discipline to improve school attendance and performance, reduce substance use and negative peer influences, and how to address destructive behavior. It is an opportunity to meet with other parents in similar situations in a judgement free zone and begin to develop a new support system. When you feel like you have tried everything and nothing is working, we can help.
Join us on Tuesdays at the Gene Lucas Community Center beginning September 30th from 6pm-8pm. Dinner and Childcare are provided.
707-617-8160

Marly Benedicto explores how the Divine Feminine Success Codes are lived through the body – in voice, intimacy and authentic relationships. What does it mean to redefine success through feminine cycles of creativity and nourishment? How can voice activation help us reclaim power and deepen intimacy? She helps individuals and couples dissolve patterns rooted in trauma or cultural conditioning and step into relationships that honor their wholeness. With a gentle style, intuitive yet uncompromisingly clear, Marly meets each client where they are and guides them toward the love and intimacy they most desire.

Marly Benedicto is a relationship coach and writer devoted to helping people reclaim intimacy, and awaken the fullness of their creative, embodied selves. Whether guiding a client through an intimacy breakthrough or designing community-based regenerative projects, she inculcates truth, freedom and helping people remember that love is something we generate, embody and share as the foundation for a new world.

The award-winning OSU Land Steward training helps landowners learn about their property and develop a management plan. This 11-week program covers critical topics like wildfire risk reduction, forests, soil health, wildlife habitat, pasture management, stream care, water capture and distribution, and much more.

In this fun, safe “hands-on” science experimentation program, join us in the lab and learn how to extract the color pigment from markers, leaves, and even your favorite Halloween candies. Using paper chromatography we will unravel what colors and dyes make up some of the things we see (and eat) every day.
Ages 6-12 (Parents may drop off or participate for free).

Instructor Bios: Tori Wood is the JCC Volunteer and Facility Coordinator. She has a background in laboratory science and is incredibly excited to help foster a love of science and learning in the community. Sarah Greco is the JCC Youth and Family Programs Coordinator and a Jacksonville mom. With a background in early childhood education and devolopmental psychology, she is passionate about protecting and celebrating childhood and supporting parents in the community.

Art Academy with Alisha B. Whitman
6 Sessions, Wednesdays,
October 8–November 12
4pm–5:30pm
Ages 7–11

This after school program serves as an introduction to the arts for children 7-11. Students will engage with the elements and principles of art using a variety of media including drawing, painting, and collage. Class will focus on fun as they build foundational skills and explore their endless creativity.

Members: $85 Non-Members: $95 ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED

In a time when conversations so often fracture along lines of “us versus them,” this workshop offers a path toward curiosity, collaboration, and connection.

How to Build a Bridge invites you into a 90-minute live session exploring how humility, nuance, and media literacy can open the way for genuine understanding across divides.
🧠 What You’ll Learn
• The Power of Humility: Why admitting “I don’t know everything” creates space for growth and dialogue.
• Beyond Black-and-White Thinking: How stereotyping and psychological splitting keep us trapped, and tools to embrace complexity instead.
• Unlearning and Rethinking: Insights inspired by Adam Grant on when to let go of old narratives and identities that no longer serve.
• Rewriting the Story of “Us vs. Them”: How to shift from survival-driven division toward collaboration and empathy.
• Media Literacy for Bridge-Building: Recognizing framing, negativity bias, and the illusion of truth shaped by repetition.
• Viewpoint Diversity as a Strength: How encountering different perspectives sharpens your thinking and strengthens collective problem-solving.
🌎 Why This Matters
Studies like Hidden Tribes and the Perception Gap reveal that Americans are less polarized than we think—but our misperceptions fuel division. By learning to step outside rigid narratives, we can create spaces where curiosity thrives and solutions emerge.
This event isn’t about erasing differences. It’s about learning how to hold them with nuance, so that we can work together without shutting each other out.
👥 Who It’s For
This workshop is designed for:
• Leaders, educators, and facilitators who want to foster dialogue across differences.
• Anyone tired of polarization who wants practical tools for connection.
• Curious thinkers ready to unlearn shortcuts and embrace complexity.

Facilitator Bio: Marla Estes has a background in psychology. She observes how easily we mistake certainty for wisdom, and how, in politics, our convictions can become the very thing that blocks true understanding. In 2017, she founded Building Bridgers to address political polarization. Through her work, she teaches skills and habits of mind that help people overcome barriers to understanding, recognize the validity in opposing views, and approach complex problems with openness. Her work fosters curiosity, humility, and genuine connection across divides.
Reserve your spot today and take a step toward bridging divides with humility, curiosity, and courage.

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The award-winning OSU Land Steward training helps landowners learn about their property and develop a management plan. This 11-week program covers critical topics like wildfire risk reduction, forests, soil health, wildlife habitat, pasture management, stream care, water capture and distribution, and much more.

We are a Zen practice community in the Diamond Sangha lineage founded by Robert Aitken Rōshi. We provide zazen(meditation) instruction, weekly zazen, practice talks, Dharma discussions and more.

The award-winning OSU Land Steward training helps landowners learn about their property and develop a management plan. This 11-week program covers critical topics like wildfire risk reduction, forests, soil health, wildlife habitat, pasture management, stream care, water capture and distribution, and much more.