New Thought Center of Hawai`i
A Sanctuary of Aloha for the nourishment, development, and evolution of each individual's unique spiritual path.
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We are located at:
Pualani Terrace,
81-6587 Mamalahoa Hwy
Building C302 in Kealakekua,
next door to Antiques and Ice Cream (large red building on makai/ocean side of the highway. From south we are on the left, just a few tenths of a mile past Konawaena School Road traffic light.
Phone: 808-323-2232
for email: [email protected]
for mail: P.O. Box 333, Kealakekua, HI 96750
Our facilities are handicap friendly with lots of paved parking area.
Childcare is provided at Sunday morning services.
For more information about New Thought, a map and what we offer please visit our website at:
www.newthoughtcenterofhawaii.com
Our officers for the year 2025 are:
Lia Segerblom
President
Jaime McEwen
Vice President
Pasha MacGregor,
Treasurer
Cindy Sweeney
Secretary
Ramona Owen
Recording Secretary
Welcome!
SUNDAY, June 29, 2025
10 AM
Upcoming Presenters
7/6: Arliss Dudley-Cash: "Breaking the Sound Barrier of Belief: Going Beyond Limits," music by Joe Conti
7/13: Stanzie Langtree, "Finding Energetic Alignment," program & music
7/20: Alison Yahna, music by Dick Franklin
7/27: Sakshi & Atese, program & music
8/3: Kumu Keala Ching, program & music
8/10: Michael Sudman, music by John Pierre Thoma
8/17: Tanya Ranguelova
8/31: Dr. Richard Stevens, "The Law of Attraction, Pule Power and the Magical Tree
of Palamanui."
9/21: Fall Equinox, Kaimana Lighthawk
9/28: New Thought Center of Hawaii Birthday Celebration #54
10/5: Arliss Dudley-Cash
11/2: Kumu Keala Ching, program & music
Events page or click HERE
For more information about workshops go to our Events Page
For links to archived speaker videos on YouTube, visit our Archives of Speakers
My Training as a Zen Priest:
How it Guides My Life & Work
With
Jill Wagner
Music by Ola Sangels
In our present time, there are many factors that cause people anxiety. It feels like time is speeding up, people are taking in social media as an everyday activity.
The loss of biodiversity is also clearly evident and we are having more extreme weather, among many other alarming events — it seems ever more important to make space for silence, to reflect, and to step out of action to listen to one’s heart.
In this presentation, Jill Wagner will speak about her experiences in the formal study of Zen Buddhism through the White Plum Lineage with Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse, and through Soto Shu with Reverend Jiko Nakade.
The training has been a foundational life experience and it continues to inform her in her life’s work.
Jill is an environmentalist and horticulturist whose work is focused on service to the Earth. She is a forest restorationist and seed bank specialist, and the founder and director of the Hawaiʻi Island Seed Bank. Jill helps people throughout the world to save their native seeds so they can build resiliency and have the resources they need to conduct restoration of native ecosystems, and save food crop seeds for sustainability. This work requires cooperation, empathy, loyalty, compassion and dedication. Those values are taught and cultivated in Buddhist practice.
Jill has been the owner of Future Forests Nursery for 30 years, specializing in tropical hardwood species and native Hawaiian species for restoration. She has held a Federal Threatened and Endangered Species permit with the State of Hawaii since 2008. She has been doing forest restoration projects for the State of Hawaiʻi, the National Park Service, the Department of Hawaiian Homelands, Kamehameha Schools, Pu’u Wa’a Wa’a Ranch, US Fish & Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, O’oma State Forest, and numerous private landowners.
Jill also works with many global forestry projects by conducting project design, including infrastructure development, due diligence, training, and cultivating key strategic partnerships. Her focus is on biodiversity preservation. Jill designs seed banks and provides training in seed banking all over the world to help projects scale, to support regional biodiversity, and to provide a valuable resource for the next generation.
For more information and to donate go to www.josephrockarboretum.org
