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     June Keener Wink and Walter Wink do workshops aimed at an encounter with the biblical text that will be transformative for the participants.  She does body movement, drawing on a variety of approaches.  She also leads the group in meditation, work with art, and other integrative events.  Walter facilitates Socratic dialogue about biblical texts.  By thus drawing on the right and left sides of the brain, participants are enabled to experience the texts' meaning at a deeper level than just academic discourse.

     June and Walter have led workshops all over the United States and Canada, as well as in New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, South Korea, East and West Germany, England, Scotland and Ireland.  They spent four months in South and Central America in 1982, studying military dictatorships and the struggle for justice and democracy.  As a result of that trip, Walter's projected study on the principalities and powers grew from a one volume to a three volume work.

     They traveled to South Africa in 1986.  Out of that trip a book emerged, Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa.  3200 copies were sent into South Africa, one by one, to black and white English-speaking clergy.  It seems to have had a significant impact in discussions there.  In 1988, Walter entered South Africa illegally, having been refused a visa, and after leading workshops in nonviolence in Johannesburg and Pretoria, turned himself in to the authorities and was expelled.

     In 1989, Walter was honored by selection as a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.  Part of that year's fellowship involved a five month stay at Oxford University, completing the third volume of the Powers trilogy (Engaging the Powers).

    They live in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts, where they attempt to live the complicated and time-consuming "simple" life, raising their own vegetables, fruits and berries and freezing them for the winter months.  Their home is the location also of June's pottery studio, Wild Thyme Pottery. She specializes in oil lamps, chalices and patens, and majolica (which involves painting on pottery).

     In March 1994, they served as official poll watchers in the Elections in El Salvador.  In December 1994 they did nonviolence training in Mexico around issues raised by the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas.  In 1996 they returned to Northern Ireland to lead workshops on nonviolence, and in 1998 to South Africa at the invitation of Gun Free South Africa.

• March 3-5, 2006
  "Jesus and the Spiral of Violence"
  Unitarian Universal Fellowship
  1590 27th Avenue, Vero Beach, FL 32960
  (On the SE corner of 27th Ave. and 16th St.)
  Contact: Bill Frey, 772-231-5810.
  Reservations: 772-778-5880, VISA and Mastercard accepted.
  
  
• March 24-26, 2006
  “The Powers That Be”
  St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
  Kim Morgan, Carson City, NV
  775-883-1681 or 775-882-1534.
  
  
• May 15-18, 2006
  "Transforming Bible Study"
  Kirkridge Retreat Center
  2495 Fox Gap Rd., Bangor, PA 18013.
  610-588-1793.
  
  
• August 25-28, 2006
  "The Human Face of God"
  Greenbelt, England
  sarah@greenbelt.org.uk
  020-7374-2755 or 020-7374-2731.
  
  
• October 15-17, 2006
  The Harold Beck Lectures
  Massachasetts Bible Society
  41 Bromfield St., Boston, MA 02108.
  617-542-2230.
  
  
• October 27-29, 2006
  "Jesus and the Spiral of Violence"
  Arizona Foundation for Contemporary Theology/Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church
  2331 East Adams St., Tucson, AZ 85719.
  Nancy Linnon