PRESS RELEASE
"Disarming Our Inner Terrorists" is the title of a workshop offered by the Center for Spiritual Living, 1109 Ellen Ave. in Medford on Sunday, May 5th from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.  It is also the theme at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service.

The workshop assists participants in overcoming fearfulness, anxiety, self-doubt, shame, guilt, anger, future dread, depression, unforgiveness and other negative feelings and experience, by using techniques of self-forgiveness developed by the workshop's director, Rev Noel Frederick McInnis.  The cost for the workshop is on a "love offering" basis.

Rev. McInnis has found that, even though doubts, dreads and fears sometimes serve a necessary and valuable function of self-protection, people tend to give them far too much power.

In the workshop, participants learn how to transfer such misplaced power into productive support of positive purposes, such as greater well-being, fulfilling relationships and vocational satisfaction.

Rev. McInnis is a musician, songwriter, poet, storyteller, humorist and ordained minister of the Church of Forgiveness in San Carlos, California.  He was one of the founders of the North American environmental education movement in the 1970's, and the managing editor of Marilyn Ferguson's Brain/Mind Bulletin from 1980-83.  He also conducts a global online ministry focused on the healing power of forgiveness, whose primary objective is the creation of an annual global holiday, International Forgiveness Day, to be observed in each of the world's 300+ nations and territories on the first Sunday of each August.