Coordinator of the TOS healing network, Diane Eisenberg, who conducts the ritual at Olcott every Wednesday, invited us to attend a meeting during our stay.  Here we see Olcott regulars at one of their weekly meetings. 

A truly beautiful brochure offering the services of the American healing network has just been produced.  It explains the services offered and invites TOS members and friends from anywhere in the world to write in for help for themselves or others.  You can read the brochure on our website.

The National Director of the TOS in Canada and her faithful TOS supporter Henning could not be with us for the conference for health reasons.  Read Lorraine’s moving message about the help the TOS’s healing network has brought them.

During refreshment time one evening, participants signed cards to dear absent TOS members and friends.  Here we see people enjoying recording loving thoughts on the series of cards beautifully designed and brought by Susan Bayliss who joined us from England.

From “Links of Love” to “Locks of Love”! Quite a number of American TOS members have grown their hair and donated it for wigs for people who have lost their own hair through illness of one kind or another. At our conference, the President of the TOS, Nancy Secrest, joined the donors when she had her long hair cut off by Olcott staff member and amateur stylist, Juliana Cesano. We clapped her heartily.

Teddies for tragedy is a project well known to most of us now since so many TOS members and friends participate in it by knitting teddies to provide comfort for children affected by war, natural disaster or illness. At the conference we noted the official thanks recently presented by the International Aid Trust to the TOS in England for reaching the 12,000 mark. (Yes, that is 12,000 teddies knitted!)

Those representing the TOS in Italy and France at the conference brought two suitcases full of teddies for members from Kenya and Tanzania to take home with them for delivery to children in need.

Participants from the USA, Tanzania, Kenya, India, New Zealand, England and France spontaneously donated gifts for sale. Over US$1,300 was raised for our TOS projects at the ‘bazaar’.

A much more rapid way of raising funds than sales in the ‘bazaar’ was demonstrated with skill and high humour by Tim Boyd and David Bland. In a lively atmosphere and heart-warming generosity, members bid on items signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Approximately $1,100 was raised in 15 minutes!

Shortly after, some of the women present decided to show Tim and David how to raise money even more rapidly by auctioning off Tim and David themselves.

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