Purpose of Radiance 

Statement of Purpose

The Radiance Center is a place, an attitude, and an environment where learning and healing take place constantly. It is our deepest honor to continuously create a Center where students are learning not just during classes, but also through the modeling of joyous, integrated, functional living. It is our intention that these students develop their own natural teaching skills, and that the learning/healing ripples out into their own personal lives, their community, and our world. Our method is Unconditional Love expressed through our minds, our hearts and our bodies.  Woven into every single activity and class that the Center provides is our intent to empower students to remember their own inherent Divine Worth. It is not enough to help people “fix” a problem. Rather, it is our passionate intent to help each of them (as well as ourselves) develop skills to constantly return to Integrated Wholeness that will then express itself as health at every level… emotional, physical, mental and spiritual. The Radiance Center offers this training through classes, meditations, service to the community, and practice labs as well as through potlucks, holiday celebrations, special events and support circles. The general public is invited to participate in all of these activities—both as one practicing the Art of Unconditional Loving and/or as one receiving this loving attention. No one is ever turned away from these activities. The Radiance Center is comprised of a wonderfully diverse group of people. It is our joy to remind everyone that we have the resources within to activate our [sometimes dormant] Vitality… and thus create lives that nourish ourselves, and one another. Our community represents a wide range of interests and expertise. We are a full spectrum of... healers,  writers, philanthropists, nurses, artists, midwives, scientists, dancers, musicians, teachers, students... all continuously learning how to support ourselves, together, for our highest good... All of us healing while we celebrate the Art of Unconditional Loving. It is with great pride that we realize that we often cannot distinguish between the givers and the receivers. We encourage people to express both roles, and it works so, so well. People arrive from every walk of life… those of wealth and those who are homeless… those who spend time in solitude, and those who are a strong presence in the world… those who travel the world seeking answers and those who bring the answers from inside their hearts… and those who come simply to bask in the love. The only criteria for becoming part of The Radiance Center is an agreement to participate in the grand experiment of Unconditional Love. Our society has hardened coping mechanisms that we thought would keep us safe and protected… anger, judgment, rules, distance, withdrawal of Love… none of these methods have worked. And so we have created a place for trying a different method… Unconditional love. Everyone who comes through these doors is welcomed with dignity and aloha. Each person is invited to step beyond their perceived limitations and into their Wholeness. Our only question is “How can we help?” The Radiance Center does not charge for any of its services. Donations are welcomed, and never required. Underneath all the activity is a deep river of profound Stillness and Gratitude. Grounded, Joyous Consciousness is the foundation of all we do. Without that base, we would not be able to offer these gifts. All of us would be in such a state of burnout that we would not be able to continue this loving work of education and care. And so, on a regular basis, all the busyness stops and the Center turns into a place of retreat, replenishment and rejuvenation… a Sanctuary. Some of us go into complete retreat to repair our bodies and our spirits through communion with our Source… And always while we are spiritually and emotionally filling up again, others from the Center are giving out the on-going stream of Love. There is always someone to call, someone to hold and cherish and listen. That never goes away.  
Aloha,  
Donna Bradley


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                                           Here at the Radiance Center, we practice Permaculture at every level.                                                              Permaculture of the Earth - Permaculture of the Mind and Emotions - Permaculture of the Body                 - Permaculture of the Spirt.

We practice this by continually returning to balance - to Consciousness through Conscious awareness  -  taking care of ourselves, one another and the earth. We learn to honor our humanity as well as our Divinity. We pay attention when we are depressed or scared or believing our own stories as  well as when we are in bliss. We meditate and we scream with frustration. We acknowledge when we are lonely and need company as well as when we need to be alone in Stillness. 

We don’t pretend that returning to this balance with ourselves and each other is easy or even fun. But we are definitely committed to this sacred practice. The results are so incredibly profound.  People who come in the door even for the first time often say, “What is this peace and joy, that I have never felt before?”.

When we were raising the children, there was a sign on our front door that said
"PREPARE THYSELF TO BE PART OF A MIRACLE"​

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GATHERING THE LOVE

Sunow and I have traveled to many countries. Each time we were left with the desire to bring people from all over the world into our home. We are inspired to create a place where those of all religions, every color, every political system can gather and focus our minds and our hearts toward creating a world more conducive to peace, to joy, to love. 

Of course, we have been inviting people into our lives for the entire  years of our marriage… And our new home for the Radiance Center will allow a spaciousness, a grace, a beauty - to transformation of ourselves and therefore the world. 

We want to convene experts of both the mind and the heart from all over the world to inform and inspire us about issues that effect us all... global warming… world hunger… racism… gender shaming... death and dying… suicide.

May our new home recharge and renew each of us to become living proof that there is a different way to live our lives.

BEYOND OURSELVES

And finally, we need to take this knowing about what is possible beyond ourselves. Therefore, we are developing an apprenticeship program. We are mentoring students into creating their own version of functional spirituality for an empowered community to share this unconditional love with the world. 

There really is a way for people to make a living without selling their souls. There is definitely a way for loved ones to be in relationships without giving up their own truth. And there are so very many ways to leave the world better than we found it without sacrifice or burn-out. 

May the Radiance Center be living proof of such ease and grace… such surprise and delight.