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Sunday Assembly East Bay

Sunday Assembly East Bay

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South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St, Berkeley, CA, 94703
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We celebrate living our lives at Sunday Assembly! We’re a non-religious community that meets up to enjoy each other’s company, do service projects, provide mutual support, and have fun. It's true that we gather on one Sunday per month, and although there is an order to our meeting, there’s no religious dogma! Instead, we have speakers on wide-ranging topics, sing fun pop tunes, and have potluck lunch together. And we also get together to have book clubs, meet up at restaurants, go on hikes, see movies, and lots more.

Our guest speaker this month will be Maude Wilson.

Maude ushers in SAEB's 2026 with love, joy, and possibility. Life presents moments that require us to pause, reflect, grieve, celebrate, or to begin again. We must mourn loss, whether it's in our personal lives or in the wider world around us. Tending our grief is the way through. As January is a time of renewal, Maude will tell us about some of the profound experiences she's had witnessing how beginnings spring from endings.

Chaplain Maude is a certified death doula who hosts the podcast “Growing Through Grief.” She holds space for tender, complex, and transformative moments—whether that’s the tension of a family discussion or the sacred hush of the end of life. Rooted in the wisdom of her African American ancestors, she follows a calling to tend to what’s hurting, unspoken, or in need of healing, walking with others through grief, transition, reconciliation, and renewal, toward wellness.

Sunday Assemblies are a growing global movement with chapters in Europe, Australia, and many other parts of the United States. Our motto is "Live better, help often, wonder more!”

10:30 am—Chat before the program

11:00 am—Speaker, Songs, Laughs and Thoughts

12:00 pm—Potluck lunch...please bring food to share

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