Ocean of Light Baha'i Summer School
"What a power is love! It is the most wonderful, the greatest of all living powers." ~Abdu'l-Baha
2026 Baha'i Summer School
Session 1: Sat June 27th - Wed July 1st
Session 2: Wed July 1st - Sun July 5th
We are pleased to announce that Ocean of Light will have two sessions of school, hosted again at Seabeck Conference Center on the Hood Canal! Please check back for updates to program details.
Creating Havens of Hope through Social Action, Study, Spirituality, the Arts, and Service
"Ultimately, the power to transform the world is effected by love, love originating from the relationship with the divine, love ablaze among members of a community, love extended without restriction to every human being ...You are channels for this divine love; let it flow through you to all who cross your path."
Universal House of Justice 22 July 2020
Eric Dozier
We are thrilled to have Eric Dozier return this year to lead us in the study of our theme Creating Havens of Hope through Social Action, Study, Spirituality, the Arts and Service. He will be drawing on his work as an educator, blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and member of the Baha'i Faith. More details available on the Program page.
Louise Profeit-LeBlanc
We are also delighted to that Louise will join us for both sessions. Louise was raised in the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun in Yukon Territory, Canada. She will provide art and storytelling sessions centered around the Seven Valleys, and lead our Dawn Prayers.
Ruhi Jahanpour
We are so grateful Ruhi will join us this summer. Ruhi is one of the Baha'i women imprisoned in 1983 for refusing to renounce their Faith. Miraculously, Ruhi was released, but her ten cellmates and dear friends were executed by hanging in June 1983. Ruhi will be sharing stories of these steadfast women and the gift of sacrifice.
Racism is a profound deviation from the standard of true morality. It deprives a portion of humanity of the opportunity to cultivate and express the full range of their capability and to live a meaningful and flourishing life, while blighting the progress of the rest of humankind. It cannot be rooted out by contest and conflict. It must be supplanted by the establishment of just relationships among individuals, communities, and institutions of society that will uplift all and will not designate anyone as “other”. The change required is not merely social and economic, but above all moral and spiritual. Within the context of the framework governing your activities, it is necessary to carefully examine the forces unfolding around you to determine where your energies might reinforce the most promising initiatives, what you should avoid, and how you might lend a distinctive contribution. It is not possible for you to effect the transformation envisioned by Bahá’u’lláh merely by adopting the perspectives, practices, concepts, criticisms, and language of contemporary society. Your approach, instead, will be distinguished by maintaining a humble posture of learning, weighing alternatives in the light of His teachings, consulting to harmonize differing views and shape collective action, and marching forward with unbreakable unity in serried lines.
Ultimately, the power to transform the world is effected by love, love originating from the relationship with the divine, love ablaze among members of a community, love extended without restriction to every human being. This divine love, ignited by the Word of God, is disseminated by enkindled souls through intimate conversations that create new susceptibilities in human hearts, open minds to moral persuasion, and loosen the hold of biased norms and social systems so that they can gradually take on a new form in keeping with the requirements of humanity’s age of maturity. You are channels for this divine love; let it flow through you to all who cross your path. Infuse it into every neighborhood and social space in which you move to build capacity to canalize the society-building power of Bahá’u’lláh’s Revelation. There can be no rest until the destined outcome is achieved.
-- Universal House of Justice, 20 July 2020