# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Lightworker's Way Forward Workshop - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 12 Jul, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sun, 12 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: Discover how to maintain your inner peace while engaging with life’s challenges and responding with greater intention and clarity.About this EventThe Lightworker's Way Forward WorkshopJoin Rev. Christie Hardwick for an interactive workshop and readings from her newly released book, The Absence of Light: Radical Accountability and a Way Forward.In a time of deep division and uncertainty, how are we being called to respond—and what part have we each played in the world we hope to heal?With honesty, courage, and compassion, Christie reflects on the limits of her own care, learning, and action, revealing how radical accountability can lead not to shame or blame, but to healing, clarity, and a more empowered way forward.Come share in Christie’s journey and reflect on your own through readings, conversation, and guided exploration.During the workshop, expect to have feelings that will be followed by discernment, and that discernment can lead to right contemplation and inspired action.The Absence of LIght: Radical Accountability and a Way Forward is available in Unity’s Bookstore or online through Amazon. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/7d8787a0-7245-11f1-ae58-237475d85463-rimg-w555-h740-dcddd1c0-gmir.jpg A reader recently wrote:This book is a brave inventory in service to us all... the honest accountability of it... the humanness of it... the invitation to witness her... and you... and us all. This book is the opposite of fear and scarcity and invites us into community with (all of) each other at a time where many feel powerless and alone. The end of the book makes liberatory space for abundance and joy and an actionable path forward. (KK Kendrick)Amazon's Description of Christie’s Book:What if the greatest threat to justice isn't the people fighting against it, but the good people who looked away?Christie Hardwick had the career, the causes, the spiritual practices, and the best of intentions. She wrote checks to nonprofits, voted in every election, and believed love would prevail. But when the cracks in democracy widened, she was forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: good intentions are not the same as action.The Absence of Light is a raw, unflinching self-inventory, a confession from a Black woman, ordained minister, former tech executive, and leadership coach who examines how privilege, comfort, and spiritual bypassing kept her from showing up when it mattered most.This is not a book about shame. It is a blueprint for what comes next: how comfort zones and echo chambers quietly erode civic engagement, why "checkbook activism" soothes our conscience but fails our communities, how spiritual practices can shield us from the very pain meant to wake us up, a practical framework for radical accountability without self-destruction, and the path from remorse through self-forgiveness to renewed, meaningful engagement.For anyone who has ever wondered: Am I doing enough? Did my silence contribute to this? And what do I do now? https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/7dd5f5c0-7245-11f1-ae58-237475d85463-rimg-w555-h740-dc798a61-gmir.jpg About Christie Hardwick:Christie is an award-winning leader and leadership coach with over 40 years’ experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors. She’s been a high-tech executive, non-profit board leader and an elected school trustee.Rev. Christie is ordained with The Centers for Spiritual Living, a published author of three books, a leadership development coach and gmama (grandma) to seven grandchildren. She and her wife Jane are living the Unity community! - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/walnut-creek/the-lightworkers-way-forward-workshop/100001992526769204 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Workshops, Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 23.18, max: 23.18, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Walnut Creek - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Unity of Walnut Creek - **lat**: 37.9258718 - **long**: -122.0726701 - **full address**: Unity of Walnut Creek, 1871 Geary Road, Walnut Creek, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Lightworker's Way Forward Workshop - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/68f1363164beba4960332adb7daf6a2202de5e16daec2ad96c4c9f21ea4902da-rimg-w476-h223-dc070101-gmir.jpg?v=1782577866 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Lightworker's Way Forward Workshop being held? - **A:** The Lightworker's Way Forward Workshop takes place on Sun, 12 Jul, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 12 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Unity of Walnut Creek, 1871 Geary Road, Walnut Creek, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Lightworker's Way Forward Workshop? - **A:** The Lightworker's Way Forward Workshop is organized by Unity of Walnut Creek. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Lightworker's Way Forward Workshop", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/68f1363164beba4960332adb7daf6a2202de5e16daec2ad96c4c9f21ea4902da-rimg-w476-h223-dc070101-gmir.jpg?v=1782577866", "startDate": "2026-07-12", "endDate": "2026-07-12", "url": "https://allevents.in/walnut-creek/the-lightworkers-way-forward-workshop/100001992526769204", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Unity of Walnut Creek", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1871 Geary Road", "postalCode": "94597", "addressLocality": "Walnut Creek", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "37.9258718", "longitude": "-122.0726701" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Discover how to maintain your inner peace while engaging with life’s challenges and responding with greater intention and clarity.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-21", "availabilityEnds": "2026-07-12", "validFrom": "2026-08-21", "lowPrice": "23.18", "highPrice": "23.18", "price": "23.18", "url": "https://allevents.in/walnut-creek/the-lightworkers-way-forward-workshop/100001992526769204" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-21", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-08-21", "url": "https://allevents.in/walnut-creek/the-lightworkers-way-forward-workshop/100001992526769204", "price": "23.18", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Unity of Walnut Creek", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/unity-of-walnut-creek/18504437" } ] } ] ```