October Gathering: “When Light Leads: Transformation Is Embraced,” with Cheryl Ragland Pace & Music by Susan Richards

Our 2026-27 Program Year continues on October 11 at 2:00 pm at the Annapolis Friends Meeting. We’ll further explore our theme for the year:

Embracing the Joy of Transformation

Transformation isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you’ve always been.

We spend much of our lives believing we need to fix ourselves. We search for the next book, the next class, the next accomplishment, or the next healing experience hoping it will finally make us enough.

But what if there has never been anything wrong with us?

What if the journey of transformation is actually the journey of remembering?

This presentation invites participants into a different conversation—one that gently shifts the focus from striving to remembering.

BIO:

Cheryl Ragland Pace is the founder of Change Your Pace Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork and Be the Change • Be the Light LLC. She is a licensed massage therapist with more than twenty-two years of experience, a certified hypnotist, Reiki Master Teacher, shamanic practitioner, educator, author, and inspirational speaker. Throughout her career, Cheryl has been passionate about helping people reconnect with themselves by integrating body, mind, and spirit. Her work combines practical healthcare experience with compassionate storytelling and experiential learning. She believes lasting transformation begins not by becoming someone new, but by remembering the wholeness, wisdom, and light that have always existed within us.

Our Music program is offered by Sound Alchemist Susan Richards

Susan Richards is an Energy Alchemist, Reiki Master, and founder of Aha Moments of Self Love, specializing in private one-on-one sessions that support nervous system balance, clarity, and inner alignment. Through personalized work, she helps clients gently release stress, reconnect with themselves, and experience meaningful shifts that extend beyond the session. She also offers immersive Sound Journey Experiences designed to deepen relaxation, awareness, and connection.

The ACT Vision

A Community of Transformation (ACT) is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to transformation in individuals, communities and the earth. We strive to integrate mind, body and spirit to achieve peace, harmony and wisdom.

Our Vision – An inspirational, heart-centered community that nurtures profound transformation.