Tim Flinders graduated with honors
from the University of California,
Berkeley where he studied English and Sanskrit literature. An educator
and writer, he has worked with gifted children for over two decades, and
has written about gifted education, Gandhian nonviolence, and health
and spirituality. His writings on nonviolence appear in Gandhi the Man
and
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam.
He is also the author of The RISE Response: Illness,
Wellness and Spirituality. Tim is a Fellow of the Spirituality and
Health Institute, Santa Clara University where he has taught courses on
contemplative spirituality. His recent article on the Muslim Gandhi can be
found
here. And his book on gifted girls,
Power and Promise, can be found
here.

What we are . .
.
At Two Rock Institute, we are
working to create a new kind of human story, one that fills in some gaps
left in our history, while charting new possibilities for today and
tomorrow. It’s an ancient story that imagines life as a web of meaning and
purpose, and seeks to restore the sacred to the everyday.
You can learn more about parts of this story throughout this website.

Where we are . .
.
Two Rock Institute exists only
here, on the web, a virtual but very real interchange between like-minded
folk who are working for a more peaceable and sustainable future for their
children.
Two Rock is a
real place, north of
San Francisco, a
lovely knoll of grass and Eucalyptus topped by twin granite rocks that
look out over the valley near where we have lived in community for the
past thirty years. There’s a volunteer fire department where the road
passes just below the knoll, and dairy cows graze the hillside.
We like to think
that Two Rock was sacred to the Native Americans who inhabited the valley
for more than three millennia, its twin knobs presiding graciously over
the grasslands that surround it. We made it the name of our institute
because of this sense of a sacred history – a real
place, peopled and loved.
It’s our belief
that if everyday life is to become sacred, then the places we inhabit must
be lived in with commitment and reverence. Medieval European monastics
believed this very thing, and took a vow of stabilitas, to stay
put. We take no vows ourselves, but we have indeed stayed put.
Thanks for visiting us.