Woodbrooke Upcoming Courses February 2018 link to pdf
Swarthmoor Hall 2018 Programme Guide link to pdf
Gatherings & conferences
Yearly Meeting 2018
All
Friends (whether in membership or not) are invited to participate in Yearly
Meeting
to be
held at Friends House, London
from 4–7 May 2018. Enclosed in this mailing
is the calling letter
with registration details. Please circulate this letter
to as many Friends in your meeting
as possible.
Keynote speaker at
QPSW Spring Conference announced
23–25 March, The Hayes conference centre, Derbyshire
The keynote
speaker at the QPSW Spring Conference will be Elsie Whittington. Her keynote title is “Awkwardness
as activism:
embracing vulnerability in love, activism
and witness”. The Spring
Conference theme is
‘Journeys of Witness’.
Booking deadline
extended to 11 February!
Kristin Skarsholt, bymevents@quaker.org.uk, 020 7663 1121
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Meetings and mental health
Friends Quarterly – Quakers and mental health
The
theme of the current Friends Quarterly. is mental
health with articles written
by Quakers from a range of perspectives. A complimentary copy
has been sent to us.
Oliver Waterhouse,
oliverw@quaker.org.uk, 020 7663 1007
New
leaflet: Mental health in our meetings
Quaker
Life has just published this new leaflet on mental health in
our meetings. It
offers advice and guidance to help meetings respond
when mental distress is present. It is a helpful resource for those with responsibility for eldership and oversight and useful for all Quakers to be aware of. A copy is available in Meeting and we
can order more.
Spiritual life of the meeting
Experiment with Light
Quaker Life recognises that for some Friends, Experiment with Light can be
a powerful way of deepening
their spiritual life. Experience has shown that the practice
contributes best to the
life of the meeting when
it is undertaken in a group that is in the care of the
meeting and supported by elders. In 2018 Experiment with
Light Network offers opportunities for people with a range of experience
of the practice.
Friends
can find out about the practice from a very basic level of understanding or, as a practitioner, might wish to be immersed
in a 24-hour retreat, or local
meetings might request a workshop.
Angie Dunhill, experimentwithlight@gmail.com
Outreach
Quaker Week 2018
29 September – 7 October
2018
Have you started
planning your outreach for Quaker
Week 2018?
We
hope even more meetings
will get involved this year. Details
of the theme, ideas for activities and a range of resources will be shared over the
next few months. There
will be regular updates in
the clerks mailing and information
on the Quaker Week web
page. Remember for outreach to be most effective you may need to go out
into your local community rather that expecting
people to cross the threshold
of the meeting
house.
Children and young people
Growing as an all age community?
There are
opportunities for meetings
to be helped and supported in developing as all age communities. These are: hosting
one of a range of
workshops, considering how
the new
‘All are welcome’ resource
can be used and inviting
a facilitator to an
area / local meeting event. These are offered by
the volunteer Children and Young People’s Work Training
Team, supported by Quaker
Life staff.
CYP administrator,
cypadmin@quaker.org.uk, 020 7663 1013
Grants
Adult Education grants available
Grants are
available for Quaker members
and attenders continuing their education as mature students within
the post-compulsory education sector, including
vocational, further or higher
education or continuing professional development. The grants are
particularly
aimed at those studying
to equip themselves to serve society
and/or Quakers in Britain. Applicants should be in need of financial
support to take the course and the
course should be offered at a reputable institution
within the UK. Please see the grant-making page of the Quakers in Britain website HERE
Closing date 30 April.
Ann Pfeiffer
annp@quaker.org.uk, 020 7663 1053
Quaker witness
Quakers challenging torture
With
this new leaflet Quaker Concern for the Abolition
of Torture
(Q-CAT) hopes to
raise awareness of the continuing scourge that is torture in the
world today, what Quakers can do about this problem and how to
find out more and get involved. (Erratum: the word ‘use’ is missing at the end of
‘Quakers and Torture’ section
in printed copy that we have.)
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