Healthy and Effective Committees: Overview
Saturday, February 25 9:15-3:30, Friends Center
Committees support our our efforts to bring our faith and practice to life. Whether it's a committee to plan First Day School, to manifest peace in the world or to care for property, committees are the structure that allow us to do the work of our community and to respond to Light. However, the fact that committees are ubiquitous does not ensure that we always have all the skills that enable them to be healthy, nurturing and effective.
This We Can Do It Day focuses on skills that support a committee's ability to function in a manner that responds to Spirit, cares for members, and effectively gets work done.
Over 60 Friends gathered at Friends Center for this event to learn, share wisdom, meet new people and have fun together. Over the course of the day we began putting together the basics of "Best Practices" for effective and healthy committees. To get a taste of the day, you can review the report of the Day, schedule, workshop descriptions and some documents shared in the workshops. Click on the links below to explore these resources.
- Healthy and Effective Committees Field Manual of Best Practices
- Report
- Schedule
- Workshop Descriptions
- Workshop Handouts: Effective Love - Getting Things Done in our Committees:
-Friends and their Leaders
-The Servant as Leader
-Friends and Leadership: Thoughts for PYM "We Can Do It Day"
- Workshop Handout: Clerking a Committee for Fun, Community and Results
-Clerking a Committee for Fun, Community and Results
- Workshop Handout: Discernment in a Committee
-Spiritual Discernment in Committees: Quotes for Reflection
- Workshop Handouts: Many Committees, One Organism:
-Key Elements in a Vibrant Meeting
-Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting Handbook Table of Contents
Questions and Contact Information
Hannah Mayer, Volunteer Coordinator
Hmayer [at] pym [dot] org; 215-241-7000
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
1515 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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