Quaker Hospitality 1: the ABCs of Hospitality & Welcoming In New Friends

Explore how Meetings can create a welcoming visitor experience that helps newcomers return, and become attenders. 

Register for a 60-75 minute interactive workshop that will inspire you with welcome practices and tools to strengthen your meeting.

Taking a newcomer’s point of view, we’ll identify ways to improve the welcome experience. How do people feel they belong? How are visitors seen, invited, recognized and included into the Quaker community?

Find out what why ‘Quaker curious’ folks return (or not) after initial visits, best practices, and the unique strengths and challenges for Quaker Meetings.

Radical hospitality is rooted in the Quaker understanding there is “that of God in everyone”. Discover why authentic hospitality requires intentionality, meeting-wide participation, reflection, planning and reliable follow-up processes. 

Together we will learn how to:

• Use the Visitor’s Journey to develop a Meeting Hospitality & Welcome Plan with consistent invitation & follow-up processes
• Spot and adopt accessible language in signage, literature, online, speech
• Engage your meeting in a Welcome & Belonging Self Study
• Acknowledge meeting barriers to welcoming new people, while trusting ‘way will open’
• Plan easy entry activities for Seekers to connect to Quakerism at their own pace and level of interest