YAF Fall Retreat: Navigating Transitions

Register for Navigating Transitions

Calling the Young Adult F/friends community (ages 18-35) from Friday, October 10, from 6:00 p.m. till 12:00 p.m. Sunday, October 12 at Haverford Friends Meeting to explore “navigating transitions” and the future of the Young Adult Friends community.

This is an overnight event. We will be staying at Haverford Friends Meeting on Friday and Saturday night, so don’t forget to pack your sleeping bags, pillows, clothes, necessary bathroom items, medications, and anything else you might need. If you are not able to stay overnight, we invite you to join us instead on Saturday! It is also okay if you are only able to come on Friday or Sunday. Please let us know in the registration that you will be staying for only part of the retreat.

This will be a time for fellowship, worship sharing, and community building. Young Adult Friends will participate in small groups and other activities as we work together to navigate the transitions facing us as a community and as individuals. There will be time for worship throughout the weekend ending with us joining Haverford Friends Meeting on Sunday.

The cost for this event is $40. The funds each Friend pays goes toward the costs of food, activities, and the honoraria for the facilitators. If this cost is at all prohibitive, please reach out to Claire Kinnel at ckinnel@pym.org.

This will be a mask optional event. We will prepare all our meals together. We will be sleeping on the floor of the Meeting House. Please email ckinnel@pym.org if you have any accommodation needs.

Community Expectations:

The Young Adult F/friends community is a collaborative community where we share responsibility and work together to support each of our gatherings. This means, each F/friend is expected to support making and setting up meals, cleaning up dishes and shared areas, collecting and disposing of trash, organizing spaces and activities to their original layout, and other such responsibilities. We welcome each F/friend contributing to the collective work of the Young Adult community in ways that feel comfortable and accessible. We share responsibility to align with our Quaker values of community and service, and to ensure that the task of tending to our community is distributed fairly among F/friends.

Registration closes Wednesday, October 8, 2025.