Workshop: A Rightly Ordered Life: The Simplicity Testimony, Then and Now
Zoom PAHow do you listen inwardly for what to prioritize? How do you discern, in community, a sense of collective simplicity? The workshop’s focus is on the Simplicity testimony – how […]
Workshop: Humble Walk Bears Fruit
Zoom PAIn and of itself, the PYM First-Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is a revolutionary platform toward Divine Right Relations with Lenape People, stemming from our community’s historic intentions. Utilizing Micah 6:8 as […]
Workshop: When Spirit Calls: Engaging the Challenges of MInistry
Zoom PAMay 25, 2021, 6:00pm – 8:30pm When Spirit Calls: Engaging the Challenges of Ministry God calls each of us to something. The challenge often is recognizing the call, discerning what […]
Workshop: F/friends in Unlikely Places: Engaging with Those Who Do Not Agree with You
Zoom PAMay 27, 2021, 6:00-8:30pm F/friends in Unlikely Places: Engaging with Those Who Don’t Agree with You Does talking with legislators who do not agree with you feel like an exercise in futility? In this workshop, we’ll make the case for engaging legislators with differing views and discuss how to have those conversations faithfully and effectively. […]
Building a Sustainable Future: How Friends Can Take Action
Zoom PAFacilitated by the Eco-Justice Collaborative of PYM, this engaging workshop will help Friends find their role in speaking 'truth to power' about the climate crisis and structural racism. Participants will learn what Friends are already doing at the local, state, and federal level and how they can take action. Our climate emergency requires ‘all hands […]
Workshop: Community Safety Beyond Policing
Zoom PAJune 3, 2021 Community Safety Beyond Policing We want everyone in our community to feel safe and be treated with the dignity and respect that we all deserve. How can we make this happen? This workshop explores how we can create safe, healthy communities without law enforcement. We will take the yearly meeting through stories, […]
Workshop – Using Your Power: Changemaking and the Future of Quakerism
Zoom PAJune 10, 2021 Using Your Power: Changemaking and the Future of Quakerism Given demographic trends over the past 30 years, Quakerism is in danger of ceasing to be a faith in the next 20 to 40 years. This is a workshop for changemakers and people who feel led to support the future of the Society […]
Workshop – Wrestling with Israel-Palestine: Equality, Rights, Justice, and the Future
Zoom PAThe complex issues of Israel and Palestine cloud the vision of moving toward peace with justice and equality. The workshop will begin with attention to the experience and connections that attendees have to the region in a worship sharing manner. We will show a short film to focus on one aspect of the issue. Discussion […]
Social Justice Workshop for Youth and Adult Presences with Mai Spann-Wilson
Zoom PADuring the week of Annual Sessions (July 27 - August 1), the Young Friends program community will have a special multigenerational workshop opportunities with activist, artist, social work educator, and Sessions keynote speaker Mai Spann-Wilson, M.S.W.. The work together will begin with this program time for ADULT PARTICIPANTS during the Runway to Annual Sessions. This […]