Workshops

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Eco Justice: EMERGE

In Person Workshops

Non-Theism and Friends

Online Workshops

In Person Workshops

Creating a PYM Composting Network

Digging Into the Graveyard: Everything You Are Dying to Know

In the Non-Theism and Friends workshop participants will explore the relationship between theist and nontheist Quakers, briefly introducing varying types of nontheism, online nontheist groups, and resources for further inquiry. Participants will consider queries on individual beliefs and how they’re accepted in monthly meetings and the wider Quaker world.

Building a Strong Self and Engaging Community focuses on self-regulation through exercises from the Art of Embodied Peacemaking of Aikido by Sensei Paul Linden, as well as care of others through a series of paired discussions on an endearing quality, what’s personally important, taking a risk with friends & strangers, and sharing when asked one’s sense of spirit.

An FCNL staff member will provide their policy expertise on our legislative priorities of ending the war with Iran and sending aid to the Middle East, not arms, to Israel. We will answer the query of how we can use our personal stories to advocate to end U.S. involvement in war. Participants will share thoughts and write letters to their members of Congress.

Strong and stable monthly meetings are the foundation of a thriving yearly meeting. This is why we are so grateful for the Friends who carry stewardship or fundraising work for their meetings! Join us for this collaborative discussion on how we can ensure that meetings have the financial resources they need to thrive.

This workshop is designed to help Friends find the moral courage to meet the current crisis by sharing their fears and worries about our moral and political crisis, and discussing the actions they are taking to defend our democracy and restore peace. Participants will look ahead to the significant, urgent opportunities for change.

Come hear one of the newest Faith & Play Stories to be released: “Sarah Mapps Douglass and the Truth of the Back Bench — a story about making choices for yourself and for change.” This will be a full story session for all ages, including wondering together and time for individual response with art materials and other choices

Friends attending will be asked to consider endorsing the Quaker joint statement on Genocide and/or approving the Apartheid-Free Pledge. Small and large group discussions will consider issues as Friends are urged to take one or both, Genocide statement and Apartheid-Free pledge, to individual MMs and QMs for approval.

Jesse White, PYM’s 2026 Artist-in-Residence for annual sessions, will guide you in how to write poems that leave space for Spirit in this experiential writing workshop. Drawing on her creative project that incorporates bookmaking, drawing, and poetry, we will write poems that hold the greatness of our spiritual gifts. Participants are invited to consider the use of space and silence in their writing both on the page and in the reading of their poems. Participants are also encouraged to submit their spiritual gifts poems for inclusion in the giant book Jesse is creating. This program is best for Friends 13+, and self-described “non-poets” are especially welcome to try something new in this safe and brave writing workshop.

This workshop will introduce participants to national efforts to counter the mass incarceration of young people. We will explore how to limit entry points, reduce harm, and confront disparities in the system. The workshop will include pair and small group discussions with a focus on alternatives to our current abusive and discriminatory laws and practices.

If we’re going to sustain and nurture life through crises, we’ll need to engage our love for planet Earth. Without love, what would inspire us to connect the dots between a butterfly, and the way we treat the land around us? An Experiment w/ Light based on the EMERGE values can be this catalyst. We’ll use breakout rooms, biomimicry, queries, art, & meditation..

Have you ever sat through a bad report? What makes an effective report at business meeting? How to prepare? How to present? How to follow up? Participants will practice using a checklist to support themselves and others in their meeting to deliver helpful reports that clarify the topic, present their proposal, and gather Friends around a faithful decision.

Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaboartive members will share briefly about the collaborative’s goals and work. We will present a short video about the Memorial to the Lost and speak about its purpose. We will introduce a guiding query, followed by small group sharing and a period of worship outside with the Memorial to the Lost. We’ll use music, art and writing to help folks process responses.

Sacred Texts are the foundational documents describing God’s on-going work in the world. This Bible study will explore three passages from the New Testament and Torah to define, enrich and deepen our understanding of our relationship to God and each other. We will look at the themes of community, compassion and choice as the key concepts of what it means to be a Friend in this turbulent time.

An FCNL staff member will provide their policy expertise on our legislative priorities of ending the war with Iran and sending aid to the Middle East, not arms, to Israel. We will answer the query of how we can use our personal stories to advocate to end U.S. involvement in war. Participants will share thoughts and write letters to their members of Congress.

Centering lives of Quaker-adjacent Black freedom seekers and fighters, this workshop opens a window into revolutionary change in the 1770s, a decade when calls for liberty resounded across the colonies even as human enslavement persisted. In the context of the U.S. War of Independence, both people of African descent and Quakers made divergent choices shaped by circumstance, survival, and conscience. Black resistance and Quaker witness collided and overlapped, opening painful contradictions as well as surprising possibilities. Guided by their call to “Do Justice Without Delay,” we open doors to continuing freedom work today.

Facilitation of an exercise from Aikidoist Paul Linden (being-in-movement.com) practicing centering & expanding awareness in all directions. 2 concentric circles with pairs speaking in turn of self affirmation, risk taking, and a sense of spirit. Practicing a movement of self care and care of the other. Game, central leading & reflection on what learned.

Offering Friends the knowledge, opportunity, and tools to expand their environmental activism at home and in the community to and assist with PYM’s benchmarking goals for reduced carbon output from Friends organizations and activities.

You may have heard of War Games, but have you heard of Peace Games? This simulation introduces participants to the challenges and opportunities of multi-track negotiating and peacebuilding, encouraging new ways of thinking about Northeast Asian regional issues.

This interactive workshop outlines how to establish and sustain an Outreach Committee, drawing on successful practices and lessons learned at Radnor Meeting. Through short “lecturettes”, activities such as ” reverse speed dating”, queries, & breakout groups, participants will learn the full process—from formation to implementing projects-building confidence.

An overview of the various components involved in maintaining your meeting’s burial ground. Building on the presentation Friends gave at PYM’s Stewardship & Governance Thread Gathering on January 24, 2024. Topics covered will include record keeping, care of headstones & property, succession planning, and how to conduct historical research of Friends interred. This Workshop is offsite.

Kindred of the Wild is an outdoor church. In this workshop we will sing, share, laugh and possibly cry, but most of all we will listen to the more than human beings that surround us our kin. We will wander and then come back together for worship sharing. We will listen to the land and the trees, the birds and animals and we will do it all outside.