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Spiritual Formation Collaborative

In 1999 the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Program was brought to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting by a Friend who learned about it at Companions Along the Way, a religious education conference sponsored by PYM. This nine-month program of spiritual deepening and community building has been offered at PYM ever since. The Spiritual Formation Working Group of eleven Friends who organized this program has become the Spiritual Formation Program Collaborative and is excited about its continuing work.

Through these years many dozens of Meetings and hundreds of Friends have been impacted by the Spiritual Formation Program. A new energy and life have come to the program, as dialogue with BYM is encouraging new creativity and flexibility in the ways that the program is being thought of and organized. The Collaborative is hoping this new energy will invite many PYM Friends to take on new leadership roles in this work.


Mission

Our mission is to offer programs that enable PYM Friends to deepen and strengthen their personal and corporate spiritual lives, and build more intimate Spirit-led community within their Meetings.


What We Do

Our collaborative meets regularly to oversee making this program available to Monthly and Quarterly Meeting groups of Friends and to gathered Yearly Meeting Friends. In our work, we have always tried our best to let God be in charge and to discern at the moment how we can stay true to that desire. We form small teams of trainers who plan and lead the workshops of the program.


Who We Are

  • Jane Cadwallader, Lancaster MM
  • Lynne Graham, Wellsboro MM
  • Katherine Johnson, Third Haven MM
  • Wendy Kane, PYM Program Committee Contact
  • Diane Kesler, Patuxent MM
  • Dale Myrtetus, Middletown (Bucks) MM
  • Charles Randall, Media MM
  • Susan Thompson, Newtown MM, clerk
  • Wanda Wyffels, Abington MM, webmaster
  • Wade Wright, Lancaster MM 

Our email addresses and phone numbers are on the “Interested in SF?” page.


When We Meet

We usually have meetings every other month on a Saturday, and often at Plymouth Monthly Meeting, from 10 AM to 2 PM.  * During COVID-19, we are meeting via Zoom. See Schedule (in right menu) for dates of our meetings and our Spiritual Formation Programs.

Our new direction, modeled on the way that Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s program has evolved, possibly will involve two Yearly Meeting retreats a year that invite anyone who has the desire, or who has participated in Spiritual Formation to come together for renewal and leadership development. These Friends will hopefully leave these retreats inspired and transformed and will return to their home communities ready to lead in this work and help it spread in our Yearly Meeting.

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Spiritual Formation Collaborative

  • Spiritual Formation Collaborative
  • Calendar
  • SF 2020 Pre-Annual Sessions Retreat
  • Comments on Pre-Retreats
  • 2021 SFC Weekend Retreat
  • The SF Program
    • Program Retreats
    • Two Types of Groups
      • Friendship/Accountability Groups
      • Reading Groups
        • Reading List
        • Guide to Reading Woolman’s Journal
        • Videos tied to Reading List Categories
        • Additional Reading List by Topic I
        • Additional Reading List by Topics II
        • Alternatives for Reading List
        • Eldering in Reading Groups
        • Reading Roles
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      • Directions for Spiritual Disciplines List
  • Testimonials
  • Interested in SF?
  • For Facilitators
    • Brochure
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    • Friendship/Accountability Groups
      • Bieber’s The Spiritual Companions Group
      • Larrabee’s SFP Groups
      • Palmer’s Circle of Trust
      • Spiritual Practices – Bible Study
      • Spiritual Practices – Examen
      • Spiritual Practices – Eating Mindfully
      • Spiritual Practices – Journaling
      • Spiritual Practices – Journaling Workshop using Poetry
      • Spiritual Practices – Lectio Divina
    • Spiritual Gifts
      • Beth’s Spiritual Gifts Inventory List
      • Terrell-Wood’s Spiritual Gifts Self Survey
      • Wright’s Discernment of Spiritual Gifts and Ministries
    • Telling Our Spiritual Journey Story
      • Kidd’s The Crucible of Story
      • Life, Seed, Light
      • Macy’s Rhythms of the Inner Life
    • Organizing Issues
      • Bringing Spiritual Formation to Your Meeting
      • On Placing Participants in Groups
      • Elders and Eldering
      • Thoughts on Eldering
      • Wright’s Some Important Learnings
      • To Do List for Lead Trainer
    • Retreats
      • Retreats – Goals, Expectations, Assumptions
      • Sample Opening Retreat
      • Mid-Year Retreat Goals
      • Sample Mid-Year Retreat
      • Mid-Year Retreat Paint Paste Workshop
      • Goals of Closing Retreat
      • Sample Closing Retreat
      • Sample Closing Retreat

Contacts

Wade Wright, Clerk
w9a8d7e6w@epix.net
(215) 779-0752

Wanda Wyffels, Webmaster
wwyffels@gmail.com
(267) 918-3671

What is a Collaborative?

Collaboratives are networks of individual Quakers who work jointly on common interests specific to themselves. Collaborative work, witness, and activity are distinct from corporate ministry of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Though many individual Quakers join together in addressing social concerns, Quakerism is a faith of continuing revelation and PYM is a ‘big tent’ with many opinions.

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