3 Hour Workshops

Spiritual Practice

Zoom Only

We will explore spiritual practices with the hope you will set an intention to incorporate one or start a fresh one in your daily life. Bring a journal, 2 index cards (or paper the size of one), pen or pencil, and crayons or colored pencils or markers to play with and explore and practice several possible Spiritual Practices to start with or to liven up what you are already doing. Our hope is that you leave with an idea of what practice sits well with your Inner Light right now.

Spiritual Gifts

Zoom Only

Using inventories of gifts emailed to you prior to the workshop, during the workshop you will first explore the gifts you may possess from those lists individually. No homework required other than having the lists, a journal and a pen or pencil with you. There will be time to explore the lists during the workshop.

Then we will explore in community what gifts others see in you. The workshop will conclude with an acknowledgement of your gifts and a hope that your many gifts will be collectively used in service to your beloved community.

 

Extended Workshops

Holy Listening

Full day in person

This workshop will offer guidelines to spiritual listening and opportunities to practice and discern with each other.  As Douglas Steere describes it, “Holy listening—to ‘listen’ another’s soul into life, into a condition of disclosure and discovery, may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another.”            

Aging Together In the Spirit

1-2 days in person

Our workshop is based on a three-part online series from Pendle Hill led by members of Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s End of Life Working Group and authors of A Tender Time: Quaker Voices on the End of Life, Patti Nesbitt, Eileen Stanizone, and Kristin Camitta Zimet.

We will employ brief lectures and small and large group discussion formats to explore the following:

How do cultural, familial, and personal assumptions about aging affect you? Together we will look at new ways you could frame your experience of age, recognizing both losses and grace.

What models of dying – uncomfortable and/or beautiful – have you encountered? Together we will look at how you might choose to frame a good death.

A relationship does not end when someone dies. Together we will discover ways to affirm connection and make meaning after a death.

Opening Space and Hearts in Your Faith Community for Sharing Your Grief and Finding Meaning

1 day in person

Grieving any loss, whether personal or communal, is undeniably challenging and can often disrupt established spiritual practices. This disruption may result in feelings of disconnection from your spiritual community or a sense of abandonment by God. However, sharing your grief with your community can foster spiritual growth as you collectively grapple with existential questions, gain a deeper understanding of yourselves, experience compassionate healing, and build resilience.

To support this journey, the Spiritual Formation Collaborative is offering a one-day workshop dedicated to grieving both personal and communal losses. George Salloom, a member of the Collaborative, will lead the workshop along with other members. George is a retired healthcare social worker, a hospice volunteer, and a member of the Old Haverford Friends Meeting, with over 25 years of experience as a bereavement group facilitator. Maximum attendance: 25 participants

 

Offered to both Meetings and Quarters at no charge. Please give us a 3 month lead time.

If you are interested or have questions, contact Susan Thompson at 267-847-6396 or srthom1031@gmail.com