Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Faith and Practice

Spring Term at Pendle Hill: Q&A

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If you are interested in learning more about the Spring Term, Pendle Hill’s ten-week residential student program, join us for this informal online conversation. 

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As Pendle Hill lives into the final decade of its first century, we celebrate our rich history as an experiment in spiritual learning community. In a moment when the world feels exhausted, fractured, and depleted, Pendle Hill’s Spring Term offers a greenhouse – a protected space for Friends and other seekers to bring leadings, ideas in their infancy or ready to move to the next level, and other seeds of the “already but not yet” – to nurture these visions into being, through the daily rhythm of study, worship, and work, in community.

The Spring Term at Pendle Hill is March 1-May 10, 2023. Learn more about the Spring Term here: https://pendlehill.org/learn/resident-study-program/

 

Beyond Diversity 101

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An on-campus intensive with Niyonu Spann and Lisa Graustein

(Sunday at 4:30pm through Thursday at 1:00pm)

Beyond Diversity 101 intends healing transformation. We provide frameworks, offer practices, and hold a space for growing skills to de-structure systems of oppression and raise up liberation. Participants are offered pathways to move beyond the guilt-blame cycle toward radical truth-telling, co-responsibility, and activating joy & justice!

Participants will:

  • Recognize and remove blocks that hold you back as a facilitator, artist, leader, healer, teacher, or organizer;
  • Articulate and break patterns of domination/power-over/oppression;
  • Practice being a courageous and heart-centered transformer;
  • Increase the ability to discern, speak, and activate a vision of liberation;
  • Recognize how our spiritual lives relate to our social justice work;
  • Develop applications for continuing work at home.

The Battered Earth: Injury, Loss, and Healing

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An Online First Monday Lecture with Beverly Ward

Since participating in a Woodbrooke course, “A Quaker Response to Climate Collapse” in 2021, Beverly Ward has been sitting with this concern: “We consider that Quakers could be poised to become midwives and comforters of the challenging times ahead of us.” Beverly will invite participants to join her in sharing concerns on the urgency of climate collapse, reflecting on the environmental, interspecies, and intraspecies impacts of humans. Her reflection will draw on lived experiences including environmental and climate justice advocacy and research, decolonization, and service.

What in our Quaker practice prepares us for this midwifery? Who are our docents? She will share thoughts, gleanings, and plans for future work on grief and loss, drawing on Eileen Flanagan’s message, “There is no faith community that says ‘Be in despair.’” Finally, Beverly will share how we can support each other through this transition, seeking to repair and heal ourselves, our communities, and the battered earth.

Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way Toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace

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A First Monday lecture online with Valerie Brown, exploring themes from her new book from Broadleaf press.

Daily we are asked to stretch in the direction of goodness, kindness, forgiveness, patience, and vulnerability. Yet life’s fragility, fear, and anxiety, and our own self-sabotage can derail us from growing and thriving, leaving us stuck, fractured, and constantly second-guessing ourselves. How can we gain greater self-awareness and bravery to break these patterns?

Based on Valerie’s latest book, Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace (Broadleaf, 2022), this highly interactive lecture will explore using the Buddhist teachings on the Seven Factors of Awakening and the wisdom of Quaker faith and practice to:

  • Choose bravely when conditions are uncertain and ambiguous;
  • Examine unconscious patterns that hold you back;
  • Reflect on what matters most with soul-amplifying questions;
  • Align your values with your work for a greater sense of purpose and meaning;
  • Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness;
  • Show yourself real kindness through self-compassion.

Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices

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Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022

A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.

The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:

https://pendlehill.org/events/experiment-with-light-a-guided-quaker-meditation-based-on-historical-practices/

Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices

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Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022

A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.

The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:

https://pendlehill.org/events/experiment-with-light-a-guided-quaker-meditation-based-on-historical-practices/

Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices

Written on:

Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022

A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.

The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:

https://pendlehill.org/events/experiment-with-light-a-guided-quaker-meditation-based-on-historical-practices/

Experiment With Light: A Guided Quaker Meditation Based On Historical Practices

Written on:

Apr 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2022

A series of online workshops with Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge
Thursdays 7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.

The “Experiment with Light” is a practice that can help people deepen their spiritual lives by exploring what it means to “wait in the Light” as early Quakers did. This can be a searching and powerful experience.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:

https://pendlehill.org/events/experiment-with-light-a-guided-quaker-meditation-based-on-historical-practices/

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