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Section of the Americas
October 23, 2013
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Conflict transformation workshop at next year's consultations
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Interest in the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage is running high this year. It's the first time in South America. There is a growing awareness that QYP is an incredible opportunity for young people to explore their own spiritual journey and claim their Quaker faith and heritage. Our job this year is to navigate this new route through the Andes - in multiple languages and multiple Quaker traditions. We want to ensure that young people from Central America can also participate in this historic pilgrimage.  We invite you to make a donation here. Or consider how your local meeting, church or yearly meeting can assist a Pilgrim.

We also invite all former Pilgrims and Leaders to contribute a photo from your Pilgrimage on our Facebook page - and tell us what has stuck with you since then.

 

In friendship, 

                                RM6WC
Robin Mohr
Robin Mohr
Executive Secretary

 

 
Learning to sustain and grow our meetings: Conflict Transformation workshop to be offered at US consultations

Friends' meetings and churches are not immune to conflict within their meeting community, between their meetings and among individuals. Next spring's Section Consultations have been designed to offer concrete skills that Friends anywhere can use. We have invited the Committee on Conflict Transformation of New York Yearly Meeting to facilitate a full day workshop at the 2014 Section Consultations in Sacramento, CA and High Point, NC.  

 

The Committee on Conflict Transformation's work within their yearly meeting involves taking situations of disabling conflict and helping to facilitate the transformation of those situations into opportunities for spiritual growth. Friends World Committee is excited to be able to bring experienced facilitators to a workshop that will benefit a wide audience of Friends. Some of the aspects that will be touched on in this workshop: 

  • Conflict resolution best practices within our communities

  • Understanding the perpetrators and victims of conflicts 

  • How to defuse something before it ruptures a meeting  

  • Conflict as a necessary step for transformation.    

Regardless of which consultation you attend next year, opportunities will abound for Friends to (1) affirm our mutual Quaker identity, and to (2) commit to practices that foster a thriving Religious Society of Friends

 

Read more about the work of this committee within New York Yearly Meeting

 

Learn when and where the consultations are taking place and plan to sign up soon.

Early sign up for Section Consultations recommended 
Registration for the 2014 consultations in El Salvador, California, Bolivia and North Carolina is almost ready to go live.  Check our website for recently updated information on the logistics, workshops and speakers. You can now find information on
  • Exact locations of the conferences 
  • Which workshops are taking place in each location
  • Some of the speakers who will lead us.
Because spaces are limited, we recommend you consider registering early in order to assure your workshop selection.  

Questions? Contact us.