| WORKSHOPS
Adults and Young Friends
Session
A workshops are Saturday afternoon 1:30-2:00 PM.
Session B workshops are Saturday
afternoon, 2:45-4:00 PM
Session
C workshops are Sunday morning, 9:45-10:45 AM
Young Friends will
select their workshops Friday night.
Please note that the final schedule is subject
to change
and will be available at Camp Swatara.
1: Spiritual Nurture: A Meeting Experience of
the Whole (Michael Green, School of the Spirit/Chapel
Hill Meeting (NC) and Judy Geiser Reading Meeting) Do
you wish a deeper relationship with God? Are you called
upon by others to simply listen? What’s the connection?
The School of the Spirit Ministry, a ministry under the
care of PYM, supports the vital gift of the elder and
the community who receive that gift. Please join us to
learn more. Session A
2: Expressing Faith and Practice through Folk
Music (Chuck Barbour, Chambersburg Meeting and
Abbey Smyser, Harrisburg Meeting) We will sing and discuss
Folk songs that we feel express our Quaker Faith and Practice.
Using the folk song book, Rise Up Singing, and Faith and
Practice we will explore our favorite folk songs that
express those Ideas and Ideals of our faith. Choose 1
or 2 folk songs from Rise Up Singing, to share with the
group, that expresses some part of your Quaker experience.
We will be singing the songs as a group and discussing
how the song fits into our Quaker Faith and Practice
Session A
3: The sheltering Tree of Life: Deepening Our
Roots, Expanding Our Branches of Being (Judith
Kennedy, Marietta Flowing River Sangha, formerly Harrisburg
Meeting) The Tree of Life or World Tree is a symbol that
is found throughout world religions and literature. George
Fox found shelter in the hollow of trees. William Penn
met with Native Americans under a sheltering tree. The
tree reaches deep into the earth for sustenance and stability
and into the heavens for light. These workshops (3) explore
the symbol as a question and not as an answer and reaches
into the presence of trees, both literal and symbolic,
for shelter, nurture and growth. Young Friends are especially
encouraged to attend the first two sessions as we work
with stories, poetry, meditative movement and worship
sharing around the theme and the symbol of the Tree of
Life.
Sessions A, B
and C- This
is a progressive series, not to be attended as stand-
alone workshops. Young Friends may attend Sessions A
and B only.
4: Outreach: Us and You (Erika Gross,
Michael Rellahan, Downingtown Meeting) Downingtown Friends
Meeting has an active Outreach Committee that seeks to
let the broader community know of our existence and to
support efforts to welcome guests and new attenders. Committee
members will describe our recent efforts- from the creation
of a web site to participation in community events- and
will invite members of other Meetings attending to describe
their outreach efforts. Session
A
5: Socially Responsible Investing: Doing well
By Doing Good (Michael Carbaugh, Reading Meeting)
Does your investment portfolio reflect your Quaker values?
Learn how you can use socially and environmentally responsible
investment strategies to attain your financial goals while
ensuring the your investments have a positive impact on
people and the planet. We will discuss how to screen for
appropriate investments, use shareholder activism as a
toll for change, and the importance and opportunities
presented by community investing.
Sessions A
and B-
Progressive Format sign up for both sessions
6: Blood Brothers (Irene Oleksiw, Downingtown
(Uwchlan) Meeting) Friends are called upon to act upon
their Testamonies. A non-Quaker, Palestinian priest, Dr.
Elias Chacour, is of like mind. His testimony is: “Peace
does not need contemplators but people who are willing
to get their hands dirty and do something.” This
Nobel Peace Prize nominee is feisty, compassionate, humorous,
scholarly, pragmatic and determined. This workshop is
about his Middle East ministry. Session
A
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7: Couple Enrichment:
A Lifelong Journey (Michael and Marsha Green,
FGC Couple Enrichment, Chapel Hill Meeting (NC), Piedmont
Friends Fellowship) How do we cherish and deepen our relationship
with a spouse, a lover, a partner? How do others, including
our meeting, tenderly hold our relationships under their
care? The couple Enrichment Program of FGC is now 40 years
old with trained facilitators across the U.S.. Come join
Mike and Marsha as they share this program, their relationship,
and how you might bring CE to your meeting. CE is open
to all couples in a committed relationship. You
do not have to be partnered to attend this workshop. Session
B
8: Wild Things: Native Plants at Swatara (Maria
Cattell, Lancaster Meeting) Come for a walk on the wild
side. Enjoy the native beauty of our wildflowers. Learn
to identify some wildflowers which are too wild; invasive,
alien plants which damage native ecosystems. Session
B
9: Bullying: Where do You Stand? (Sandy
Grotberg, Chambersburg Meeting) Where do you stand along
the continuum between bullies and their targets? What
can you do? What do you know? This workshop will be an
interactive exploration of experiences and options with
a smattering of results of research findings. This is
intended to present the kinds of situations that youth
encounter, but if enough people are interested we can
explore bullying in the adult workplace too. Session
B
10: Resilience and Overcoming Adversity (Charles
Gilbert, Reading Meeting) This interactive presentation
examines the resilience of children and adults and explores
how they overcome adversity. Drawing from literature on
coping and adversity and numerous well known examples,
we will discuss those factors which seem most likely to
provide good outcomes. These factors include natural support
systems, benefit/meaning finding, and the critical importance
of positive affect. Session
B
11: Putting Faith Into Practice (Janet
Lamborn, Reading Meeting) As Friends we are inspired to
take positive action to help homeless people, protect
the environment, and so much more. However, we have busy
lives; problems keep popping up, causing delays and distractions.
How do we stop procrastinating and fold our good intentions
into our daily lives? This workshop is intended to provide
an opportunity to consider possible measures to help overcome
our roadblocks. Session
C
12: “Amazing Grace”: The Poem and
the Music (James Hiatt, Reading Meeting) We will
look at the life of John Newton, an 18th century English
minister and former slave-ship captain, and his poem,
Amazing Grace (originally six stanzas). Then we will listen
to several American musical setting, including the familiar
one, which is one of the most beloved American hymns of
all time. Session C
13: Where Do Our Income Tax Dollars Go? (Paula
Rucker, Uwchlan (Downingtown)Meeting, How does the Federal
Government spend our tax dollars? Does this fit in with
our Quaker principles? Using excerpts from Faith and Practice,
as well as pamphlets from Pendle Hill, we will explore
this issues. We will try to answer;”How can we,
as Quakers, and as a nation, convince the government to
spend in a way that reflects what we SAY we value.Session
C
14: Spiritual Lessons From the Animals (Lee
Pickett, Reading Meeting) Join other animal lovers to
discuss the spiritual lessons our pets and the wild animals
can teach us. Quotations and short poems will form the
basis of queries to help us explore our own spirituality.
This workshop is open to all ages. Bring your favorite
animal quotations and poems, whether famous or obscure.
Session C
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