Workshops
Workshops offer Gathering adults and high school participants the opportunity to be immersed in a topic with other interested Friends. Friends stay in the same workshop throughout the week, forming a small community within the Gathering. Each workshop meets from 9:00 to 11:45AM, Monday-Friday during Gathering. Most workshops include daily worship or worship sharing.
Frequently Asked Questions about workshops
- If I register early, will I be guaranteed my first workshop choice? (Short answer: No)
- Which workshops include half-Gathering and part time participants? (a link to list of workshops available to half-Gathering and part time attenders will be posted in winter 2020)
- How do I submit a workshop proposal for 2020? (the deadline was September 30, 2019)
Click on the workshop title to learn more about it. Use the filter tools to display workshop by audience type (age group), or by keyword. Workshop leaders will be adding more details to their workshop pages over the winter - you can sign up for the Gathering email list to be notified when the expanded descriptions are available. Workshops marked with * indicate anti-racism experience levels - learn more about anti-racism workshop levels.
NOTE : Workshops are listed ten per page. Please scroll to the bottom and click on a page number or "next" to view more workshops, or to view all the workshops at once, select "all" under "Items per page" in the filter box.
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A rising China will help define the 21st century. Yet despite Quaker commitments to peace, there are linguistic, cultural, and political barriers that prevent Friends from engaging with China. This workshop seeks to overcome these barriers using Quakers' long history in the country as a roadmap for future engagement.
For those wanting to become more whole-heartedly receptive and responsive to divine guidance. In this workshop we'll explore practices to support each other in faithfulness and help each other discern next steps in following our calls and leadings, as way opens. We'll pray for each other and go forth encouraged.
Friends will build a plan to bring advocacy opportunities into their Meetings or schools. After developing advocacy toolboxes, Friends can create and build momentum for Quaker advocacy in their communities. Participant experiences and leadings will help shape the workshop, alongside Christine and Lauren’s education and advocacy experiences.
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) BASIC workshop offers experiential exercises followed by reflection to examine our responses to situations where injustice, prejudice, conflict, frustration and anger can lead to aggressive behavior and violence. The core aspects of Fox’s, Gandhi’s and Martin Luther King's nonviolent approaches are practiced.
Quakers have traditionally used communal spiritual discernment to test our personal leadings. This was a check on just doing anything we wanted. Too often today, the hard work of discernment is neglected in favor of being supportive. This workshop will explore discernment and offer participants opportunities to practice it.
We will seek God and a sense of each other as we explore the hills of Western Virginia on our bicycles. We will ride at least 10 miles a day.
Listening and connecting, engaging in conflict and repair, listening for and speaking truth, facing grief, and cultivating hope and courage – these are the “muscles” we need to build to be effective peace, justice and climate activists. We’ll develop and practice a non-violent workout routine to exercise these muscles. Highly interactive.
Sharing initiatives by Baltimore Yearly Meeting Friends, with an anti-racist faith community as our eventual destination, we’ll use presentations, readings, discussions, and deep worship to explore various ideas and strategies as means to investigate our work towards racial equality. We affirm diversity as a means to truth.
An advanced workshop for Friends actively engaged in racial justice work. We will share successful approaches to addressing White Supremacy and colonialism that will enhance our techniques for challenging racial and ethnic divisions. Participants must write a statement about their work and facilitate an exercise with the group.
This workshop will focus on all aspects, both theoretical and practical, of being a presiding clerk of a Frines meeting or committee. There will be handouts and opportunties for experience sharing. All work will be done in a whole setting. There will be a suggested $10 materials charge.
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