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 through multiple sessions, forming a small community within the Gathering. Most workshops include worship or worship sharing.
Are you planning to attend part-time? Some workshops require that you be registered for the full Gathering, but others are open to part-time attenders as well.
Workshops at the 2026 Gathering
For the all-ages Gathering held July 7-12, 2026 in Vermont, workshops will be held in-person each morning Wednesday – Saturday.
Each workshop meets from 9:00 to 11:45AM.
Workshop Proposals
The workshop proposal form for the 2026 Gathering will be up in August. If you’d like an email when the proposal form goes live, please let us know at gathering@fgcquaker.org.
Frequently Asked Questions about workshops
In advance of the Gathering : follow the directions for modifying your registration.
After the Gathering has begun: Change your workshop after you arrive at the Online Gathering Info Desk.
Online Gathering workshops have capacity limits that are determined by the workshop leaders. Workshops will be marked as “FULL” on this page when they reach the maximum capacity. This page will be updated weekly. Workshop capacities are also listed on registration when you select a workshop.
Workshop proposals for the 2025 Gathering were due by the end of September, 2024.
Learn how to propose a workshop for a future Gathering.
(Short answer, No.)
All Friends registering during Early Registration (usually early April) have an equal chance of getting into their first choice workshop. This is why even the person who registers on the morning registration opens is not guaranteed to get their first choice workshop, and is why we ask for a second choice as well. Friends registering the last day of early registration are as likely to get into a popular workshop as those registering on the first day. This practice helps relieve the pressure on the computer system caused by many people trying to be “first in line.” It also accommodates Friends who may not have access to a computer or time to register on the day registration opens.
Gathering staff almost always succeed in getting all early registrants into their first or second choice, when those choices are two different workshops. If your first and second choices are identical, you do not increase your chances of getting into that workshop.
After standard registration re-opens, workshops will be first-come first-served, and you will not choose a second choice workshop. What you register for then is the workshop you will be in.
If you want to change your workshop, or check back later to see if you can switch into a workshop that was full, here are instructions for how to change your workshop after you are registered. We do not maintain waitlists for workshops.