Workshops

Workshops offer Gathering attenders the opportunity to be immersed in a topic with other interested Quakers. Attenders stay in the same workshop throughout the week, helping form a mini-community within the Gathering.

Each workshop meets from 9:00-11:45 AM each weekday. Most workshops include worship or worship-sharing each day.

Part-time workshops: Workshops 5, 8, 9, 14, 19, 22, 24, 33, 35, 42 and 52 welcome part-time participation. Friends may join after the Monday session, subject to space limitations.

Long Descriptions are now available: Read long descriptions by selecting a workshop on this index page (or the leader index page) OR if you are browsing short descriptions, click the "view details" link.

Workshop Status (FULL, HS/AYF ONLY, etc.): Staff will update workshop capacity on a regular basis. When this information is updated, we will post a message on the Friends General Conference Facebook Page.

Alphabetical

Looking for a workshop offered by a particular leader? Check out this list of workshops sorted by leader last name.

Open to All

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1	Approaches to Prayer
2	Becoming a Storyteller
3	Bringing Nonviolence into Everyday Life
4	Call to Discipleship
5	Chant: A Channel to Deepen Our Worship
6	Conversations About Clerking
7	Crisis, Vision and Community
8	Daily Extended Meeting for Worship
9	Dancing the Aramaic Lord's Prayer
10	Ecology as Spiritual Practice
11	Elias Hicks, A Traditional Kind of Quaker
12	Exploring the Myth of Racial Justice
13	The Foundations of Liberal Quakerism
14	Friends Testimonies in Everyday Life
15	Holding In the Light, Framing the Sacred (FULL)
16	Jesus: Revolutionary or Mystic? (FULL)
17	Listening for Muses
18	Living the Spiritual Life (FULL)
19	Meeting for Bicycling
20	Playing In the Light
21	Promoting Conversations About Racism
22	Prophets from Prison
23	Quaker Quest and Meeting Outreach
24	Singing Our Souls (FULL)
25	Speaking My Truth, Hearing Yours (FULL)
26	CANCELLED: Spirit and Imagination in the Classroom
27	Spiritual Dimensions of Gender Variance
28	Tai Chi, Lao Tsu & Quaker Worship (FULL)
29	Teasing Apart Quakerism's White Cocoon
30	Universalism, Christianity and Quakerism
31	Walking In the Light (FULL)
32	Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" (FULL)
33	Wool Gathering
34	Written Ministry from Rising Generations
35	You Want Me to Do What, God?

Women Only


36	Travel in the Ministry – Birds in Flight

Intergenerational

Read all short descriptions of "Intergenerational" workshops. To maintain a workshop's intergenerational nature, we may occasionally close registration to certain age groups.


37	Book as Verb: Creating Your Soul's Kitchen (FULL)
38	Nontheist Friends
39	Quaker Workcamp Experience
40	Quakers and Social Class (HS/AYF Only)
41	Yoga – Union with the Absolute (FULL)

High School and Young Adults


42	Keeping Physically and Spiritually Fit (FULL)

High School Only


43	Ministry with Children
44	Organizing the Hope – Leadership for Peace
45	Youth Oppression, Youth Power (FULL)

Adults Only

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46	Abandon All Weariness (FULL)
47	CANCELLED: Blessing, a Way of Life
48	Milk for Babes... Nayler's Last Ministry
49	CANCELLED: Parenting Guided by Quaker Faith and Practices
50	Quaker Approaches to Conflict Transformation
51	CANCELLED: Quaker Views of Sex After Fifty
52	Revitalizing & Rethinking Our First Day Schools
53	Right Relationship: Economy, People and Earth (FULL)
54	CANCELLED: Telling Our Stories
55	Weaving Community and Welcoming the Soul (FULL)

Couples Only


56	Couple Enrichment (FULL)
57	Tending Spirit in Your Relationship