CANCELLED : Salt and Light: Friends Living the Kingdom

Workshop number: 
24
Geeta Jyothi
McGahey
Audience
Who may register: 
Open to All (adult & high school)
full-time attenders only
Time breakdown
Worship/worship-sharing: 
30%
Lecture: 
10%
Discussion: 
40%
Experiential Activities: 
20%
Description
Leader Experience: 

I co-lead in ’99 an experiential workshop with Bob Barnes on “What Woolman would think today”, ’00 and ‘01 workshops on Bhagavad Gita, in ’02 a workshop on Thomas Kelly and the Gita, in ’04, one on anger, two years a High School Yoga workshop, and ’07-10 adult and intergenerational yoga/spiritual experiential workshop. These were well received and I through the feedback my leadership skills have grown and I am more able to communicate the content of the workshops in the program and make realistic plans. I also have done workshops for my meeting, New Garden and Nashville on simplicity and on many topics for my yearly meeting. I did two 2hr workshops at SAYMA in 2011 on the Salt and Light theme, will be doing one in 2012 prior to gathering and will a probably giving a plenary.
I also hope to travel to monthly meetings before and after returning on this theme.

Short Description: 

Gleaning from the 2012 FWCC Conference of Friends in Kenya, an opportunity for all branches of Friends to unite our spiritual foundation of faith with an understanding of the basis of our work in the world in all its diversity, we will use home groups, interest threads, and activities to clarify and reveal our Truth.

Long Description: 

Expectations and Topics:
1. Experiencing the Light in our Live - illuminating both our inner Truth and its outside expression
2. Finding how we "salt" our world
3. Feeling joy
4. Learning to Center on the Light within as we see a "problem" outside
5. Identifying "our concern" so we can act with purpose
6. Finding out what ties together our "concerns" and interweaving them
7. Learning to communicate across our differences

Format in flux – to be reevaluated after the conference
First day - introduction, expectations, creating home groups, seeing the conference video using open source to discern areas of interest, singing or movement activity

Days 2-4
15-20'- Home group
20-30' - Worship or worship sharing
5- Break
10-30’ Song, movement, &/or activity
10-20’ – presentation
10-20’ brainstorm
20-30’ Interest thread
5-10” coming together

Day 5 –
20-40’Check-in together
30-60’ presentations on Concerns
10-20’ Song, movement, activity
30’ Worship
30-60’ – What we have gained and pledges

Readings - will be gleaned from conference study materials and added when they are posted

Bring
Pictures bringing alive 2-3 areas of concern
Journal
Candle
Small container of salt
Stone/s from where you live and/or a special place