All Workshops
First Weekend Workshops
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/1 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) This workshop will bring to a wider audience the work of the 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project. The workshop will briefly outline the work of the 339 Project, and will then explore deeply three intertwined themes that are central to the project: How could Quakers…
Workshop Number: 100
Leaders: Avis Wanda McClinton, Dennis Gregg, Judith Bines
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/1 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Participants will hear personal stories crafted by storytellers Katie Green and her daughter Whittier Mikkelsen. Katie’s stories are based on childhood observations and experiences that taught her about racism. She believes that early learning is the hardest to extinguish. Telling our stories, while lovingly and…
Workshop Number: 101
Leaders: Katie Green, Whittier Mikkelsen
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/1 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) We will explore how Quakers put faith into practice. We will look at how our experience in worship leads us to a shared commitment of living our beliefs through our witness in the world. Friends work to create a world not as it is, but…
Workshop Number: 102
Leaders: Rachel Ernst Stahlhut
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/1 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) FGC embarked on a year-long exploration of public ministry from the Fall of 2023-24. Do you feel a call to public ministry? Do you want to take on the role of elder in supporting someone else’s call? Are you curious about what traditions we can…
Workshop Number: 103
Leaders: Windy Cooler
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/1 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) The Water We Swim In is a presentation and discussion, now experienced by more than 300 Friends, that helps Friends explore the social and economic context of why some Quaker meetings are struggling (Why do we have so few children? Why are young adults not…
Workshop Number: 104
Leaders: Barry Crossno
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/1 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Facilitated by leaders from Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT), this workshop will teach Friends how to use spiritually grounded nonviolent direct action as a method of making change. Sometimes described as “people power,” “disruptive action,” or “peace force,” nonviolent direct action exerts pressure on decision…
Workshop Number: 105
Leaders: Lina Blount
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/1 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Loud voices in the public sphere are calling for regressive policies that would increase their power by denying it to others. Some of these demands are grounded in claims of religious authority—especially around gender. More and more, many people of faith are feeling like they…
Workshop Number: 106
Leaders: Rochelle Sjolseth Gisler
Two 4-hour sessions: Saturday 2/1 & Sunday 2/2 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Deep within each of us is a wellspring where we touch the Divine. This workshop will invite participants to open more deeply to that Source of Life and is for those who ache for a deeper experience of connection to the Divine,…
Workshop Number: 200
Leaders: Christopher Sammond
Two 4-hour sessions: Saturday 2/1 & Sunday 2/2 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) The workshop will help you shape your unique approach for work. We fuse personal, professional, and civic aspirations with Quaker values, weaving a purpose-driven narrative and understanding our context and systems. Explore diverse career paths, enhance adaptability, identify key environmental elements, and…
Workshop Number: 201
Leaders: Keira Wilson
Two 4-hour sessions: Saturday 2/1 & Sunday 2/2 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) This workshop will invite participants to explore sexuality and relationships through the lens of Quaker faith and practice. We’ll begin each session with open worship and a grounding exercise. After that, we’ll explore a topic through discussion, information-sharing, and embodied practice. Topics…
Workshop Number: 202
Leaders: Kody Gabriel Hersh
Two 4-hour sessions: Saturday 2/1 & Sunday 2/2 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Sumud is the Arabic word for determination and resilience. Together in this workshop, we will examine the determination of the Palestinian people — in the face of occupation and systemic racial segregation — to exercise their right to national self-determination. Guided by…
Workshop Number: 203
Leaders: Alex
Week-long Workshops
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) “A Century of Queer Quaker Resistance (1924-2024)” is a five-day workshop exploring LGBTQ and Nonbinary Quaker resistance. Participants will gain appreciation for Queer Quaker predecessors, insights into the evolution of their activism over the past century, and an understanding of how recurring…
Workshop Number: 300
Leaders: Jim Fussell & Brian Blackmore
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) Bayard Rustin has been in the public eye a great deal lately, but the stories we hear about him tend to focus on his work during the Civil Rights era, in particular his coordination of the 1963 March on Washington. But what…
Workshop Number: 301
Leaders: Su Penn
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) Indigenous wisdom is to make decisions for the good of the 7th generation. This way of thinking is not common for non indigenous people. To survive climate change and other pressing social ills we must learn a similar long term intragenerational thinking….
Workshop Number: 302
Leaders: Lynn Fitz-Hugh
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) The Spirit can run strong in Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business but may be heard and understood very differently depending on the recipient’s life experiences. A broad and deep pool of interpretations leads to richer clarity and better communal…
Workshop Number: 303
Leaders: Michael Levi and Jade Eaton
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) A 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. Our expectations…
Workshop Number: 304
Leaders: Janice Domanik and Vanessa Julye
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) This is a workshop for couples in a committed relationship who wish to enrich their relationship and explore how it might grow and change in their third age — those last unknown number of years of growing old together when careers and…
Workshop Number: 305
Leaders: Marsha and Mike Green
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) We gather in silence, immersing ourselves in the “Spring Whose Waters Never Fail,” open to the movement of the divine waters of Love and Truth in us and among us, giving ourselves up to God Spirit’s light, life and power.
Workshop Number: 306
Leaders: Jorge Arauz
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) Expectations and objectives 1. to introduce participants to a way of looking at forgiveness that can increase spiritual and emotional healing.2. to develop a list of tools and techniques for engaging in forgiveness work3. to practice/experience as many tools and techniques as…
Workshop Number: 307
Leaders: Sue Regen, facilitator. Kenn and Lu Harper, elders
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) This workshop will focus on all aspects, both theoretical and practical, of Friends decision-making. The focus tends toward being a clerk of a medium sized monthly meeting, the concepts are valuable for participants and for clerks in other Friends contexts. There will…
Workshop Number: 308
Leaders: Steve Mohlke and ,O
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) This workshop will highlight the joy in the lives of BIPOC people as represented in movies other than those films that exploit and stereotype the experience of people of color. Those films present a very narrow understanding of a full life well…
Workshop Number: 309
Leaders: Carolyn Lejuste, Lee Andrew Sayles
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) We will use activities and discussion to explore Quaker life not centered on belief in God. What is spirituality for nontheist Friends? What are our challenges? How can all Friends grow from theological diversity within Quakerism? All seekers will find a safe…
Workshop Number: 310
Leaders: Robin Alpern, tom kunesh
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) We love our testimonies. We talk about them and teach them. We occasionally answer queries about them. But how often do we immerse ourselves in them? This is an opportunity to soak up that rich heritage of faithfulness and absorb all the…
Workshop Number: 311
Leaders: Nathan Kleban and Pamela Haines
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) In this workshop participants will have the opportunity to delve deep into immigration issues in the US, and how the American Friends Service Committee works to support immigrant justice. They will learn AFSC’s pillars for just and humane immigration policy, and how…
Workshop Number: 312
Leaders: Amy Gottlieb, Migration Director, US, AFSC
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) Religious language is an attempt to talk about what we cannot talk about. When talking about the divine, we are obliged to use inadequate images and metaphors, which risk a certain kind of falsehood. And yet, to say nothing risks a different…
Workshop Number: 313
Leaders: Tom Gates
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) Tapping the Inner Spring through Lectio DivinaLectio divina is a way to deepen our understanding of the Divine, take our faith from the mind to the body, and ground daily life in Spirit. It is meant to be a bridge between the…
Workshop Number: 314
Leaders: Barbara Birch
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) “The Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends was issued in May 2022 encouraging Friends to discern their individual and corporate responses to the serious threats facing United States democracy. The Urgent Call named how the high-level lies, conspiracy theories, violence,…
Workshop Number: 315
Leaders: Michael Wajda
Five 2-hour sessions: Monday 2/3 – Friday 2/7 (3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific) With playback theatre, we tell each other our stories. We enact them, encouraging different perspectives to become visible, and different voices heard. Peace and social concerns, transitional justice, celebratory gatherings…learn from experienced facilitators how playback supports them. Come sing and dance, laugh,…
Workshop Number: 316
Leaders: Beverly G Ward and John Heimburg
Second Weekend Workshops
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/8 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Drawing on his work as a doctoral student in Quaker Studies, Smith leads the group into re-examining peacebuilding the way military strategists look at waging war. Tactics, strategies, asymmetrical conflicts – even subterfuge and intelligence operations – with violence off the table, these concepts become…
Workshop Number: 400
Leaders: Stuart E.W. Smith, MFA
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/8 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Quaker meetings are ideally places where power is shared broadly. However, we come conditioned by power relationships in society, carrying complicated relationships with authority. When we don’t understand how power works – or how it could be working – we can fall into unhealthy habits….
Workshop Number: 401
Leaders: Susan Loucks
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/8 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) “Historical Genealogy is a wonderful journey that connects us to our past, helping us understand the roots of our family and the stories that have shaped our lives. For Quakers, this journey can be particularly meaningful as it not only honors individual histories but also…
Workshop Number: 402
Leaders: Alvin Corbett
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/8 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) “Why did 19th century Friends support the federal government’s policy of forced assimilation of Native children, by operating “”Indian boarding schools?” “How did they view Native people and the country’s “”Indian problem?”” What were they seeking to accomplish in the Quaker schools? Knowing what we…
Workshop Number: 403
Leaders: Paula Palmer, Gail Melix, Andrew Grant
One 4-hour session: Saturday 2/8 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) “Participants begin with silent worship. The leaders then describe the pattern of activities. Each person introduces themselves briefly and describes what is significant to their spirit at the moment. We then mute and spend roughly half an hour writing. We then take turns sharing our…
Workshop Number: 404
Leaders: SY Bowland and Laurie Childers
Two 4-hour sessions: Saturday 2/8 & Sunday 2/9 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Our goal in any couples enrichment event is to create a safe space for couples that encourages them to improve their communication skills and to share their relationship with the group during the process of a witnessed dialogue. The witnessed dialogue is…
Workshop Number: 500
Leaders: Kathy and Jeff Richman
Two 4-hour sessions: Saturday 2/8 & Sunday 2/9 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) Who are you today? What do you feel called to do? This session offers practices for self-discovery and future direction. Together we will practice in a safe space silent reflection, time to privately write intuitions received in silence, opportunity to share our…
Workshop Number: 501
Leaders: Daniel Clarke Flynn
Two 4-hour sessions: Saturday 2/8 & Sunday 2/9 (1-5pm Eastern / 10am-2pm Pacific) How are my relationships and my use of time, energy, and “things” in right balance to contribute to right order in our world, and to free me to do God’s work? What is essential? How much is enough? Through personal reflection, discussion,…
Workshop Number: 502
Leaders: Megan Fair
