Summary
Workshop Number: 103
Leaders: Windy Cooler
Who May Register?: Open to All
Worship/Worship-Sharing: 20%
Lecture: 20%
Discussion: 30%
Experiential Activities: 30%
Who May Attend?
part-time attenders welcome (can come any session)
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 Description
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 draw on as a community to create a flexible, responsive, and wise future for Friends?
Windy is the current convener of an emerging cross-branch project to incubate valuable public ministry through structured support and capacity development with local meetings, those called into ministry, and their elders. She is the author of FGC’s four-part series on public ministry, which can be found here: https://www.fgcquaker.org/category/news/public-ministry/
Leader Experience
Windy Cooler is a public minister under the care of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting (Baltimore Yearly). For over a decade her ministry has been in pursuit of right relationship among Friends. Her essays, lectures and workshops on trauma, interpersonal violence, and crisis have been sponsored by Quaker institutions across theological and cultural differences. She also serves one-on-one as a discernment facilitator and trauma educator with communities in crisis.