Summary

Workshop Number: 23
Leaders: Daniela Salazar, Chase Baldwin
Who May Register?: Intergenerational (50% high school and young adults, 50% older)
Worship/Worship-Sharing: 20%
Lecture: 15%
Discussion: 45%
Experiential Activities: 20%

Who May Attend?
only full time attenders (participants should attend the entire workshop every day)

…with Quran Quarter Hour as a brief introduction to the kinds of recitation we will be discussing. Quran Quarter Hour Topics: How does the Quran work? How do Quranic recitations…


Workshop Description

We will explore the traditional of oral recitation and qur’anic lens to the role of prophecy in one’s own journey. We will read a novel and use the story to reflect on our spiritual pathways and leadings.

In this workshop, Friends will explore how recitation and storytelling inform a spirit-led life and personal understanding of one’s own prophetic pathway. We will read a book together as a sacred text and discuss.

Expectations: Friends will commit to reading a book before or during gathering and are open to engaging with non-Western practices and frameworks. Friends will speak according to what is authentic to them and are asked to center the meaning rather than the letter of what is said.

Copies of The Thief by Meghan Whalen Turner will be available for participants to use during the gathering. Digital copies may be sourced upon request.

The session will begin each day with Quran Quarter Hour as a brief introduction to the kinds of recitation we will be discussing.

Quran Quarter Hour Topics:

  • How does the Quran work?
  • How do Quranic recitations work?
  • Contemplate all the translations
  • Practice listening: engage in the substance.
  • Discuss the meaning: discuss the experience

Discussion Themes from The Thief:

  • Telling our own stories (testimónio)
  • ‘Listening in tongues’ (understanding spirit of a message as it is given)
  • Investigating the tradition of storytelling about our origins and the land beneath us.
  • The unmistakable Unseen, a qur’anic exegesis of clarity and the will of the Most High
  • The role of story in meaning making and clarity

Leader Experience

Chase Baldwin has taught classes and workshops in-person and online for several years. In 2021 and 2022, he facilitated several workshops on sharing the Quaker experience and spiritual accompaniment.

Daniela Salazar has taught creative writing and poetry and at Queens College. Daniela now coordinates tradings for internet access and setup through a bilingual bookstore collective in Brooklyn, NY.

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