Quaker roles

Quaker roles

Here is our guidance and support for:

• Children & young people's work advocates
• Quaker clerks
• Eldership and oversight
• Quaker employers' and wardens
• Quaker Peace & Social Witness correspondents
• Quaker Life representatives
• Quaker chaplains
• Records custodians and librarians
• Quaker registering officers
• Area meeting safeguarding coordinators
• Treasurers and collectors
• Area meeting trustees

Patterns and examples role-holder gatherings

Patterns and Examples events are online gatherings for anyone with a role or responsibility within a Quaker community. Each one will be an opportunity to meet Friends, make friends, share ideas and worries, develop your skills and build our Quaker communities.

We are holding four 2-hour events in Autumn 2020:

Week 1

• Tuesday 29 September 10am to 12noon
• Thursday, 1 October 2pm to 4pm

Week 2

• Tuesday, 6 October 10am to 12noon
• Thursday, 8 October 7pm to 9pm

Sessions in week 1 will be repeated in week 2 allowing the opportunity to participate in up to four of the six workshops on offer.

For more information contact:

• Simon Best: simon.best@woodbrooke.org.uk
• Oliver Waterhouse: oliverw@quaker.org.uk or 020 7663 1007

Workshop sessions will include:

• Outreach
• Quaker community, pastoral and spiritual care
• Blended MfW(fB), decision-making, discernment. How do we do it now?
• Quaker questions from an intergenerational perspective
• Storytelling as a theological reflection
• Mental health

Book online: www.quaker.org.uk/events/www.woodbrooke.org.uk/patterns-and-examples-2020

Read about patterns and examples events in the blog written following the gathering in Edinburgh in 2018.

Header image © Mike Pinches 2015