Category: Quaker Business Method
Posts exploring the Quaker Business Method. Advice and explanations on what / how it is used in Quaker Business Meetings, and how you can use those ideas to improve the way all meetings.
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Quaker A-Z: X is for X-ray
X-rays look through to the supporting structures An X-ray gives transparency and vision that cuts through and sees what is important in an organisation. The end of the year is always a good time to take stock – to review what you’ve successfully completed, where things didn’t develop or complete as expected, or perhaps what
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Fail or Grow?
Which questions are asked? This blog is the next in my four-part series of outtakes from the Future of British Quakerism Conference. Friday’s review of first the dwindling numbers from the Tabular Statement and then an increase of average age by a year from last year’s survey both added to the general feeling of worry
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All the colours
Letting the Light shine through Together with colours, it is always wonderful to get to see Friends and catch up. But also to join new conversations and discussions in corridors, and over meals. Last weekend I attended the Future of British Quakerism Conference in Yarnfield. We were joined by a very young Friend who ministered joyfully
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Following the leadings of the Spirit
Spirit as a hang glider! Last weekend at the Future of British Quakerism Conference, we joined together to explore ways to support our communities and our spiritual lives in the face of change. Over 250 people in both Yarnfield and online joined together in worship to receive information, work together to discern threads and make
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Quaker A-Z: T is for Together
Being Surprised I love Yearly Meeting and go whenever it is possible. I find that it is part of the foundation of my grounding and rootedness in British Quakerism. It helps me to reconnect to the community as a much wider group. I see and am together with my regular Meetings for Worship (online and
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Slices of Power
Swarthmore Lecture 2024 I was inspired and challenged by Ben Jarman’s lecture at Yearly Meeting a couple of months ago. You can watch all of it on YouTube – linked below. The idea I was most challenged by was the idea of ‘slices of power’, which Ben introduced about an hour into the lecture where
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Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zooming
Zooming – hybrid clerking This subject was suggested by several people – but the title is thanks to Rachel Muers. I’ve clerked hybrid meetings for many years – a professional Zoom account makes meeting far-flung clients and committee members easier. I ran one of the first Woodbrooke online courses. Over a long weekend, when I
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Quaker A-Z: W is for Worship
Foundation not garnish… Quakers hold and make decisions at their Business Meetings – more formally called ‘Meetings for Worship for Business’, sometimes called ‘Meetings for Worship with a concern for Business’. But whatever you call it is the foundation not a garnish or decoration like the flowers on the clerks’ table above. Every business meeting begins
