Facilitating and Feeding Back as an Elder
9 - 16 July 2025, Online
This facilitation and feedback skills course is open to all, but recommended particularly for those with eldership responsibilities in Quaker communities. You will learn and re-learn how to be with one another while living out our Faith and Practice.
One of the responsibilities of Quaker Eldership is to care about the quality of their Quaker community that is felt in the relationships based on our commitment to our Testimony and to each other. To know how to facilitate group dynamics and give feedback even, or especially, when conflicts seem to be emerging requires active learning, practice and support. While we will draw on the wisdom of Early Quakers as well as contemporary knowledge to focus on these, there will also be times dedicated to practising for experiential learning over this two-part course.
We invite you to come ready to learn and try new skills. You will feel better equipped and supported not only as a Quaker elder but as a Friend.
The tutor is a Quaker Prison Chaplain and runs courses with the prisoners. One of which is "Understanding Self and Others" where the prisoners learn to enter into dialogue with rather than talking at people - to listen and to enquire of the other – in seeking a way of being self, with others and in the world.
The live sessions take place on Zoom on Wednesdays 9 and 16 July at 19:00-21:00 (UK time).
More information
For more information contact:
Woodbrooke
Telephone: 0121 7282360