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2010 Visiting Friend

Elaine Emily will run three courses at Silver Wattle: Eldering Stories (4 nights), Eldering and Being Eldered (6 nights) and Quakers and Healing (6 nights). She will also be Resident Elder for several course weeks.

Elaine will draw on her experience as a teacher at Pendle Hill and other Quaker centres. While she is in Australia, Elaine is generously offering to give workshops for local and regional meetings. Afterwards, she will give workshops in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Please let us know if your meeting would like to invite her.

6 ways to be inspired this Spring!

The Spring Season is ready to start! Are you going to come?

• Learn the history, spirituality and achievements of extraordinary Quaker men and women. A course designed to kindle your vision and social action
• Whether or not you currently write, build your skill for spirit-led poetry and prose. You will have the care of two professional Quaker writers
• Look closely at the joys and dilemmas of the Clerking role in Quaker meetings. We all can enrich the life of our meeting with this understanding.
• Eldering is an essential way in which Meetings nurture our spiritual life, worship and community. Learn and share about Eldering beyond the basics and reconsider your observations of eldering in your own meeting.
• Explore Quaker perspectives on the Gospels of Mark and John. Discover and wrestle with the scriptural roots of Quaker principles and practices.
• Explore Quaker ways of healing – physical, emotional and spiritual. It will ease your journey towards wholeness.

To book yourself in, print the Registration Form (doc 112kb) fill it out and post it, with your deposit, to: AQC Administrator, PO Box 337, Bungendore, NSW 2621

Is there a Friend you haven’t connected with for a while? Please consider giving the invitation to do a course together, share a room and renew your friendship.

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