Name: Anne Anderson

Meeting: Framingham (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I grew up in a family where Biblical literacy wasemphasized, but I abandoned the Bible along with my Presbyterian beliefs as ayoung adult. Through telling Bible stories to my young daughter, then to ourFirst Day School, then to Junior Yearly Meeting, I began to reclaim thisheritage and to be able to share it with others in new ways. My stories areoften humorous, and almost always bring out points of contemporary relevance,although occasionally I tell a story Òas isÓ just because it is a great story.

Workshop Offerings:

Bible Storytelling (all ages) or, ways Quakers, especiallyÒBibliophobes,Ó can approach the Bible. Stories include a) JesusÕ death and hispresence at the Òfirst Quaker meetingÓ of the women outside his tomb, b)ÓSauland the Boogie Man,Ó Saul on the road to Damascus, c) Elijah and the FalseProphets, d) Jesus and the temptations in the desert, e) Moses & Miriam,the Burning Bush, and the Plagues, f) PaulÕs 4th letter to the New Englanders,g) Adam and Eve despoil the Garden of Eden, h) Jesus as a boy at the temple, i)Mary and Martha, j) Joseph and his brothers

 

Name: Ann Armstrong

Meeting: Acton (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Listening to Friends across our spiritual/theologicaldiversity

Workshop Offerings:

I am prepared to lead others in sharing about their journeyto and in Quakerism

 

Name: Edward Baker

Meeting: Westerly (RI) MM

Workshop Offerings:

The roots of our race relations: Slavery in New England

 

Name: Hugh Barbour

Meeting: Cambridge (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I taught Bible, Church History, Quakerism, and Asianreligions for 38 years at Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion.

Workshop Offerings:

1) Friends and the Hebrew Prophets, 2) History and Testimoniesof Friends, 3) The apostle Paul and the Spirit, 4) Experiences of the Spirit,5) The Sermon on the Mount

 

Name: Sirkka Barbour

Meeting: Cambridge (MA) MM

Workshop Offerings:

Darkness Illumined: Journeys throughLoss, Pain and Suffering

 

Name: Melody Brazo

Meeting: Fresh Pond (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I believe that I have a message to share with other people(especially white people) about race and privilege. I have been encouraged andsupported in my work by a number of people in my meeting and in also by

several friends in NEYM.

Workshop Offerings:

White Privilege

 

Name: John Breasted

Meeting: South Berkshire (MA) MM

Workshop Offerings:

Available for Visitation

 

Name: Marciana Caplis

Meeting: Northampton (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Presence and prayer, discernment

Workshop Offerings:

Available for Visitation

 

Name: Betsy Cazden

Meeting: Concord (NH) MM

Workshop Offerings:

1) Quaker history (especially 20th Century), 2) Structureand business process, including clerking, membership, 3) Friends WorldCommittee for Consultation (FWCC)ÑFriends around the world, multiculturalQuakerism

 

Name:  ChristianEducation Committee

Meeting: Yearly Meeting Committee

Workshop Offerings:

1) Introduction to Christian Education and its resources, 2)How to plan a First Day School Lesson

 

Name: Elizabeth Claggett-Borne

Meeting: Cambridge (MA) MM

Workshop Offerings:

1) Telling stories of the Christian & Jewish scriptures(Bible), 2) Telling stories of New England Quaker women traveling ministers,

3) Cuban Friends and stories of faithfulness. How do CubanQuakers witness to the Spirit of God? The workshop is about 90 minutes long andincludes songs, slides and discussion about Cuban Friends. Usually I end withan exercise such as, How would your monthly meeting prepare to welcome a CubanQuaker family who were re-locating to your town?

 

Name: Sharon Ellsworth

Meeting: New Haven (CT) MM

Workshop Offerings:

Available for Visitation

 

Name: Charlotte Fardelmann

Meeting: Dover (NH) MM

Gifts & Skills:

It is an honor and a privilege for me to lead a retreat orsession at a monthly meeting. I love getting to know people at meetings otherthan my own. Intervisitation has been one of my interests for a long time. Ihave learned a great deal from this experience and have gained new friendships.Thank you, committee members, for making these opportunities possible.

Workshop Offerings:

1) ÒJournal Keeping:Ó I am an avid journal keeper. I findkeeping a journal is an excellent way to keep in touch with one's innerjourney. I use the journal for recording Òholy instantsÓ in my life, so I won'tforget them. I pray in my journal, and write down what I hear in response. Inthis workshop we will practice a number of forms of journal keeping, includingputting color in our journals.
2) ÒDiscerning and Following Divine Leadings.Ó My book, Nudged by the Spirit:Stories of People Responding to the Still Small Voice of God, published in 2001is about 14 people who follow their leadings. I believe it is very importantfor Quakers to recognize their own leadings and to support the leadings ofother Friends. In this workshop we will identify leadings we have had in thepast as well as how we have supported other people's leadings. We will openourselves to nudges we may be feeling at this present time and consider how wemight respond. 3) ÒLearn to Facilitate a Stillness Retreat for your Meeting:ÓI've been going to a number of meetings this year to help them get started ondoing Stillness Retreats.

 

Name: Richard Frechette

Meeting: Smithfield (RI) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I have been led to share a vision of restorative justice, amodel of criminal justice which is focused on crime as a violation ofpeopleÑnot rules, and justice as a repairing of the harm and restoring of rightrelationships. My concern about our justice process and the vision of arestorative form of justice has developed both from my activities as a Friendand from my professional work in correctional administration. I believe thatthere is a very important role to play on the parrot of faith communities, andwelcome the opportunity to discuss this with Friends communities

Workshop Offerings:

Restorative Justice. I am prepared to offer any variety ofpresentations, ranging from one-hour discussion groups, to full day seminar withvideotapes, overheads and handoutsÉand anything in between.

 

Name: Susan Furry

Meeting: Smithfield (RI) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I can bring messages in programmed worship, lead forums anddiscussions, and make other presentations.

Workshop Offerings:

New Understanding of the Christian Gospel. My leading is tooffer to disillusioned Friends some new ways to hear and understand theChristian gospel, in an open, non-prescriptive way, based on my own spiritualjourney from Òmain lineÓ Christianity through atheism, study of other religioustraditions agnosticism to my current universalist Christian faith. I can dothis through a variety of topics, including Bible study.

 

Name: Beth Gorton

Meeting: Quaker CityÐUnity (NH) MM

Workshop Offerings:

Available for Visitation

 

Name: Ralph Greene

Meeting: Narramissic (ME) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Telling the good news of stewardship and reconciliation inworship, through retreats, workshops, and Bible study.

Sharing the joys of open programmed worship among thevarious Quaker worshipping traditions. Sharing the stories and witness ofradical Quaker leaders e.g. Woolman, Joshua Evans, John Bellars, etc. in theChristian tradition.

Workshop Offerings:

1) I have prepared workshops at NEYM Sessions concerned withthe call to mission in the local community. 2) Stewardship and Reconciliation.A scripture study framed in the context of John Woolman's ÒPlea for the Poor.Ó

 

Name: Bruce Hawkins

Meeting: Northampton (MA) MM

Workshop Offerings:

1) How do we feel about continually paying for war? 2) Isliberal Quakerism the dead-end that some think? Why or why not?

 

Name: Michael Hechmer

Meeting: Burlington (VT) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I am interested in sharing the knowledge of pastoral care,which I have learned from my graduate degree studies, my work as a hospitalchaplain, and from engaging the pastoral issues in my life and the life offriends. These included: proactive pastoral care, medical directives and end oflife care planning; caring at a time of loss and grief, the ministry ofpresence and listening, and pastoral care for men (in either mixed or men onlygroups). I am willing to travel to meetings to offer support.

Workshop Offerings:

Caring at a Time of Loss and Grief. I am willing to offerevening, day or weekend retreats on any of the above topics. I have a preparedworkshop that consists of a dozen brief charts that are designed to stimulatediscussion. The charts address a variety of issues: the ministry of presence,obstacles to being present, the art of listening, praying with people who aresuffering, asking for support, the impact of loss, time and grief, andemotional styles and development

 

Name: Paul Hood

Meeting: Burlington (VT) MM

Workshop Offerings:

Available for Visitation

 

Name: Kate Kerman

Meeting: Monadnock (NH) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Healing work; Quaker process (clerking and recording);Mediation, Living with, communicating with, teenagers; Following leadings

Workshop Offerings:

1) Therapeutic Touch (modern interpretation of laying on ofhands), 2) Basic mediation and communication skills, 3) Communicating well withteenagers, 4) ÒQuakerism 101Ó

 

Name: Suzy Klein-Berndt

Meeting: Northampton (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Building bridges: 1) sharing about my experience with CubanFriends, through Puente de Amigos, 2) being a loving presence as anunprogrammed Friend who enjoys visiting and hosting both programmed andunprogrammed Friends, 3) sharing about my experience as an unprogrammedJewish/Christian Friend

Workshop Offerings:

Available for Visitation

 

Name: Allan Kohrman

Meeting: Wellesley (MA) MM

Workshop Offerings:

1) John Woolman. 2) Thomas Kelly

 

Name: Elisabeth Leonard

Meeting: Beacon Hill (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Globalization is currently the predominant focus of my workwith the WomenÕs International League for Peace and Freedom and United for aFair Economy. Facilitating workshops and putting into action the gainedinsights and information are particular enthusiasms. My work is Spirit-based,interactive and participatory; working with people is one of my favoritepastimesÑespecially with Quakers

Workshop Offerings:

1) GlobalizationÑWhat is it and why should Friends care?Almost everyone has heard of this relatively new economic phenomenon; noteveryone knows how it affects us positively and negatively. What are thechallenges for Friends as we seek to enhance itsÕ benefits and counteract thelatter. Together we shall seek understanding and answers to these and otherquestions and formulate action plans.

2) Women and the Global Economy. Using case studies fromdifferent countries, we will examine the varied roles women play in the globaleconomy and consider their experiences in light of the rights that they areentitled to as members of families, communities, nations and the internationalcommunity.

Each workshop needs two hours or more.

 

Name: Martha Mangelsdorf

Meeting: Cambridge (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

George FoxÕs Epistles

Workshop Offerings:

Letters from our Friend George: An introduction to FoxÕsEpistles.

I would like to introduce Friends to FoxÕs letters from aspiritual and practical perspective, rather than a scholarly one. I hope toencourage Friends to see the Epistles as a resource we can use today and as away to better understand Fox and the roots of Quakerism.

 

Name: Christopher McCandless

Meeting: Burlington (VT) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Skills/interests: Ðall manner of construction/repair; esp.carpentry & cabinetmaking

ÐWorking with high school students and young adults

ÐWorking with youth with disabilities

Gifts: Ðvocal and pastoral ministry supporting the meetingcommunity

ÐClerking (Young Friends of North America, Burlington MM,many committees & groups)

ÐPeacemaking/conflict resolution/listening & prayer

Workshop Offerings:

1) Membership, 2) The TestimoniesÑHistory & Relevance forToday, 3) Eldership in the Religious Society of Friends (these 3 co-led withJean McCandless), 4) Quaker History, 5) The Roots of Authority, 6)Decision-making in the Light

 

Name: Jean McCandless

Meeting: Burlington (VT) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Skills/interests: aging, families with children/adults withdisabilities, child welfare, conflict resolution, organizing

Gifts: child and adult religious education programming,curriculum development and teaching (Testimonies, Quaker History, Worship)

Workshop Offerings:

1) Membership, 2) The TestimoniesÑHistory & Relevancefor Today, 3) Eldership in the Religious Society of Friends (these 3 co-ledwith Christopher McCandless), 4) Teaching Quaker Testimonies to Children, 5)Young Adult Friends Workshop on Problem-Solving.

 

Name: Linda Miller

Meeting: New Haven (CT) MM

Gifts & Skills:

The gift of clearness committees, mindfulness meditation,art as a pathway to the SpiritÑjournal writing, painting/drawing, photography,dance, music

Workshop Offerings:

Available for Visitation

 

Name: Marnie Miller-Gutsell

Meeting: Smithfield (RI) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Prayer, spirituality in community, Quaker Identity, FriendsWorld Committee for Consultation, Quaker History

Workshop Offerings:

1) Lectio Divina. Uses guided meditation to explore severaltypes of traditional prayer. Instructions and additional exercises that can beused individually or in a prayer group. Flexible formatÑfour weekly sessions ofapproximately 2 hours each; weekend workshop or retreat; one-day workshop, oras a 1 1/2 to 2 hour ÒsamplerÓ session. Can be used in ecumenical settings oras community outreach. For longer formats, participants are asked to commit toattending all sessions, because of the importance of building the trust andunderstanding for the sharing which follows the meditations.

2) Spirituality in Community. Group discussions and smallgroup activities focus on the need to keep Quaker spirituality rooted inhealthy worshipping communities: why we need community; what damages community;what communities can do to support and nurture spiritual growth. Effort is madeto tailor the workshop to the particular Meeting, which requests it, and todraw out particular issues a Meeting may wish to follow up on. Flexible format:short
(1Ð 1 1/2 hour) presentation/discussion, daylong workshop, overnight or weekendretreat.

3) Will the Real Quakers Please Stand Up! Workshop usesgroup discussion and exercises to explore issues of Quaker identity. What makesus different from other faith traditions? What are our sources of spiritualauthority? Given the enormous differences between people who call themselvesFriends, do we have any common spiritual ground? Format: one day workshop

4) Chasing Dead Quakers (A), (B),and (C)

(A)   Early New England Quaker History. With sufficient notice, presentation can include some of the history of 17th, 18th, or 19th century Friends in your part of New England.

(B)    Friends in the Blackstone Valley of MAand RI, 1690-1890.

(C)    The NEYM ArchivesÑor ÒWhy are we payingsomebody to hang around one day a week in the stacks of the RI HistoricalSociety Library?Ó All topics offered in one-hour presentation/discussionformat.

 

Name: Heather Moir

Meeting: North Sandwich (NH) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I have been a life-long Friend in three different yearlymeetings, and clerk of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC),after serving as clerk of the FWCC Section of the Americas.

Workshop Offerings:

Small meetingsÑthe joys and frustrations

 

Name: Skip Schiel

Meeting: Cambridge (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I offer presentations and forums using my photos and storiesabout various public witnesses IÕve been part of.

Workshop Offerings:

I am available to exhibit photos and give slide shows aboutwalking through the southern United States or about my experiences in SouthAfrica on the Middle Passage Pilgrimage, which retraced the Atlantic slavetrade. In addition, I invite the participants into a conversation to discussissues of inspired by my presentations

 

Name: Nancy Shippen

Meeting: Fresh Pond (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I am involved with the Alternatives to Violence Project, aspiritual practices group, library support, and Concord Prison Outreachsteering committee. I would like to share my experiences, raise peopleÕsconsciousness of prisonersÕ potential, and encourage involvement.

Workshop Offerings:

Being in community with our neighbors in prison. As part ofthis workshop I will present: a) the evolution of my commitment and leadings;b) programs I have been involved with, including some exercises and a video; c)other programs that are up and running; and d) I will make available materialsfor further exploration

 

Name: Ruah Swennerfelt

Meeting: Burlington (VT) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I have led workshops at Pendle Hill, Powell House, FGCGathering, and various yearly and monthly meetings. I believe that my giftsinclude clarity, good facilitation, and good listening. I have a strongspiritually based commitment to working for peace, justice, and a healthyplanet.

Workshop Offerings:

1) The Testimony of Integrity, 2) Caring for Creation as aSpiritual Concern, 3) Spiritual Renewal through Connection with Nature

 

Name: William Taber

Meeting: Fresh Pond (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Underlying my work on early Friends and their beliefs is aconcern for the revitalization and renewal of the Religious Society of Friends.I think that it is important for us to know what we believe and to becomecomfortable talking about it. I hope my presentations are a means to that end.I find early Friends saying things that are a challenge to us today, and I tryto present some of those challenges.

Workshop Offerings:

1) BarclayÕs Apology, 2) Quakers and the Bible: Recoveringour Prophetic Voice

 

Name: Ben Tousley

Meeting: Beacon Hill (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

Folksinger, storyteller, group facilitator and spiritualcounselor. Director of Life Story Music and Healing Groups and adjunctprofessor at Springfield College School of Human Services.

Workshop Offerings:

1) Workshops and Retreats around the themes of ÒHealingSongs and Stories,Ó ÒLife Stories,Ó and ÒGrief and Loss.Ó Use of guidedmeditation, music and story-sharing to build community. 2) Concerts for adults,intergenerational and childrenÕs audiences. Lively, participational folk musicevents that build community.

 

Name: Michael True

Meeting: Worcester-Pleasant St. (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

A professor emeritus from Assumption College, Michael Trueis a long-time peace educator and has written extensively on the tradition ofnonviolence. His latest book, Frontiers of Nonviolence was published in 1998.

Workshop Offerings:

1) The Peace Testimony and the UN Decade of Peace andNon-Violence, 2001-2010, 2) The American Tradition of Nonviolence, 3) The Storyof Global Nonviolence since 1980, 4) Peace Within and Without

 

Name: Jonathan Vogel-Borne

Meeting: Cambridge (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

My ministry is to seek a deeper unity among Friends so as tomore faithfully fulfill our unique Christian witness to the reality of GodÕsunconditional love for all creation.

Workshop Offerings:

1) The historical roots of the several branches in theQuaker family tree, 2) To the angel of your meeting . . . Nurturing healthymeetings, 3) Jesus, the first Quaker

 

Name: Theodora Waring

Meeting: Wellesley (MA) MM

Workshop Offerings:

1) Bible Study, 2) Forms of Quaker Ministry

 

Name: Cathy Whitmire

Meeting: Portland (ME) MM

Gifts & Skills:

I have been leading overnight and daylong silent retreats.

My book, Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity will beout in the summer of 2001 and I will be offering workshops on the spiritualdimensions of plain living.

I do individual and group spiritual direction and aminterested in helping meetings start spiritual direction groups.

Workshop Offerings:

1) Discernment, 2) Following Leadings, 3) Prayer

 

Name: Penny Yunuba

Meeting: Beacon Hill (MA) MM

Gifts & Skills:

ÒEnoughnessÓ ÑfinancialÑ recognized. User-friendly Meetinglibraries

Workshop Offerings:

Personal Financial Integrity in Light of our Quaker Values.What disciplines are you using to help you live in alignment with your Quakervalues? Do you exercise a Òpersonal financial awarenessÓ which allows you topractice your discipline every time you take out your wallet?