Worship

What Builds Community in Your Meeting?

Using brainstorm technique summarize and write down all responses to the question on a flip chart.

Secret Spot Exercise

• Divide into groups of 4 to 7 people and array the groups around the room.
• Ask people in each group to hold hands.
• Pause in silence giving each person time to choose their favorite (secret) spot in the room.
• Without talking each group finds its secret spot as a group.
• Debrief exercise.

Modes of Conflict Transformation

Draw the following chart on a flip chart or blackboard.

• Place masking tape in the center of the room to mark of the four quadrants.
• Ask people to place themselves somewhere among the quadrants as they respond to the following questions:
  • How do you, as an individual, respond to conflicts:
    • In your family of origin?
    • In your marriage/central relationship?
    • At work?
    • In your Quaker Meeting?
  • How does your Meeting, as a body, respond to conflict?
  • How do these responses enable or discourage the growth of conflict and its impact on Friends and on the Meeting as a whole?
• Do a quick debrief with the group after each question. Why are you standing there?

Whole Group Reflection to Close

Come back together as a whole group in the spirit of worship, asking people to share insights that may have occurred to them during the last exercise or at anytime during the workshop.