Pendle Hill -is a Quaker retreat, study, and conference center in Wallingford PA now accepting applications for the Sping Term of their 10 week residential study program – learn more HERE.
Information about other UPCOMING PENDLE HILL EDUCATION PROGRAMS is listed below:
Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way Toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace
Dec 5, 2022, 7:30-9pm EST
An online First Monday lecture with Valerie Brown exploring themes from her new book from Broadleaf Press. Read more and register here.
New Year’s: Open Heart, Peaceful Mind
Dec 28, 2022 – Jan 1, 2023
An on-campus retreat for rest and reflection with Valerie Brown
At these times of high stress and high anxiety, we need now, more than ever, to exhale deeply and feel fully nourished through resilience-building, heart-opening, and peace-making practices. We can’t do this alone. We need a caring and supportive community and space and time to be nurtured and supported.
This retreat includes periods of silence, reflection, group discussion, creative arts, walks in nature, deep relaxation, and mindful movement. Savor guided meditation and extended periods of silence to deepen discernment about how to live your best self, and return home with tools to create greater peace and hope in your life. Read more and register here.
New Year’s: Music of Vision and Inspiration
Dec 28, 2022 – Jan 1, 2023
An on-campus retreat with Maestro Karl Middleman
Amidst these times of strife, where can we gain inspiration? Where is peace and tranquility to be found? “Music of Vision and Inspiration” offers compelling reasons to be resilient and hopeful. According to reformer and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, “Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated into hearing.” This program delivers on Child’s prophecy by exploring composers’ engagement with serious social issues such as war and plague to find edification and upliftment. Read more and register here.
Speaking with Spirit
Jan 1-31, 2023
An Online Poetry Immersive with Jesse White
Tuesdays, January 3, 10, 17, 24, 6:30-8:00pm ET via Zoom. Final Session: Tuesday, January 31, 6:30-8:30pm ET via Zoom. Cap of 30 participants.
As we move through themes connected to our relationships with Divinity in our writing practice, we will journal and explore various forms of poetry. This course will accommodate everyone, from those with little experience to experts at reading, understanding, and crafting poems. We will meet Divinity and each other with the same loving spirit. Read more and register here.
Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (January)
Jan 18, 2023, 6:30-8pm EST
A consideration of Vanessa Julye’s Radical Transformation: Long Overdue for the Religious Society of Friends (PHP #476), hosted by Janaki Spickard Keeler. Read more and register here.
Beyond Diversity 101
Jan 22-26, 2023
An on-campus intensive with Niyonu Spann and Lisa Graustein
Sunday at 6:00 pm through Thursday at 1:00 pm
Beyond Diversity 101 intends healing transformation. This intensive provides frameworks, offers practices, and holds a space for growing skills to de-structure systems of oppression and raise up liberation. Participants are offered pathways to move beyond the guilt-blame cycle toward radical truth-telling, co-responsibility, and activating joy and justice! Read more and register here.
Exploring a Quaker Commitment to Reparative Justice
Jan 28-29, 2023
An online weekend collaboration with Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre.
Explore the spiritual imperative and deep need for Quakers to commit to repairing harms done by Quakers and others through their involvement in slavery and its afterlives. This workshop will examine the patterns of behavior in Quaker meetings that may emerge around anti-racism initiatives and what stops us from taking collective action, and will share an actionable framework for understanding reparations both individually and collectively. Read more and register here.