2020 Colorado Regional Fall Gathering – Intermountain Yearly Meeting

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Hope for Healing the World –
Our Experiences During the Pandemic

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SCHEDULE

Friday, November 6, 2020
6:30 – 7:30 pm	Welcome Getting-to-know-you activities (Andrew Banks)
8:00 pm – 9:15 pm	*Movie: Sweet Home Monteverde, followed by a Q & A with the director* [See details here]
Saturday, November 7, 2020
8:30 – 9:30 am	Worship sharing groups
9:30 – 10:00 am	Break
10:00 am -noon	Hope for Healing the World: Our Experiences in the Whirlwind of Pandemics Panel, followed by break-out groups
Noon– 1:30 pm	Lunch break
1:30-3:30 pm	Breakout groups: 1. Write What’s Now, Write What’s Next. Healing through Writing our Pandemic Journeys – Martha Larson 2. Lift Up our Bodies, Minds and Spirits in this Unprecedented Time (Wellness through Music & Meditation) – Carolyn Kuban 3. Sweet Home Monteverde – Screening Two
3:30-4:30 pm	Social time on Zoom (drop-in)
	Dinner break
6:30-7:45 pm	Creativity Night (for all ages!) with Kevin Slick
8:00-9:00 pm	Sing-along- Eric Wright
Sunday, November 8, 2020
8:30 – 9:30 am	Worship sharing groups
9:30–9:45 am	Break
9:45-10:15 am	Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business [Documents in advance]
10:15-10:30 am	Break
10:30 – 11:30 am	Closing Meeting for Worship

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

‘Getting to Know You’ Time Together (Friday night)

Andrew Banks will lead us in several fun-for-all-ages virtual activities to help break the ice as we gather from many States along with Colorado. This will be a wonderful opportunity for participants to get to know each other informally as Colorado Regional 2020 Virtual Fall Gathering begins. You may find yourself moving around during this hour long session, so find some space in your home to ‘boogie’ (you can also tune-in as a non-participant viewer).

About Andrew: Andrew has been active in Quaker fellowship leadership roles for many years including co-clerk of FGC in 2013, national facilitator for the Quaker Quest program of FGC , Nurturing Committee for Youth member and member of Central Committee both of FGC. He has been MC for many Colorado Regional Meeting fellowship events. A member of Mountain View Friends Meeting, he is currently on the Religious Education Committee at Boulder Friends Meeting where he and is wife and two children, ages 3 and 6, are attenders.

SATURDAY MORNING PANEL:

Hope for Healing the World: Our Experiences in the Whirlwind of Pandemics

A panel of Friends from Meetings in Colorado featuring Carol Clinkenbeard, Joan Piasecki and Judy Huston, and moderated by David Poundstone, will have a rich exchange about how we avoid despair and see ways to respond to the “convergence of pandemics” we have all been experiencing. After the panel discussion, we will break into small groups for discussion.

About the panel:

David Poundstone, moderator.
David helped lead Mountain View Friends Meeting’s sanctuary involvement beginning in 2014. He is clerk of Mountain View’s Immigrant Advocacy and Support Committee.

Carol Clinkenbeard is a Quaker, software developer, mosaic artist, mother, grandmother, and newlywed. She trusts that Spirit knows what They are doing in leading her to racial equity work.

Joan Piasecki has been engaged in the life of Mountain View Friends Meeting since 1988. She recently retired from a child psychology practice specializing in anxiety. Joan is mom to two young adults and loves hiking and biking with husband, Chuck.

Judy Huston is a member of Boulder Friends Meeting, and has been called to work on issues of climate change and racial justice.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS:

Write What’s Now, Write What’s Next. Healing through Writing our Pandemic Journeys

Martha Larson will lead a virtual session full of ideas about how to unpack our experiences during this unprecedented time through journaling and writing. We will use exercises borrowed from a variety of books including The Artist’s Way. We will explore how writing can help us now, as well as how it can help us envision – and create – our futures. There will be time to share our experiences with the exercises; as well as our thoughts on what we want from writing, what we experience writing , and how we see ourselves as writers. No experience with writing, or sense of oneself as a writer necessary. Experienced writers are of course also welcome!

About Martha: Martha has been writing poetry and journaling since she was a young girl. She has no formal training in writing, but loves to learn from books and the (very) occasional workshop. Martha believes in the power of writing as means to question, explore, and understand ourselves, others around us, and our world. Martha took a “Healing through Writing” workshop a year ago in June, which is the inspiration and springboard for this session.

Lift Up our Bodies, Minds and Spirits in this Unprecedented Time

Carolyn Kuban will lead a music and movement experience in your home. Everyone will be muted except to process our experiences together. Carolyn’s approaches may include guided relaxation supported by recorded music, imagery-guided movement to recorded music (think of moving like rustling leaves in autumn), and group songwriting within simple structures to express the inner spirit. Everything will be geared to all levels, including those with no experience.

This session will run 1.5 –2 hours.

About Carolyn: Carolyn Kuban has been a school music teacher, a certified music therapist, and a healing harp therapist for children and adults at all levels and diagnoses. Locally, regionally and nationally she has given presentations on music therapy, music for wellness and healing, and music in the schools. Carolyn was featured on ‘Colorado Matters’ on Colorado Public Radio speaking about the uses of music and healing. You can find the interview in the archives at: CPR.org. Currently she is on the faculty of the Center for Musical Arts in Lafayette, CO where she is a music therapist and harp teacher. One of her favorite activities is dancing and making music with her two young grandchildren.

Sweet Home Monteverde documentary screening

Sweet Home Monteverde will be streamed through Vimeo’s platform on Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 3pm. The filmmakers will participate in a viewers’ discussion after each screening.

The full story of the Fairhope, Alabama to Monteverde migration — its success in locating a new place to farm, economic and educational developments along the way, the birth and progress of the concern for conserving the cloud forest, and the faces of today’s Monteverde — is told in a beautiful new documentary film, Sweet Home Monteverde.

Ancient and fascinating footage of early logistical challenges are mixed with fresh, outrageously breathtaking glimpses of nature. Reminiscences by first-generation settlers, now in their nineties, and eloquent retellings from schoolchildren, are woven together. Along the way we also hear from off-site scholars and visitors and the former president of the country.

Hope for Healing the World – Our Experiences During the Pandemic

Hope for Healing the World –
Our Experiences During the Pandemic