The Quaker Way 6-part Course

Beginning in February, Joan Broadfield, member of Chester Friends Meeting, will facilitate six online sessions of The Quaker Way. These sessions will cover how Friends formed their faith and practice, how the changes in the U.S. happened, and the changes that continue.

Participants will share resources, notice and wonder together, and learn how to be connected and involved. Be ready to bring a journal of some sort. Be thinking about where you are in this Quaker Way- what brought you? What brings you back?

• Session 1 on Feb 2:  Welcoming- Beginnings: Seeking, Finding, Declaring
• Session 2 on Feb 9: Experiencing Friends Worship: Direct Revelation
• Session 3 on Feb 16: Organizing Quaker community: Discernment & Nature
• Session 4 on March 2: The Quaker Way: From Britain to the U.S.
• Session 5 on March 9: Continuing Community in Changing Times: 20th Century
• Session 6 on March 16: Myths, Truths, Insights- Exploring Challenges: 21st Century*Sessions take place on Zoom from 4-6pm. You will receive the Zoom link after registering.

  About the facilitator:

Joan Broadfield is a member of Chester Friends Meeting, where she joined along with her partner Ed and their 2 children in 1975. She comes to this work with a background in Quaker studies, work on Quaker publications, and active ministry on antiracism and conflict response.

Nurtured in faith by a Quaker mother, she grew up in an academic family, and was active in the community as a teen at the HBCU campus where her parents taught. As a participant in Quaker Studies Program, she fell in love with the idea of facilitating learning of the Quaker Way [aka Quakerism 101]. Trained as a teacher, she is happy to use her interest and skills in sessions like this. Currently, she is involved in collaboratives on Addressing Racism and Middle East concerns, and is helping as a volunteer to keep the Yearly Meeting library open. In her Meeting and community she is active on environmental concerns and is clerk of Chester Quarterly Meeting.