Young Adult Friends Spring 2025 Retreat: “Creativity and Spirituality”
April 11 @ 6:00 pm - April 13 @ 12:00 pm
Young Adult F/friends and Seekers, ages 18 through 35, register today for the Spring 2025 Retreat at Woodbury Friends Meeting! The theme for this retreat is “Creativity and Spirituality.”
The Spring Retreat will be from Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April 13, at Woodbury Friends Meeting. Young Adult Friends will participate in a workshops on cultivating their individual creative practices, and how creativity energy is connected to the expression of spirituality. YAFs will also connect with each other through fellowship and worship sharing.
This is an overnight event. We will be staying at Woodbury Friends Meeting on Friday and Saturday night, so don’t forget to pack your sleeping bags, pillows, clothes, necessary bathroom items, medications, and anything else you might need. If you are not able to stay overnight, we invite you to join us instead on Saturday! It is also okay if you are only able to come on Friday or Sunday. Please let us know in the registration that you will be staying for only part of the retreat.
Register today!
Registration closes on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. The cost to participate is $40.
The funds each Friend pays goes toward the costs of food, activities, and the honoraria for the faciliators. If this cost is at all prohibitive, please reach out to the Inclusion and Belonging Coordinator Inaara Neal-Shiraz at inealshiraz@pym.org.
This will be a mask optional event. We will prepare all our meals together. We will be sleeping on the floor of the Meeting House. Please email inealshiraz@pym.org if you have any accommodation needs.
Community Expectations
Young Adult Friends (YAF) is open to 18-35-year-olds interested in or already part of a Quaker community/Meeting. YAFs come from a wide range of backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We are respectful and welcoming to all, attuned to how power and privilege may consciously or unconsciously impact our care for one another.
The voices of those new to YAF and those already familiar with YAF are equally valued. Alcohol and illicit substances are NOT permitted during overnight YAF retreats.
We expect that all participants will accept collective responsibility for the community’s well being and living space during this retreat. By “living space,” we mean both the physical building and the fellowship we create within it. We are guests here.
Responsibilities with the logistics, cleaning, and taking care of public spaces is shared among all F/friends. Each F/friend is expected to contribute to help with the tasks that come up throughout the retreat.
We recognize that people have a wide range of boundaries. We prioritize consent and respect boundaries. In caring for the community, it is important to get enthusiastic consent when engaging in physical contact or conversations. We know that someone is giving enthusiastic consent when they agree to the interaction both verbally and with their body language.
We are prepared for problems that may come up at this event, such as conflict, injury, and spiritual or mental distress. The YAF Program, as part of PYM, has procedures in place for how to handle problems and conflicts that may arise. As a last resort, these procedures may include asking individuals to leave the event. If you have any questions about how to handle a particular situation, please speak with the YAF clerking team.
