Community Practice Group
Join Nadine Hoover and Beth Collea in practicing the simple yet powerful essential practices described in Walking in the World as a Friend.
Third Mondays at 7:15 – 9:00pm Eastern Time:
- Sept 16, 2024
- Oct 21, 2024
- Nov 18, 2024
We invite participants to commit to practicing for three months, Sept–Nov, to experiment with listening inwardly to love and conscience working within us, testing discernment, recording, and yielding — and keeping a journal of an experiment with Spirit in our lives.
We encourage participants to find a companion that you can meet with every week or two over Sept – Nov 2024. It would be great if you both attend the sessions, but not necessary. During these sessions, we will pair Friends up randomly for companion time to broaden our experience.
7:00 Visiting or counsel — informal exchange
7:15 Welcome & Worship — listen inwardly for messages & journal messages
7:45 Companions — share messages or testimonies arising
8:15 Discernment — testify and receive feedback and record
8:45 Closing — comments
9:00 Close
Tests of Discernment:
- Sense of the Spirit.
- Persistence in the silence.
- Simplicity, seemingly trivial or impossible, not willful or desired.
- Integrity: honesty, authenticity, and consistency.
- Consistent with texts of other practicing communities / scripture.
- Writing in a journal or log.
- Reflection and feedback from companions.
- Recorded by monthly, quarterly, and yearly meeting communities.
- Published in writing, art, news, courts, or law.
- Experience of the fruits: love, joy, peace, strength, compassion, beauty, truth, equality and liberty.
Resources for these workshops:
Click here for the videos.
Click here to purchase the book, Walking in the World as a Friend.
Click here for a free PDF of Walking in the World as a Friend.
Click here for the article, “Lessons from Thriving Meetings.”
