Newsletter of the Experiment with Light Network
April 2013
Issue 6
Spreading wider, going deeper
Contents
Editorial
and future issues
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Deepening the Practice:
an Experiment with Light retreat
Helen Meads & Andrea Freeman
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Approaching a time of retreat
Isianne Neve
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An Image of Gathering:
Area Meeting as a community
Phil Dahl & Claire Jones
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Events: Workshops, Retreats, and
Gatherings
(cropped) Easedale Beck:
Photo by Adrian Rose
International Gathering bursaries
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Opportunities for Service
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Editorial
(Lead editor Susie Tombs, with co-editor Helen Meads)
Welcome to issue 6. The deeper and wider one! Themes of issues seem to grow all by
themselves and this one started with hearing from Central England Area Meeting how the
practice of the Experiment had been a key part in inspiring developments that have brought
their Area Meeting closer in community. I’ve heard of this happening elsewhere too. Phil and
Claire’s piece An Image of Gathering clearly shows how getting the wider effect is through
getting deeper, and we’ve heard from some of you a wish to deepen the practice – a need
to give ourselves time to wait more, listen more, change more. The Deepening the Practice,
four days Experiment with Light retreat at Swarthmoor Hall offers this – first, Helen and
Andrea write about the form of the weekend and then we have a glimpse of the experience
through the words and art of one participant, Isianne, who was at the first such retreat in
2009: approaching a time of retreat.
The events we list exist to help the widening and deepening. We hope you will be able to
get to some of these – a gathering, a workshop, or a retreat. If you’d like a gathering
nearer you, do get in touch by email so we can let people in your region know about it.
Do feel free to pass this issue on and print it out, for whoever wants to read it. However,
be aware that the articles, images and artwork do remain the copyright of the authors,
makers and photographers – Adrian, Helen, Andrea, Isianne, Phil and Claire, in this edition.
Therefore please don’t make or send copies other than as part of the newsletter.
Any more Experiment with Light groups out there? We keep finding ones we didn’t know of –
and want to send them the newsletter. Let us know, especially if you’re starting a new one.
In the next issue we will focus more on the International Gathering – don’t forget to register
your interest in attending soon if you wish to join us at that in September. My very warmest
friendly greetings to you all.
Stepping Forward: Future Issues of the Newsletter
Susie Tombs
At the EwL conference at Glenthorne in 2011, Rex Ambler outlined some possible steps
forward for the future of the Experiment with Light. Some of these, such as the newsletter
and the various gatherings, from regional to international, have begun to take place.
One example he gave of a way in which we could experiment with the Experiment was to
“Bring our meditative practice to bear on some current activities of Friends, such as
business meeting, clearness committee and YM working committee. E.g. let us try what
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happens when we bring an issue before Friends, clearly with all the difficulties attached to it
and then go silent for 40 minutes or so to allow the Light to open up the reality of the
situation. We can then share what we have learned from the experience. We have done
enough of this already to know it can make a real difference. What I am suggesting is that
the Experiment with Light does not have to be always a separate practice – it can also be
integrated into other Quaker practices where its benefit can be appreciated.”
I hope that we might hear from Friends who have any experience of using the Experiment in
this way – and if you haven’t, could it be tried? We use the Experiment in this way at
Steering Group meetings regularly, and find it brings clarity, depth and unity. I would be
excited to see a future issue of the newsletter describing what the experience of others has
been in this direction.
Contributions and comments on this, or anything else, to [email protected]
Deepening the Practice: an Experiment with Light retreat
Helen Meads & Andrea Freeman
The Experiment
As we know, in a regular Light group, the
process of the Experiment is:

identifying the day’s concerns and
putting them to one side within the
sharing group

the guided meditation, either read aloud
or using tape or CD (of which there are
a number of versions, but in all of them
six spoken steps are interspersed with
periods of silence ranging from four to
seven minutes);

a period of silence, each person
continuing reflections on the experience
alone, writing thoughts or drawing
images

worship sharing where individuals feed
back to the group, if they wish, their
experiences in the meditation whilst
being upheld by the sharing group;
importantly, there are no comments or attempts to help.
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It is thus both individual and witnessed by Friends, who accompany and silently support
each others' journeys, as early Quakers also did. Some Friends practise the Experiment on
their own (some daily): in those instances, the sharing is only with oneself (or perhaps in a
journal).
Retreats
The Quaker Retreat Group spent time discerning the features of a Quaker retreat, and
indeed what might be said to constitute a retreat, from walks in the country to silent
seclusion, from half a day to more than a week.
Eventually the group identified the key
elements of a Quaker retreat:

an introduction with information, available reading matter,
images, and possibly questions that might be addressed

silence

worship sharing

shared refreshments (hospitality).
Experience has shown that this pattern works well. Worship sharing
includes strict confidentiality, allowing each person to speak arising
out of silence, with no discussion or comments about anyone’s
contribution and absolute confidentiality within the group. Each
person speaks once.
This sharing is a privilege and is awe inspiring.
It adds to the overall spiritual benefits of the retreat.
Experiment with Light retreats
We have offered Experiment with Light as a focus for retreats both
in a four-day residential programme at Swarthmoor in 2009 and on
one-day events as part of the retreat programme at High Flatts
Meeting.
These retreats have deepened Friends' experience and
understanding
immersion.
of
the
process.
The
four-day
retreat
provides
It allows two or more hours' focus upon the words of
the steps in the meditation, rather than the four, five or six minutes
when the Experiment is practised in a Light group.
The longer
reflection upon each prompt enables participants to visualise or
consider the meanings and their responses in depth.
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On the retreats we have also been able to examine responses to the steps of the
meditation using creative activities for a fuller range of expression, where meanings not
immediately obvious to the participant producing them emerge in the work.
For example, a
simple printing technique, which anyone can
use without technical knowledge or skill,
allows
participants
responses
underlying
to
the
truths
to
reflect
steps
on
and
which
their
perceive
were
immediately
not
obvious.
A rough heart shape
with gaps and scars
was initially perceived
literally as the heart
attack
of
a
family
member who had just died, but later the
deeper meaning became clear to the participant in relation to herself.
who can know what the images mean or their significance.
It is only the sharer
The deeper meaning develops
over a period of reflection that the retreat format offers, and afterwards in considering the
work produced.
Another benefit of the longer Experiment with Light retreat is the frequency of the worship
sharing over the four days. Sharing
together
deep
spiritual
experiences
without comment (which is always a
judgment and relates to the person
who
comments
rather
than
to
the
sharer) enables a deepening of the
spiritual
experience overall.
Further,
working together in silence is also a
significant
experience,
where
cooperation over materials and respect
for each other uphold the group.
We hope Friends will join us, and Kayt, on the July event at Swarthmoor (see p 16).
(Personal experiences in the Experiment are published only with their permission, which has been given for this article. - Ed.)
"Over the past eight years I have made regular commitment to times of retreat in a variety
of forms and circumstances, including the Experiment with Light (print-making) retreat at
Swarthmoor Hall in 2009. I continue to find these experiences essential in nourishing my
spiritual discipline, in maturing my awareness of self and others, and in deepening my
relationship with god and in god." Isianne Neve
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approaching a time of retreat ~
Isianne Neve
Your love is unfailing
Your awareness is complete
Your presence is constant
You are the only solid ground which is eternal and unchanging.
You are always there for me, always here with me;
I am often absent - from you, from others and from myself the quality of presence, time, attention I offer continually in flux.
My deepest desire is to be available to you,
To be receptive to the gifts and movements of the Spirit,
To unflinchingly consent to your Light shining into my being,
To welcome the transformation which comes
by drawing near and nearer to you.
~
Because my mind is matted with thoughts
Because our world is a bombardment of noise
Because your voice rises out of silence
I need a time of quiet
to pull me below the busy veneer of sound.
~
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Because my thoughts are preoccupied
with disparate concerns and imaginings
Because our world pours out relentless stimuli
Because you wait
I need a space with a single clear focus
to release me from the grasp of perpetual distraction.
~
Because my heart struggles to hold
myriad feelings, challenges, and contradictions
Because our world feels fragmented, damaging, and unstable
Because you seek relationship
I need a place of containment and safety
to dare to explore the truths you long to reveal.
~
Because my soul’s surrendering to you is a solitary, hidden voyage
Because our world has forgotten our interdependence
Because you are Love
I need a context of community
to reflect, resonate, witness, affirm and illumine.
~
Because my faith can be erratic and worn into weariness
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Because our world values
material security, clear logic, and quantifiable proof
Because you are Mystery
I need an experience to test and strengthen my trust
to inspire me through your Spirit, to manifest your power.
~
Because my words become over-complicated
confused, and inadequate
Because our world likes to define, analyse, and explain
Because you are ineffable
I need a chance to discover images, to embody experience
to encounter you through creativity and Creation.
~
Because my vision is limited and biased and I am afraid to see
Because our world is beautiful as well as suffering
Because your perspective is whole
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I need a way of renewal and restoration.
~
Because I am broken and overwhelmed
Because our world needs healing
Because you are Peace
Receive me
Here and now,
Offering this time
All I am, all I have…
~
For you have granted me glimpses of my Soul
You have shown me who I am
You continue to
surprise me and
sustain me
You open my eyes and my heart
and stir me into joyful return
to the world from which I withdrew
Deeply attuned to your presence
Reoriented to your leading
Strengthened by your love
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An Image of Gathering
Phil Dahl & Claire Jones
The sources of images
The source and role of images, rather than words, emerging or arising from Experiment with
Light meditation can be intriguing. Our experience of allowing images to emerge in response
to a specific concern, especially by means of an Experiment with Light meditation, has led
to developments that we feel are worth sharing more widely. The context includes a small
Local Meeting (Dudley) that we attend; the part played by the Woodbrooke Quaker Study
Centre and developments within our Area Meeting (Central England). Setting a clear
background to those images is relevant as we feel they need to be seen as emerging from
wider issues and on-going associations and may well not simply pop up apparently unaided
and without precedents.
We both live in the Midlands. Phil's been a Quaker since the late 80s and is now fairly
involved in various aspects of the Area Meeting’s life. His involvement in Dudley LM had
included the multiple roles that are typical of a small Meeting. Claire was very new to
Quakers, although she had attended other Local Meetings, but never followed up the
experience. She is very familiar with meditation and with the demands of finding and
following her own spiritual learning. We both share a strong interest in the Buddhist
tradition. Claire knows Woodbrooke very well having attended courses and groups there.
After we met – at Woodbrooke, incidentally – Claire started to attend Dudley Local Meeting
with Phil. It is from there that the focus of this article originates.
Dudley Local Meeting is small and struggling. Having been linked with another LM,
Stourbridge, for a time, it then experienced some growth in the 1990s and became its own
LM.
Struggling for years with an albatross of a building with too many problems – structural
and break-ins – sapped the energy of the small group of members.
Eventually, the decision
was taken first to move into rented accommodation nearer the centre of the town, and
shortly after to sell the property.
Since then, a small but loyal group of Friends keep the
Meeting going. Several new enquirers had come but not stayed; some had even gone
through
to
become
members,
circumstances changed.
but
then
disappeared,
apparently
as
their
personal
That was the position up to the point when this situation
developed.
We both shared a concern for this small Meeting.
was preventing its development.
best path would be.
During 2011-12, we couldn’t see what
For some time, the members had tried to discern what the
The Meeting had considered reducing to meet only every other Sunday
along with other options.
During the middle part of 2012, we joined with Stourbridge in
Quaker Quests and some new enquirers started attending regularly. Early in 2012, Phil was
halfway through the Woodbrooke two-year study programme, Equipping for Ministry (EfM).
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Part of this programme involves finding and carrying out a personal project.
An element of
his EfM was a sense that this was a stimulus to seek new initiatives to see his own Meeting
grow before taking what could turn out to be a pretty drastic decision.
Phil had known about the Experiment for some time, but for one reason or another had
never been able to find or take part in a Light group on a regular basis. Part of the impact
of doing EfM was to regenerate his interest in practice of various kinds, especially in an
interest in the core experience we associate with early Friends. As one of the areas of
regular practice that we shared, the Experiment proved particularly valuable. We listened to
Rex Ambler’s introductory talk several times. For one period of several months, we chose to
do the meditation nearly every day and derived a great deal from it.
As a main focus of Phil's personal EfM learning, he took the chance of breaking out of wellestablished habits of thinking and being. Quite deliberately and pro-actively, Phil decided to
move away from the very verbal-logical approaches that had for years been central to his
work as an educationist. As many on EfM, he wanted to unlock some of the blocked
creative energies that he felt had been lying neglected or virtually dormant for years. Having
had a long-standing interest in Isaac Penington, along with many another Friend, his images
of light and seed, amongst many others, came to be a key focus. An experience of
Appleseed during the April 2011 7-day Residential of the EfM at Woodbrooke also struck a
deep chord in this respect.
As a result, Phil was drawn to return to
something
he’d
started
doing
many
years
previously when he was a teacher in Somerset
and a young father. In his spare time, he’d
actively studied Jung’s
work,
reading quite
widely in both Jung’s own publications, as well
as around the topic with other writers on
Jung.
He’d
also
been
introduced
to
the
Chinese classic, I Ching or Book of Changes,
and had regularly studied and used it now for
four decades. An off-shoot of this was to be
drawn by Jung’s work on archetypes to develop an interest in mandalas. At that time,
particularly during the summer holidays from the pressures of school-teaching, Phil would
experiment with drawing or sometimes just doodling mandalas.
Phil was fascinated by the forms and shapes that arose in them. As part of EfM and a
rediscovery of his own creativity, he started to draw mandalas of every kind: formal and
symmetrical, naturally inspired designs or spontaneously wandering shapes and patterns.
At one point, he came to feel that drawing on Beatrice Saxon Snell‘s anthology of
Penington’s spiritual counsel1 would lead to producing an entire series of mandala images to
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accompany it.
In fact, this was what he imagined would be his project for EfM and he
started to draw, design and develop ideas for it.
Claire’s creative activity was far more
well-established. She had worked for a
time as an Art Therapist and delighted in
helping people tap into their creativity, opening up
their innate ability to explore patterns, colour in
making things. She picked up on the mandala idea
and started to explore its potential in her own way.
Having spent several months doing the Experiment almost daily, we both felt a good deal
more familiar with it and with the process of allowing words, phrases or images to emerge
from the meditation. It was when we shared the concern for Dudley LM in a particular
Experiment that images came to us, individually but separately, which had a quite uncanny
resonance with each other. Claire’s first saw a rather green and sadly blocked, dulled or
stagnant pool. Phil however felt that the
gathering
of
people
at
a
Meeting
for
Worship was like forming a clearing in a
forest. He saw people, a bit like trees as it
were, seeking out a clearing, so they could
sink their roots into a common pool of
experience, a pool that seemed to be more
of Light than anything else. As an outcome
of this and our sharing of our own images,
Phil drew an initial image.
At this stage, it
was really quite experimental, but seemed to
have potential.
During 2011, the Area Meeting we’re part of,
Central
situation
England,
that
a
decided
lot
of
to
tackle
the
AMs
face.
Our
Nominations Committee is not untypical in finding it increasingly difficult to find people
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willing or able to take on roles, either locally or for the AM. This may be due to all kinds
of the changes in our lives, in society, as well as in how people join and take part in group
activities. The AM set up a Root and Branch Review which carried out an investigation,
seeking the views of a sample of people involved in its work in various ways. Their report
came to AM in session in June 2011. It contained several recommendations, amongst which
were some proposals to raise and change Members’ and Attenders’ awareness and
understanding of the AM and the roles available through a booklet, a poster and through
advertising opportunities. It wasn’t just the Meeting for Business, but about the shared
fellowship and community of people across a particular area.
For some reason, Phil found himself volunteering for what he thought would be a fairly
predictable task of producing a poster and maybe a booklet. The booklet, as the minute
from that AM had it, would be to ‘enlighten Friends on the structures and work of the Area
Meeting’. The more he thought through the implications of such a booklet, the more it
struck him that it would present more of a challenge than an opening! “ How could this be
something anyone would really want to read?” Wouldn’t it risk being yet another shelf-bound
dust-gatherer? Claire introduced him to a colourful and intriguing diary, the We’moon diary
(www.wemoon.ws), which literally grabbed his attention. It is a diary or yearbook for women,
drawing written and graphic contributions from a very wide group in the Western world.
“Hm, what about a diary everyone in the Area Meeting can contribute to?”
Phil thought.
This idea appealed to the small Root and Branch Task Group that had been formed to take
the work forward following the publication of the Review. The AM Clerk also liked the idea.
What followed on from that discussion grew into something that eventually involved a good
number of people from right across the Area Meeting. The proposal first came to an Area
Meeting in session in April 2012 and found a significant amount of support, including –
most importantly – the proposal that the AM should ensure that everyone could have a
copy irrespective of the cost. We visited several Local Meetings from Dudley to Warwick and
Hall Green to Cotteridge to engage people in the Response Survey part of the Task Group’s
activity, but also to float the idea of the diary and yearbook. All Members and Attenders
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were invited to submit contributions of a personal nature (poems, extracts, quotes, short
articles) along the lines of the entries in the We’moon diary. All the LM and project
committee clerks were also approached to submit entries about their Local Meetings’
activities or about the work their project was doing to express Quaker Testimonies. We
spread the net as wide as possible, so that interest groups could also contribute. Being an
unfamiliar idea, it took quite a while to sink in that anyone could actually submit a short
piece, a photo, a reflection. Over time however the entries started to come in and
eventually we were able to work with a designer in a local Community Network in Dudley, St
Thomas’ Community Network, to collate all the entries into the diary.
The backing of the finance committee, the clerks to Trustees and Area Meeting, was crucial
in seeing the whole thing through to fruition.
When our AM Clerk, another Claire (Bowman), saw the
watercolour version of the Tree-Pool image, she was
particularly keen – nay, insistent! - to see it on the
front cover of the Members’ and Attenders’ Diary and
Yearbook for 2013.
In the end, a 150-page ‘Members and Attenders Diary
and Yearbook’ was produced and paid for out of
central
regularly
funds,
to
enabling
have
a
everyone
copy.
The
attending
Tree-Pool
a
LM
image
appeared on the front cover (below) as well as a reduced little leitmotif logo on each of
the weekly page to week diary pages.
It included space to foreground the various projects Central England Friends (CEQ) support,
like the West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project, the Christmas Parcels Project, the
Northfield EcoCentre and the Talking Friend and Cape Town Quaker Peace Centre
committee, as well as individual work like the Hope Project and international issues like Ekta
Parishad.
In the front and back sections, the Yearbook pages (left) included
information about who was doing what on the various committees.
This involved another Friend with the IT skills and access to all
the information who did an amazing job in getting a pretty
accurate set of data of everyone who served in almost any role
or on any committee throughout the AM.
The dairy pages offered space for Local Meetings (as below), for
Projects and committees to share their work and raise awareness
of their needs for people to support and serve, as well as to
include donations to fund their activities.
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We are currently inviting feedback from everyone on how they
are using theirs and what they have learned about the AM, so
that we can build on this in preparing the 2014 edition.
A
digital version is available for download as a PDF on the CEQ
website, <www.centralenglandquakers.org.uk>
The Tree-Pool image runs, as we
mentioned, like a leitmotif through all
the twists and turns of that process,
as well as the pages of the first
edition.
Appearing to emerge from a
concern about just one small Local
Meeting, it seems to resonate with
everyone
who
Quaker or not.
sees
it,
whether
Within that image from that source, there seemed
to be something which any article or any sequence of a thousand
words could only barely hint at capturing.
(1) Beatrice Saxon Snell: A Month with Isaac Penington: A devotional Anthology compiled from his letters.
Quaker Home Service, London: 1966 (1987). Currently out of print.
Silence in Circles at Woodbrooke
Phil and Claire are running a course at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre (Birmingham)
between 14-16 May called ‘Silence in Circles’. The course explores sacred circles and
mandalas using art and meditation. It offers a chance to take ‘time out’, delight in quiet and
colour, discover a different way of reflecting on thoughts and experiences and learn from
people with similar interests and experience. Mandalas are everywhere but only you can find
‘yours’ – this course is a chance to do just that. More information is available online at:
http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses.php?action=course&id=8244
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Events:
Introduction to the Practice.
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 May – fully booked
Introduction to the Practice
Glenthorne Quaker Centre,
Easedale Road, Grasmere, Cumbria LA22 9QH, Tel:+44 (0) 15394 35389
Friday 4 – Sunday 6 October
With Margaret Bradshaw, Angela Greenwood, and Allan Holmes
http://www.glenthorne.org
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Experiment with Light workshop for Light group facilitators and nurturers
Claridge House, Dormans Road, Lingfield, Surrey RH7 6QH
Tel: +44 (0)1342 832150
Friday 15 – Sunday 17 November
with Catherine King- Ambler, Rex Ambler, and Susie Tombs
http://www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk
Eastern Region Light Gathering.
Quaker Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove,
Cambridge
CB1 7UB
Saturday 8 June 10.30 a.m.
– 4.30p.m.
A day of refreshment and renewal for those who belong to Light Groups or who practise
the Experiment individually.
Join with practitioners from the Eastern Region to do the individual meditation in the
morning and then to use the practice in a wider context in the afternoon. Time also for us
to share our experiences, support each other and look to the future.
Bring & share lunch.
No charge but donations to Experiment with Light Network welcome.
For further details and to book, contact
Hilary Painter Tel. 01223 243452 [email protected] or
[email protected]
Experiment with Light: deepening the practice for experienced
practitioners
Swarthmoor Hall, Cumbria, LA12 0JQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1229 583 204
Thursday 4
July 2013 - Sunday 7
July
With Andrea Freeman, Helen Meads, and Kayt Turner
http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses.php?action=course&id=8088
Deepening the practice is offered for those who have practised the Experiment for some
time.
Andrea and Helen first ran an Experiment with Light retreat at Swarthmoor in August
2009 and we include in this issue images and scenes from 2009 [on pages 3-5] and Isianne
Neve's writing on her retreat experience.
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On the first evening we shall settle in and then the next two and a half days will be an
extended Experiment, with small group sharing at each stage.
We shall also have silent
epilogue each evening and hold a Meeting for Worship in Swarthmoor's atmospheric Great
Hall.
You don't need to be an artist, nor do you need experience of printing, because materials,
guidance and support will be on hand.
The printing (and any other creative form you may
bring and enjoy in addition) enables us to find out what our whole response to the
experience is. By physically producing images and then seeing them, what then emerges is
further understanding of what we have experienced as new and deeper levels of meaning
become clear.
You can book through Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre: [email protected] or
the weblink above.
Swarthmoor Hall
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Experiment with Light International Gathering
Woodbrooke Friday 27th – Sunday 29th September 2013
The Experiment with Light Network's broad aims are to deepen the spiritual lives of Quaker
communities within Britain Yearly Meeting and beyond, and to strengthen the roots from
which Quaker national and international witness springs. There are active Light Groups and
individual Experimenters now all over the globe. The International Gathering to be held this
September at Woodbrooke is an opportunity to celebrate, share and deepen this experience
by bringing together EwL practitioners from all over the world. To date Experimenters from
Britain, USA, Central and Southern Africa, many countries in Europe (including Norway,
Sweden and Russia) and the Middle East have reserved places. The Gathering is designed for
Friends who have practised the Experiment for some time and are interested in its development
and dissemination within Britain and internationally.
For further information,
see www.experiment-with-light.org.uk
email: [email protected]
or tel: Klaus Huber, 00 44 (0)1225 865393.
Bursaries Appeal
Catherine King-Ambler
Not all Meetings across the globe have access to the
sources of financial support that we in the UK can
benefit from (for example through our Area Meetings
or some of the charitable Quaker Trusts). We have
therefore been fundraising for those Friends from
abroad who have been appointed to attend the
Gathering, but are unable to find the resources for
the whole or part of the costs.
Examples of need vary from Russia, where fares can
be raised, but not the Gathering fee, to those
Meetings which are unable to fund little or any of the
costs. We have to date five applications from Eastern
Ramallah
Europe, Africa and the Middle East, places where
conditions make raising the necessary funds locally very hard.
Copyright Nur al-Cubicle
For those living in conflict areas, one of the most important aspects of Experiment with
Light practice has been in relieving the personal impact of the violence on them and
supporting them in finding a way through to reconciliation and the rebuilding of
communities.
If you are led to contribute to bursary support for these Friends, please contact us
email: [email protected]
or tel: Klaus Huber 00 44 (0)1225 865393.
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Opportunities for Service:
Postal distribution of the newsletter
We would find it helpful to have someone who could handle the postal distribution of the
newsletter. We have about a dozen subscribers who like to receive the newsletter by post.
The job would entail making a good-quality print of the newsletter, making sufficient goodquality photocopies (black and white or colour), and putting them into the envelopes,
addressing and stamping them. The costs of stationery, copying and postage would be fully
reimbursed.
IT consultant
We are very aware of the environmental
disadvantages
meetings
of
and
people
travelling
conferences.
In
to
some
situations, using digital conferencing is
desirable. Is anyone able to advise us
on the best systems to use when more
than two people are involved?
Printing
We would like the newsletter to be available in a full colour hard copy, as well as by email.
Is anyone able to advise us how to go about this when the print run would be quite small?
Please contact Helen Meads or Susie Tombs for any of the above on the gmail account:
[email protected].
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