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ReWilding Quakers is a three-part series of experiential, living practice to stir our hope, joy, and communal care. This practice is to reinvigorate us beyond "extraordinary respectability" into embodied memories of being courageous in our present. DIY supplies are encouraged for a range of prompts. Each session is stand-alone, while the whole series is sequential and arises from encounters among the Religious Society of Friends. The series is scheduled in tandem with World Quaker Day. Joiners are welcome to one or more sessions.
"Everyday Valiance" is the launch to reclaim a wild lineage as Friends in faith community and informed by real-time encounters. We will imagine a river as it becomes an ocean, inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s poem “Fear.” This session is to reclaim the living truth that we are a wild multitude. In doing so, we must reframe “origin stories” as false when they separate and make us singular. Supplies for this session are minimally paper and writing tools; recommended items: blank and lined paper, newsprint, pencil with eraser, and bold dark pen or marker.
Workshop leader Mey Hasbrook (she/her/hers) resides on Wabanaki lands in Lewiston, Maine, and is active with Three Rivers Monthly Meeting. Her past creative projects spanned Michigan, Peru, and the British Isles. She also traveled in ministry among world Friends. These days, Mey is steeped in repair work as a daily choice and a collaborative journey that carries divine promise. She draws-up experiences as a survivor of violence nearing seventeen years of sobriety and identity recovery as a person of mixed lineage. In this series, Mey offers a “frame” of generative life-giving practices informed by seasoned community work and diverse contexts including Quakers of the U.S. Northeast.