All Maine Gathering

The program for All-Maine Gathering will include opportunities for personal reflection and sharing, leading into small group exploration of Macy and Johnstone’s book and videos for ACTIVE HOPE: How to face the mess we’re in with unexpected resilience and creative power, with resources which Friends can take back to their meetings and communities. Brief queries will focus on gratitude, inspiration, concerns, possible action steps, obstacles, and supports. Small groups for lunchtime conversations may emerge to explore four spiraling steps from “experiencing gratitude” and "honoring specific concerns" (climate, exploitation, immigration, democracy, etc.), through ways that Quaker faith and practice (e.g. SPICES) can inform "seeing concerns through new eyes” and “going forth,” as led and supported.