Notes - Spirit and Structure in Quaker Meetings
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January 7, 2022
To the editors:
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January 7, 2021
To My Friends in AFSC and Other Friends of AFSC,
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There are two documents below:
I’ve just read an open letter in Western Friend online that describes a proposed restructuring of AFSC, which includes funding an additional management layer. [https://westernfriend.org/media/afsc-perilous-crossroads]
Most people know several different ways for drawing a large group of people to a decision. I’ve experienced many: Robert’s Rules, the Lakota talking circle, the old-fashioned town-hall meeting, the top-down company-wide memo, a method I’ll call “spokes and wheels,” as well as Quaker meeting for business. These give us “outward forms” for grappling with messy social processes.
An excellent account of thirty years of (non-)decision-making about homeless persons on a meeting’s property.
A collection of quotations describing Quaker Meeting for Business and offering advice for its satisfactory conduct.
