Transferable Skills

Transferable Skills

by | 4 Jun, 2023

Transferable Skills Juan Roberson, New South Wales Regional Meeting I put this compilation together for the non-Quaker Chairman of the company I worked for some years ago. In addition to my role as CFO, as Company Secretary I also had the job of writing the Minutes of...
Let’s consider new terminology

Let’s consider new terminology

by | 6 Sep, 2020

Let’s consider new terminology Michael Searle, Canberra Regional Meeting “Meeting for Worship for Business” may be an oxymoron In the past decade or so, this Quaker expression has become our common language. I submit that it is misleading. I suggest that a Meeting for...

Quaker Processes

by | 3 Dec, 2017

Duncan Frewin, Queensland Regional Meeting. “A new Commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, then you must love one another.” (John 13:34). I hear a lot of talk about Quaker process and right ordering. Perhaps you have heard it too: “Friends this...

“Shall we begin with a few moments of silence?”

by | 5 Jun, 2016

Duncan Frewin, Queensland Regional Meeting Yearly Meeting is coming up, and with it a week of business meetings that we commonly open with “Shall we begin with a few moments of silence?” And of course there are all the local or regional business meetings, the...

The Wahroonga Experiment.

by | 16 Nov, 2012

John Michaelis, New South Wales Regional Meeting.   Enriching Quaker life Quakers everywhere aspire to deepen and enrich their lives. A group at Wahroonga local meeting, called the Living Experimentally Circle, has for some years been exploring ways to achieve...