Living Witness Project Quakers working for sustainability
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LWP on the Road If you would like to hold a day or weekend event for Friends in your meeting or area, please contact us. These are some of the programmes on offer. We can also create an event to suit your needs. Climate Change: Our Quaker Response How can we make sense of the competing messages about climate change in the media? What are our thoughts and feelings in response? And what action can we take as individuals and in our Quaker meetings? We combine authoritative information on the science and politics of climate change with a workshop format to enable participants to find their own contribution. Walk Cheerfully – Step Lightly We start from the values and visions of participants and from Quaker Testimonies and practice, to explore how we can contribute to a more sustainable world. This means celebrating our diversity, recognising our gifts, and acknowledging the need to change the way we live, take direct action, and speak truth to power. We learn how sustainability can be fun, connecting quality of life, strong communities, and reverence for the world around us, grounded in and inspired by the spirit. Quakers and Permaculture Permaculture started in Australia in the 1970s as a way of creating balanced, sustainable and productive agricultural systems. Since then it has developed into a world movement concerned with the regeneration of land, communities and people. There is much in permaculture’s vision, values and practices that resonates with those of Friends. This course offers an opportunity to explore what permaculture has to say to us, and what Quaker experience and practice has to add to the permaculture movement. Letting Lives and Meetings Speak The course explores ethical dilemmas and complexities involved in everyday choices. What source of energy should we use for our heating? Where should we buy our furniture? Is it more important to buy local, fair trade or organic? How can our consumption choices form part of our Testimonies to Peace, Equality, Justice and the Earth? We draw on decision-making and discernment practices used by Quakers and others, and experiment with their application to practical choices that we face in our own lives and meetings. Meetings for Eating We learn about the environmental, social and peace implications of our food choices, and explore ways in which food and eating form part of spirituality in our own lives and in a variety of religious traditions. We consider the implications of treating food as a sacrament. The course includes experiences of meetings for worship for eating, and using meals as opportunities for community building. If appropriate kitchen facilities are available, it could include a Kitchen Ritual – cooking creatively together followed by worship-sharing over a meal. Foundations for Sustainability: Three Spiritualities Sustainability depends on finding ways in which individuals, communities and the natural world can flourish. The course explores differences and similarities in our spiritual paths – whether our practice starts by going within, by connection with our communities, or by connection with the natural world. We experiment with a variety of forms of individual, collective and green spiritual practices, and reflect on our experiences together to consider how our spirituality connects our social, peace and environmental witness. The Living Witness Project is Registered Charity No. 1119938. Postal Address: Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW.

Living Witness Project
Quakers working for sustainability

LWP on the Road

If you would like to hold a day or weekend event for Friends in your meeting or area, please contact us. These are some of the programmes on offer. We can also create an event to suit your needs.

Climate Change: Our Quaker Response

How can we make sense of the competing messages about climate change in the media? What are our thoughts and feelings in response? And what action can we take as individuals and in our Quaker meetings? We combine authoritative information on the science and politics of climate change with a workshop format to enable participants to find their own contribution.

Walk Cheerfully – Step Lightly

We start from the values and visions of participants and from Quaker Testimonies and practice, to explore how we can contribute to a more sustainable world. This means celebrating our diversity, recognising our gifts, and acknowledging the need to change the way we live, take direct action, and speak truth to power. We learn how sustainability can be fun, connecting quality of life, strong communities, and reverence for the world around us, grounded in and inspired by the spirit.

Quakers and Permaculture

Permaculture started in Australia in the 1970s as a way of creating balanced, sustainable and productive agricultural systems. Since then it has developed into a world movement concerned with the regeneration of land, communities and people. There is much in permaculture’s vision, values and practices that resonates with those of Friends. This course offers an opportunity to explore what permaculture has to say to us, and what Quaker experience and practice has to add to the permaculture movement.

Letting Lives and Meetings Speak

The course explores ethical dilemmas and complexities involved in everyday choices. What source of energy should we use for our heating? Where should we buy our furniture? Is it more important to buy local, fair trade or organic? How can our consumption choices form part of our Testimonies to Peace, Equality, Justice and the Earth? We draw on decision-making and discernment practices used by Quakers and others, and experiment with their application to practical choices that we face in our own lives and meetings.

Meetings for Eating

We learn about the environmental, social and peace implications of our food choices, and explore ways in which food and eating form part of spirituality in our own lives and in a variety of religious traditions. We consider the implications of treating food as a sacrament. The course includes experiences of meetings for worship for eating, and using meals as opportunities for community building. If appropriate kitchen facilities are available, it could include a Kitchen Ritual – cooking creatively together followed by worship-sharing over a meal.

Foundations for Sustainability: Three Spiritualities

Sustainability depends on finding ways in which individuals, communities and the natural world can flourish. The course explores differences and similarities in our spiritual paths – whether our practice starts by going within, by connection with our communities, or by connection with the natural world. We experiment with a variety of forms of individual, collective and green spiritual practices, and reflect on our experiences together to consider how our spirituality connects our social, peace and environmental witness.

The Living Witness Project is Registered Charity No. 1119938.
Postal Address: Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW.