Busness Meeting Equality Transformation

A dialogue of sorts:

 

Hi RantWoman

The short pamphlet I mentioned yesterday is available online, although not as a pdf. This is called, When Friends Attend to Business… concise discussion of  the preparation for and conduct of business meeting. I'm interested in your opinion of both form (accessibility) and content.

http://www.pym.org/publications/pym-pamphlets/when-friends-attend-to-business/

 

 

RantWoman’s first pass reply (Warning: gentler than the second pass, post pending) 

Hi Friend,

Here are some links I am chewing on:

A Quaker Speak item RantWoman saved for just such moments

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-quakers-make-decisions-quaker-speak.html

from the Ben Pink Dandelion Swarthore lecture at Britain Yearly Meeting Annual Gathering this year. He does not exactly talk about business meeting but I have been chewing on various points

https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/news.php/412/2014-swarthmore-lecture-ben-pink-dandelion-to-call-for-a-return-to-a-transforming-and-transformation

 The Youtube video of the lecture:

http://youtu.be/oRO-lGD9emM

 Also topical George Gorman Lecture at Britain YM Annual Gathering. Equality and…

http://youtu.be/-HJVUMtoy8o

 Love, RantWoman

 

PS. Oh, Do you maybe want some queries on RantWoman’s mind. Understand, RantWoman's capacity for generating queries is, um, a work in progress.
 

Thank you for asking about accessibility. How much of a conversation are you prepared yet to have either about this content or about the broader question of all the things that add up to accessibility and allow people of very different gifts to be fully present? RantWoman apologizes for an urge to harangue you but RantWoman has only been trying to have this conversation for.....so when you are ready to listen, as a whole body, able collectively to do more than anyone's individual dribs and drabs....

Are there Friends available for genuine seasoning or do we just say "Go away and have some nice pastoral care and please do not challenge our need to feel really good about ourselves or ask us to think?

Are our business meetings conducted in a spirit of openness where Friends feel able and free to ask questions?

Do we hear a range of voices or do the same 8 people speak to every topic?

Do our minutes record actual minutes of exercise and promote thoughtful reflection over time or do we boil every whiff of soul out of the discussion and record only the barest minimum of the discussion?

 
RantWoman would be very happy to supply illustrative commentary from a recent spell of minutes taking. RantWoman as recording clerk put her foot down: those present were clearly not at unity and important concerns needing further reflection were articulated. RantWoman was frightenly blunt about the "not at unity" issue but fed back both points where she thinks / wants to test a sense of unity and points where further exercise is needed. Stay tuned.