George Lakey recently did a workshop at RantWoman's Meeting. RantWoman thought of just showing up despite electronic bulletins that the event was full. RantWoman was not led to do that but the Workshop came to RantWoman anyway via email.
RantWoman has two basic messages, though they come packaged in lots of different narratives. RantWoman keeps challenging Friends to listen to her messages over time and identify the themes RantWoman is most consistently to offer vocal ministry about.
This message is on the second of RantWoman's themes about candor and help coming from unexpected directions, riffing also on Rantwoman's other main message: the value of praying and worshipping together across difference.
"George Lakey uses consultants to help his groups to see things they don't
see by themselves. He says recently a consultant told a successful group
(pressured large bank to stop funding mountain top mining) that they were
too "nice." He said Quakers come off as too nice and that makes other
people not trust them, because no one is that nice. He says the consultant
told them they needed to work more on conflict, where they were open about
where they didn't agree but respected each other."
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