Purple Chicken Presente: Interest Groups in Collision

 

The Fluffy Purple Chicken
and the metal mocha mug

My elder is a purple chicken? Uhhhh, RantWoman, words, around humans? Why or why not?

For the record, RantWoman is extremely grateful an interest group about pastoral care is offered along with all the Quaker save the world offerings. RantWoman was not paying meticulous attention about possible time collisions when she specified a time for her interest group. 

RantWoman's interest group was well ehld and RantWoman is not clear to say more. And the Fluffy Purple Chicken's job here seems to be to advise RantWoman just to let the second iteration of  the pastoral care interest group occur before posting the long list of questions at least one inquiring mind wants to consider.

G-01. Disability Vocabulary Grab Bag

Dorene Cornwell

Dorene will bring a basket of terms related to disability and invite Friends to pick one or more and respond to worship sharing queries. This group is offered because one is needed about this topic, and offered in faith that those gathered will be well-led during the time together. For an introduction to this topic, please click
HERE. (Note: This group is also offered as B-01 on Friday 7/02 and K-07 on Friday 7/16.)

G-02. A Quaker Way of Providing Pastoral Care

Kate Jaramillo

(NOTE: This Interest Group was temporarily cancelled but is now available again. It is also offered as J-08 on Thursday, 7/15.) The principal interest of pastoral care is the personal welfare of those who are hurt, troubled, alienated, or confused. This suffering can be in the body, mind, or spirit. What exactly is "pastoral care"? Why is this a function of the Meeting? How do our Meetings provide pastoral care to our members and attenders? How do we Quakers care for each other throughout our lives? Are there any Quaker distinctives to our practice? How do we sustain ourselves in this challenging work of pastoral care? In this Interest Group we will discuss the fundamentals of pastoral care, our practices of pastoral care, and our ideas for improvement in our Meetings. It will be part lecture, part discussion, part small group activity. The hope is that you will leave with new learnings, enheartened confidence, and new ideas for the provision of pastoral care in your Meeting and in your life.

The interest group outline that came to RantWoman in recognition of this temporal juxtaposition

Interest Group Outline

Welcome and Worship

Introductions

   Name

  Meeting or Geography

   Any Access needs

  preferred pronoun(s)

  visual description of yourself and anything interesting about your surroundings

What rises when one notices that there are 24 people signed up for an interest group about pastoral care and 4 signed up for an interest group about disability?

When I think of disability and movements of Spirit I think...

My dream for people living with disabilities or growing up with disabilities in our Meetings  is

Something really hard for me about dealing with questions of disability is...

What draws you to this Interest Group?

The Scary Grab Bag of topics in the interest group description

Oh heavens! For once RantWoman is going to leave the large basket of questions on her mind for another time or fro browsing from RantWoman's many previous disability related offerings.