Resident Program Catalog

Nine Program Areas

Education programming at Pendle Hill is designed to allow students to have a wide array of learning options across our nine areas of programmatic focus. These nine areas, or Nine Realms, are salient examples of Pendle Hill’s mission, vision, and values in action. Whether you are participating in a weekend workshop or coming for a full year, your Pendle Hill experience will include at least a touch in one of the following areas:

Quaker Faith and Practice

Quaker beliefs, processes, and practices are central to the curriculum and community life at Pendle Hill. Resident Program courses, workshops, and lectures provide instruction on Quaker Faith and Practice across a spectrum of beliefs.

Dismantling Oppression

Pendle Hill offers Resident Program courses, workshops, and lectures designed to examine various mechanisms of privilege and oppression present in our society. Viewing these mechanisms as oppositional to the Friends Testimony of Equality, we seek to equip students with the knowledge and skills to confront and dismantle oppression in its various forms.

Spiritual Deepening

Defining spirituality broadly as that which draws a person closer to wholeness, Pendle Hill education programs offer many ways to explore or deepen one’s experience of a variety of spiritual practices. These include contemplation, movement, silence, and words.

Leadership Skill Development

Pendle Hill education programs are designed to equip students and participants for leadership and service in the wider world.

Ecological Literacy

In keeping with the Friends Testimony of Stewardship, Pendle Hill offers Resident Program courses, workshops, and lectures designed to educate students on ecological systems and to promote awareness of ecological issues as they relate to sustainability and social justice.

Personal Discernment

Educational programs at Pendle Hill are designed both to explore and to support the personal discernment process. Our program enables students to increase their capacity to move with action in the world, in order to create individual transformation and social change.

Arts and Crafts

Courses in art, music, and writing serve not only to build skills, but also to enliven the creative spirit of our students and program participants. Engagement with the creative spirit can unlock the pathways to learning and transformation.

Gandhian Constructive Program

Constructive Program is defined as “doing what one can to imaginatively and positively create justice within one’s own community.” Pendle Hill’s community and education programs are designed to empower students with the skills to build structures, systems, and processes that can serve as positive alternatives to systems of oppression.

Building Capacity for Nonviolent Social Change

Pendle Hill, in its role as a Quaker center for creating justice in the world, seeks, through its education programs, to support agents of change in their work by serving as a living laboratory where lessons drawn from social change movements can be re-imagined for today’s world.

Some courses are scheduled in the evening and on weekends to accommodate students who work during the week.

Though some students come for one or two terms, we encourage residence for a full program year (fall, winter, and spring terms) so that the cumulative benefit of the courses and workshops in all three terms can be attained.

Commuters welcome

Many people come from off-campus to attend Pendle Hill's short courses, weekend workshops, and retreats. Participation in weekend workshops is included in the Resident Program tuition.

Pendle Hill Resident Program 2013 to 2014

Pendle Hill Chorus with Jackie Coren is offered every term. Celebrating its 20th year, the Pendle Hill Chorus brings together the Pendle Hill community and the surrounding community in song and performance. All skill levels welcome.

Ceramics will be supported by the Friend in Residence during a weekly Open Art Studio.

Woodworking is also available as a weekly Open Shop evening.

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