The Right Time to Change: Growing Our Hearts to Meet the Moment

This program is an elective of the Pendle Hill Spring Term resident student program. Admitted Spring Term students will be automatically given the option to participate. Participants not enrolled in The Spring Term are invited to register as commuters, and are also invited to book a sojourn at Pendle Hill to live on campus for any or all of the course.

If you are seeking funds or alternate payment options to participate in this program, please wait to register and first complete our Financial Assistance Application.

If you would like to join us for dinner before any of the sessions, please sign up at least 24 business hours in advance.

In this workshop, Quaker artist and facilitator Dwight Dunston will lead participants through exercises, conversation, and embodied practices to get in touch with our deeply held beliefs while developing the skill to change our own mind.

The spiritual technology of continuing revelation has been essential to Quaker faith from the very beginning, requiring a fundamental openness to change. Yet actually allowing our hearts, minds, and spirits to be open to new truths is easier said than done. While the culture we live in promotes “sticking to our guns” when it comes to politics, justice issues, and even interpersonal dynamics and conflict, our faith calls us to be in community in order to ground into deeper discernment.

As Adam Grant teaches, “Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. It’s a path to learning more from the people around you and living with fewer regrets. A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it’s time to abandon some of your most treasured tools… and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.”

Leader

Dwight Dunston is a West Philly-based facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, and activist who has brought his creativity, care, and compassion to schools, community centers, retirement homes, festivals, and stadiums all over the country and internationally. He is the host of Pendle Hill’s podcast, The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope, and a teacher of Pendle Hill’s Spring Term.

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