Practicing Discernment

Are you seeking spiritual guidance and clarity?

This workshop is an opportunity to explore and practice skills that are useful for personal discernment, spiritual friendships, clearness committees, and faithfulness groups. Every participant will have space in a small group to explore some relationship, commitment, leading, service, call, or witness for which you are seeking clarity. Participants are welcome to stay for dinner after the workshop.

Leader(s)

Marcelle Martin has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States, and was the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill for four years. The author of  Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, and  A Guide to Faithfulness Groups, she has also written about faith in three Pendle Hill pamphlets and many articles. She feels a great affinity with the first Quakers in the 17th century, but also is clear that we are urgently called to something bold, radical, and new in our time. On her blog, A Whole Heart, she shares inspiration to help us be all God has created us to be. She is a member of Swarthmore Friends Meeting and lives in Chester, PA, with her husband, Terry.

Financial aid may be available. If you are seeking funds to participate in this program, click to review and complete our Financial Assistance Application and a Pendle Hill staff member will follow-up with you shortly (please do NOT register online). Thank you for your interest.

Travel directions to Pendle Hill. Please make sure to review our health and safety expectations at https://pendlehill.org/stay/covid-19-information/.