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3 <title>How Vibrancy has made a difference</title>
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6 <h2>How Vibrancy has made a difference</h2>
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7 <p>[sub-titles from https://vimeo.com/326364444]</p>
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8 <p>
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9 It's felt really good for me personally, just feels like there is somebody there
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10 outside of us who's given a spiritual and all sorts of
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11 different support.
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14 It's been somebody outside the local meeting and outside the
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15 local structure to whom one can go to talk things
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16 through. Somebody whose job it is to do that, so you
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17 don't feel you're imposing on them.
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18 </p>
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20 I found Helen very useful and
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21 supportive, particularly in helping to enable
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22 things, resolve issues, connect people with each other
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23 and with resources in Friends House and elsewhere.
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24 </p>
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26 She lightened the atmosphere somehow and got us talking to
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27 one another in a way that we hadn't done before. We
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28 felt able to speak our truth really, which somehow hadn't
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29 been working beforehand.
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30 </p>
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32 It almost validated, I suppose, things that we
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33 were thinking about doing already. So, we now have a
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34 northeast Wales cluster and we've got a singing group
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35 going we've got a walking group going, we intend
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36 to have get-togethers for joint worship, because of
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37 course in Wales most of our meetings are very small,
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38 certainly in our rural area and all that really has
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39 been moved along faster than it would have been by
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40 Helen's presence.
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41 </p>
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42 <p>
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43 I have felt a slight reticence among some Friends about asking
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44 her to come to our meeting and do things, but I think now
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45 they're beginning to understand her work better - they
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46 were very keen for us to have her for our retreat this year.
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47 </p>
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48 <p>
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49 She has been very involved in getting more integration into
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50 the meeting and getting people really thinking in terms of
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51 it being a group of Friends, whose interests are
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52 all common and therefore getting them to work together.
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53 </p>
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54 <p><!-- Frances Voelcker -->
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55 Well, she was always very constructive in her
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56 suggestions. No doubt, she observed what we were doing
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57 wrong, but the way she handled it was to suggest things
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58 that we might do differently or do better.
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59 </p>
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60 <p>
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61 She's given us a point of focus to raise issues which are of
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62 interest to us, which we wish to develop and she's been
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63 able to put them in context. She's helped
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64 organise meetings of which in which
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65 we participated.
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68 She acts as a bridge and that is precisely what she's been doing. She's not overly involved, in the sense of taking control over matters, but just lets us breathe ourselves and offers us those opportunities develop our own ideas in our own particular way, but that contact with other Friends has been very, very valuable indeed.
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