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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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9 <span>It's felt really good for me personally, just feels like there is somebody there</span>
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10 <span>outside of us who's given a spiritual and all sorts of
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11 different support.</span>
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14 <span>It's been somebody outside the local meeting and outside the
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15 local structure to whom</span><span>one can go to talk things
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16 through. Somebody whose job it is to do that, so</span><span>you
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17 don't feel you're imposing on them.</span>
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20 <span>I found Helen very useful and
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21 supportive,</span><span>particularly in helping to enable
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22 things, resolve issues,</span><span>connect people with each other
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23 and with resources in Friends House and elsewhere.</span>
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26 <span>She lightened the atmosphere somehow and got us talking to
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27 one</span><span>another in a way that we hadn't done before. We
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28 felt able to speak our truth really,</span><span>which somehow hadn't
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29 been working beforehand.</span>
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32 <span>It almost validated, I suppose, things that we
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33 were</span><span>thinking about doing already. So, we now have a
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34 northeast Wales cluster and</span><span>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</span><span>have get-togethers for joint worship, because of
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37 course in Wales most of our</span><span>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</span><span>moved along faster than it would have been by
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40 Helen's presence.</span>
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42 <div>
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43 <span>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,</span><span>but I think now
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45 they're beginning to understand her work better -</span><span>they
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46 were very keen for us to have her for our retreat this year.</span>
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49 <span>She has been very involved in getting more integration into
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50 the meeting and getting</span><span>people really thinking in terms of
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51 it being a group of Friends,</span><span>whose interests are
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52 all common and therefore getting them to work together.</span>
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54 <div><!-- Frances Voelcker -->
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55 <span>Well, she was always very constructive in her
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56 suggestions.</span><span>No doubt, she observed what we were doing
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57 wrong, but the way she handled it was to</span><span>suggest things
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58 that we might do differently or do better.</span>
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61 <span>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</span><span>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</span><span>meetings of which in which
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65 we participated.</span>
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68 <span>She acts as a bridge and that is precisely</span><span>what she's been doing. She's not overly involved,</span><span>in the sense of taking control over matters, but just lets us breathe ourselves and</span><span>offers us those opportunities develop our own ideas in our own particular way, but</span><span>that contact with other Friends has been very, very valuable indeed</span>
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