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