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