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<h2>How Vibrancy has made a difference</h2>
<p>[sub-titles from https://vimeo.com/326364444]</p>
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It's felt really good for me personally, just feels like there is somebody there
outside of us who's given a spiritual and all sorts of
different support.
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It's been somebody outside the local meeting and outside the
local structure to whom one can go to talk things
through. Somebody whose job it is to do that, so you
don't feel you're imposing on them.
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I found Helen very useful and
supportive, particularly in helping to enable
things, resolve issues, connect people with each other
and with resources in Friends House and elsewhere.
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She lightened the atmosphere somehow and got us talking to
one another in a way that we hadn't done before. We
felt able to speak our truth really, which somehow hadn't
been working beforehand.
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It almost validated, I suppose, things that we
were thinking about doing already. So, we now have a
northeast Wales cluster and we've got a singing group
going we've got a walking group going, we intend
to have get-togethers for joint worship, because of
course in Wales most of our meetings are very small,
certainly in our rural area and all that really has
been moved along faster than it would have been by
Helen's presence.
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I have felt a slight reticence among some Friends about asking
her to come to our meeting and do things, but I think now
they're beginning to understand her work better - they
were very keen for us to have her for our retreat this year.
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She has been very involved in getting more integration into
the meeting and getting people really thinking in terms of
it being a group of Friends, whose interests are
all common and therefore getting them to work together.
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<p><!-- Frances Voelcker -->
Well, she was always very constructive in her
suggestions. No doubt, she observed what we were doing
wrong, but the way she handled it was to suggest things
that we might do differently or do better.
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She's given us a point of focus to raise issues which are of
interest to us, which we wish to develop and she's been
able to put them in context. She's helped
organise meetings of which in which
we participated.
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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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author	Henry S Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date	Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:02:12 +0000
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