# HG changeset patch # User Henry Thompson # Date 1570293465 -3600 # Node ID f220df7bee748961cf5f497f3a11fbdd52bc50ab # Parent f9ec1de55f16f6379d4290685ca2f2ceb0885b94 as copied from video but w/o
diff -r f9ec1de55f16 -r f220df7bee74 Sufferings/vibrancy_video.xml --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sufferings/vibrancy_video.xml Sat Oct 05 17:37:45 2019 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ + + +How Vibrancy has made a difference + + +

How Vibrancy has made a difference

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[sub-titles from https://vimeo.com/326364444]

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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 whomone can go to talk things +through. Somebody whose job it is to do that, soyou +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 +oneanother 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 +werethinking about doing already. So, we now have a +northeast Wales cluster andwe've got a singing group +going we've got a walking group going, we intend +tohave get-togethers for joint worship, because of +course in Wales most of ourmeetings are very small, +certainly in our rural area and all that really has +beenmoved 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 gettingpeople 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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+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 tosuggest 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 todevelop and she's been +able to put them in context. She's helped +organisemeetings of which in which +we participated. +
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+She acts as a bridge and that is preciselywhat she's been doing. She's not overly involved,in the sense of taking control over matters, but just lets us breathe ourselves andoffers us those opportunities develop our own ideas in our own particular way, butthat contact with other Friends has been very, very valuable indeed +
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