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+*Meeting for Sufferings Appeal Review Group final report*
+
+QF&P provides for an process of appeal to MfS with respect to
+decisions of an Area Meeting and disputes between Area Meeting.
+Experience with this process has been less than wholly positive, and
+MfS commissioned a review.  The review group reported with
+recommendations for a narrowed and simplified process, including a
+preference for a "conflict transformation" approach (as opposed to
+"conflict resolution") and an explicit place for mediation before
+things get to Sufferings.
+
+MfS approved these recommendations, and specific changes to QF&P will
+be forthcoming.
+
+In this context Friends are reminded that Quaker Life can provide help
+and guidance to Meetings which are taken by surprise/taken aback by
+apparently irresolvable internal conflict.
+
+We were also reminded that difficulties around Membership often arise
+from "lack of familiarity with Quaker ... processes" and that
+accordingly care for a Ministry of Teaching in our meetings is
+necessary to help promote this familiarity.

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+Meeting for Sufferings
+
+7 April 2018
+
+Henry S. Thompson, SE Scotland AM representative
+
+All the papers for the meeting are available online at
+
+  http://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-april-2018-agenda--papers-package
+
+The minutes and other follow-up material will also appear sometime
+soon linked from
+
+  http://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/meeting-for-sufferings/papers-and-minutes