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