QVA to resume working retreats
‘In the past two years of constraints and changing parameters, QVA have continued to ask the question: “What is our unique offering to the Quaker movement and society in general?”’
Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) has announced the return of its working retreats which, it says, are ‘just around the corner’. After a prolonged halt caused by the pandemic, working retreats next year will include Horton Community Farm in Bradford; the next encounter-based retreats in Israel and Palestine will run in October 2022.
Writing in the newsletter, Jeff Beatty, clerk to the trustees, and Simon Watkins, working retreats co-ordinator, said: ‘In the past two years of constraints and changing parameters, QVA have continued to ask the question: “What is our unique offering to the Quaker movement and society in general?”’
The organisation has been holding a series of online retreats throughout the pandemic. These have included ‘Encounters with Peacemakers: Waging Peace’, where speakers Hanna Barag of Machsom Watch and Jean Zaru of Ramallah Friends Meeting spoke of their experiences of occupation.
Next month a series on ‘Refugee Journeys’ will be led by facilitators Eirlys Evans and Christie Coho. It will include experiences of migration, entering the UK, and settling here.
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