Restorative experience

Sue Holden describes an insightful encounter with school children

'Everyone listens to the person who is speaking, even if you don’t like or 
you disagree with what’s being said.' | Photo: Jenny Spadafora / flickr CC.

The recent news item in the Friend (23 June) on the Bradford Peace Museum’s programme for schools put me in mind of a wonderfully nourishing experience some of us had recently, engaging with Year Six children from our local primary school. The head teacher, who is an attender at our Meeting, asked if she could bring the children up to the Meeting house for ‘Circle Time’, in the context of a programme in which she was introducing them to different denominations.

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