Marcelle Martin has traveled widely to facilitate programs at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the USA. She began leading workshops and teaching courses about spirituality in 1986. From 2006-2010, she served as resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill retreat and study center (in Wallingford, PA).  She has been a core teacher of the 9-month Nurturing Faithfulness programs held at Woolman Hill retreat center and online, and of the Way of Ministry Program, co-sponsored by the School of the Spirit and Pendle Hill.  She has c0-led two 5-day Quaker Wisdom Schools with Cynthia Bourgeault and Paulette Meier.  In 2013, Marcelle was the Mullen Writing Fellow at Earlham School of Religion, where she worked on her book, Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey, published by Inner Light Books in 2016.  This book examines ten elements of the spiritual transformation experienced by the first Friends and by Quakers in our time.  A second book, A Guide to Faithfulness Groups was published in 2019.  Marcelle is following a leading of the Spirit to nurture the vitality of individuals and spiritual communities by helping people open to the direct experience of God active within and among them. She is a member of Swarthmore Friends Meeting (PA), which recognizes and supports her ministry.

During this weekend retreat, we will experiment with a variety of approaches to prayer and meditation, including thanksgiving, intercession, healing prayer, mindfulness meditation, Centering Prayer, Grand Silence, meeting for worship, and prayer with images, music, and the body. We will also contemplate the meanings scripture stories may have for our own lives. We’ll consider stories of the desolation of Good Friday and the Easter morning conversation between Mary Magdalene and Jesus outside the empty tomb. How do we live with our own disappointed expectations? How do we find new hope? We will explore the healing that comes from joining in heart-felt prayer, contemplation, and worship with others.
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Marcelle Martin, a member of Swarthmore Meeting, is the author of Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey. For over twenty years, she has been leading workshops for Friends. She was the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill for four years, and the core teacher for the Nurturing Worship, Faith & Faithfulness program at Woolman Hill.

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Practices for Supporting Faithfulness

Ben Lomond Quaker Center

1000 Hubbard Gulch Rd, Ben Lomond, CA 95005

Offered in October 2021

In this 5-day retreat we’ll try practices to help each other pay attention to the divine presence within, explore what blocks our whole-hearted response, and offer support for following the leadings of the Spirit.  There will be time both for individual reflection and for supporting one another in pairs and small groups.  We’ll worship together and practice the Faithfulness Groups format.

Ben Lomond Quaker Center is a lovely retreat setting nestled among 80 acres of redwood forest, an hour and a half south of San Francisco and 25 minutes outside of Santa Cruz.

Payment for this 5-day retreat is by sliding scale.  Check the Ben Lomond website in 2020 to register.

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Postponed 

Practices that Support our Faithfulness

May 8- 1 0, 2020 (Friday through Sunday)

WOOLMAN HILL Quaker Retreat Center

107 Keets Road, Deerfield, MA 01342

with Marcelle Martin, Tammy Forner & Benjamin Warnke

Do you want companionship to explore how God is at work in you? Would you welcome support to clarify how you’re called to be faithful in your daily life? Are you discerning a call or leading, or seeking to clarify the next steps in following one? Come learn and practice ways to support one another in attending more deeply to Spirit and the promptings of Truth and Love. In small and large groups we’ll explore practices including deep listening, asking evoking questions, mirroring, and faithfulness groups. These practices can also help make spiritual friendships and clearness committees into opportunities to enter onto Holy Ground.

Marcelle Martin is the author of Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey and A Guide to Faithfulness Groups, published by Inner Light Books. A member of Swarthmore (PA) Meeting, she has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States.

Tammy Forner is a member of Hartford Monthly Meeting (CT), and serves on the Woolman Hill board. She completed Nurturing Worship, Faith and Faithfulness in 2018; and serves as an Associate in the Nurturing Faithfulness program, following a call into teaching, facilitation and spiritual nurture.

Benjamin Warnke is a member of Brooklyn (NY) Meeting, a past participant in two Nurturing Faithfulness programs and a member of a faithfulness group that has met for more than two years.

Sliding scale cost $175-340  includes program, meals and accommodation. Scholarships available.

413-774-3431   www. woolmanhill.org   info@ woolmanhill.org   www.Facebook.com/

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Recently Offered Programs

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During this three-day weekend, we will experiment with numerous approaches to prayer and meditation, includingthanks-giving, petition, intercession, healing prayer, Examen, Lectio Divina, mindfulness meditation, walking meditation, Centering Prayer, Grand Silence, extended meeting for worship, and prayer with scripture, images, music, and the body. Through these experiments, we will seek to know more fully the nature of our consciousness, our true self, and our connection to God. We will explore how communion with the Divine affects not only our inner and outer lives, but radiates beyond us into the world. There will be opportunities to share our experiences with partners and in small groups. No particular beliefs are required, only a willingness to earnestly try different kinds of prayer and meditation, notice what we experience, and listen respectfully to the experiences shared by others.

Program cost of $310 includes program, meals and accommodation. Sliding scale and scholarships available.

Marcelle Martin, a member of Swarthmore Meeting, is the author of Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey. For over twenty years, she has been leading workshops for Friends. She was the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill for four years, and the core teacher for the Nurturing Worship, Faith & Faithfulness program at Woolman Hill.