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April Quarterly Meeting – joint program with Concord Quarter & Wilmington Friends School

By Deb Wood on February 6, 2019 in

April Quarterly Meeting

Western AND Concord Quarters at Wilmington Friends School

(101 School Road, Wilmington, DE)

Children’s Program (during Meeting for Worship and Afternoon Program for elementary and middle school age Friends)

child care available 9-11:45 am and 1-3 pm

8:45-9 am Sign-In
9-10:15 am Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business – for each Quarter
10:30-11:30 am Joint Meeting for Worship
11:45 am -12:45 pm Lunch for all
1-3 pm Program by Dr. Amanda Kemp

5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Racial Bias, with Dr. Amanda Kemp

5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Bias

About a year ago Starbucks Cafe closed every store in the nation to provide implicit bias training to its employees. Their training was spurred by an April incident in which employees at a Philadelphia Starbucks store asked the police to remove two black entrepreneurs who were waiting for a business contact. More recently, Lancaster City Police used a taser on an unarmed Black man who was cooperating. This was caught on video and has spurred action.

But what about the everyday indignities, harms and unconscious biases that go unnoticed and largely unintended?

Dr. Kemp’s Racial Bias Awareness and Prevention Training offers:

Tools to have productive conversations about racism;
Ways to recognize and stop actions driven by unconscious bias;
Greater understanding of institutional racism;
5 steps to make your businesses, organizations, and communities more inclusive and equitable.

Note while this is an introductory workshop in many ways, participants will be given opportunities to continue learning and practicing skills gained previously. Participants who have engaged in this work regularly will have much to offer those new to the work. It is an opportunity for all participants to expand the ways we know ourselves and each other.

Registrants will be given pre-work to prepare for the presentation.

We also recommend the Stop the Hurt 5 Day Challenge or go to www.dramandakemp.com for Dr. Kemp’s book.

For more information on Dr. Amanda Kemp, please check these links:
Founder of Theatre for Transformation
Watch “Make America Great Not the Land of Hate Again” Music video
TEDx Talk “How to Lean into Conversations about Race…”
www.dramandakemp.com

Quarterly Meeting – January 15

By Deb Wood on November 29, 2016 in

Time to Wake Up & Stand Up
Fighting for Social Justice in the 21st Century

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Featured Speaker: Jerry Franklin Poe

Jerry Franklin Poe Jr. is the Vice President of the Martin Luther King Jr. CommUNITY of Greater Kennett Square and an active member of the MLK Advocates. He has been a leader in the struggle for social justice for many years. Jerry believes in confronting injustice by speaking the truth in love.
Jerry will speak to us about the MLK CommUNITY of GKA’s function in Southern Chester County. Their work and mission are directly aligned with Friends’ testimonies of community, equality and peace, and many Friends in our Quarter have been (and continue to be) involved.

Schedule:
9:00 – 9:25 – Registration and coffee
9:30 – 10:30 – Worship
10:45 – 11:45 – Program: Time to Wake Up & Stand Up
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 3.:00 – WQM Business Meeting

After a few minutes of shared Worship the children will enjoy their own program centered in our community & equality testimonies.

Childcare for the very young can also be available. Contact: youth@westernquarterquakers.org