MIDWEEK Apr. 24: Glenna McKitterick | Lost & Found: How to Recover Calm Quickly in Chaos!
About this MIDWEEK practice
As a Quaker and an Interfaith Healthcare Chaplain for many years, Glenna has relied on Quaker practices and principles for long-term spiritual strengthening—as well as for short-term, immediate reboots of their center, as needed in the "surprise" challenges of life. She has accepted that as humans, we all sometimes forget our center—especially when ambushed by an unexpected personal trigger or someone’s intentional aggression. How does one remember short-term "urgent self-care" in these human moments of forgetting? Glenna invites us to share together the mindful methodology of "Quick Fix" that she has grown to love.
Glenna McKitterick is a program fellow at the Beacon Hill Friends House, a member of the Fresh Pond Quaker meeting, and an Interfaith Healthcare Chaplain.
What is MIDWEEK?
In the Quaker tradition of Midweek (Wednesday) worship, Beacon Hill Friends House brings you MIDWEEK: Experiments in Faithfulness. This is a weekly, one-hour, facilitated spiritual practice with Quaker flavor and an experimental ethos. Each week, a guest facilitator engages us in a unique spiritual practice that is meaningful to them, and that we can bring into our own lives.
MIDWEEK is always free and open to the public. If you'd like to support this program, you can make a donation here.
Attending events in-person at BHFH
All MIDWEEK practices going forward are offered on Zoom and in-person at Beacon Hill Friends House. If you choose to attend in our space, YOU MUST REGISTER BEFOREHAND and please read this information:
Covid policies: All in-person attendees are required to be up-to-date on vaccination against COVID-19 and to wear a mask while inside. We no longer ask for proof of vaccination upon entering the building. Masks will be available for those who forget them.
Getting to BHFH: Use the address "8 Chestnut St., Boston, MA, 02108" for navigation. We recommend taking public transit to get here: We are a short walk from every transit line in Boston. If you choose to drive in, paid street parking is available on Charles Street (and on Beacon Street before 6 pm). We also have parking passes available for $9 to the Boston Common Garage.
Event accessibility (covid policies are below): Beacon Hill Friends House is working on making our historic space accessible to everyone.
Automated Closed Captions will be available for all participants (on Zoom and in-person).
Physical space: This event will take place in our Parlor, which does not have a ground-level entrance. Our primary entrance is up a flight of stairs. If you would like to attend this event but need it to be held in a different space, please indicate so on your registration. On the basement level, we have a single-user, all-gender bathroom with wall-mounted handrails and ample space for chairs and/or aides. We are not a scent-free space but tend to be low-scent.