MIDWEEK Dec. 4: Susan Loucks | You're Not In Traffic, You Are Traffic
About this MIDWEEK practice
Quaker meetings are ideally places where power is shared broadly. However, we show up with assumptions and conditioning from other kinds of power structures. If power is like water, what are ways we can all get enough to drink, without organizational floods and droughts? Is our use of power a spiritual discipline - individually and collectively? Join us for a powerful evening of exploration!
Susan is a nonprofit consultant, working with organizations that are interested in creating as good a world inside their walls as they are striving to build on the outside. She designs and facilitates processes for change, planning, skill building, and organizational improvement with particular attention to broad and effective participation and power dynamics within organizations. One of the best jobs of her life was clerking Beacon Hill Friends Meeting - she has also served as clerk for Pittsburgh FM and Lake Erie Yearly Meeting.
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.
Event Accessibility
Beacon Hill Friends House is working on making our historic space accessible to everyone. (Covid policies for onsite attendees are below).
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.
Attending onsite at BHFH (Covid policy and directions)
All MIDWEEK practices are offered on Zoom and in-person at Beacon Hill Friends House. Here is the information you need if you choose to attend onsite. All registrants will also be sent the Zoom link.
Covid policies: All in-person attendees are required to wear a mask while inside. Masks will be available for those who forget them.
If you are feeling under the weather, please opt to attend on Zoom rather than onsite. You can make that choice on the day of the event and simply hop on the Zoom link!
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.
About Beacon Hill Friends House
Beacon Hill Friends House is a Quaker Center for Learning and Action in downtown Boston, MA. Founded in 1957, its mission is "to embody the Quaker principles of faith, simplicity, integrity, community, and social responsibility in order to nurture and call forth the Light in all of us." BHFH lives into its mission by:
Providing a center where Friends and others can meet, worship, and learn
Advancing and fostering the principles of the Religious Society of Friends
Offering opportunities for leadership development, personal deepening, and collective action
Maintaining a diverse, intentional, residential community guided by Friends principles