Resilient Spiritual Practices for a Time of Climate Crisis - Woodbrooke Course
Monday 5 October - Monday 9 November 2026
The live Zoom sessions are at 19:00-21:00 (UK time) every Monday.
Facilitator: Stephen Lingwood
How can you be sustained in a deeper way as you face the state of the world? How can spiritual practice nourish a more rooted approach to justice-making? This course will be a journey exploring resilience, spirituality, and activism.
For full details on this course, please go to the Woodbrooke website https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/and click on Climate Crisis tab
The Quaker Journey: Reflections Through Images (Woodbrooke)
Wednesday 14 October - Wednesday 21 October 2026
The live Zoom sessions are at 14:30-16:30 (UK time)
Can we respond better to the Quaker Light by seeing, looking and understanding Nature’s light? This two-part course invites you to view photographs as a form of visual ministry, discovering how our journeys through, and perspectives of, the world around us can ‘illuminate’ our faith.
https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/the-quaker-journey-reflections-through-images/
Living More Deliberately: Spiritual Activism With Henry David Thoreau (Woodbrooke)
Tuesday 17 November 2026
19:00-20:30 (UK time)
Robert Oulton
This session explores the spiritual vision of the American essayist philosopher and activist, Henry David Thoreau. Friends will discover his radical message for an age of organised untruth and climate crisis.
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Celebrating Times and Seasons As Quakers - Woodbrooke Course
14 December 2026, 15 March 2027 and Monday 21 June 2027
19:00-21:00 (UK time) on
Mondays
Facilitator: Gill Sewell
An opportunity to explore a variety of seasonal themed practices and to discern what might be useful in our own spiritual journey across the year, whether that’s a refreshed version of our established practice or something new and ‘shiny’. Let’s celebrate together!
For full details on this course, please go to the Woodbrooke website https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/and click on Climate Crisis tab
Friends of the Earth: Quakers and Environmentalism (Woodbrooke)
Wednesday 24 February - Wednesday 10 March 2027
The live Zoom sessions are at 19:30-21:00 (UK time) every Wednesday.
Lily Chadwick
Quakers around the world today are actively responding to the global climate crisis. How have Friends historically engaged with the Earth, its different environments, flora and fauna?
This three-week course explores Quakers’ historical relationship to the planet Earth, broadly conceived as ‘Quaker environmentalism’.
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https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/friends-of-the-earth-quakers-and-environmentalism/
Global Restorative Climate Justice (Woodbrooke)
Thursday 11 March 2027
12:30-14:30 (UK time)
Tanya Jones
Tanya Hubbard
What role might restorative justice have to play in addressing the complex relational web of those who cause climate harm and those living most with the burdens? How might this alternative approach to justice-building enable us to move forwards together?
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In Our Name: QUNO’s Witness on Climate Change
Tuesday 13 April 2027
19:00-20:30 (UK time)
Lindsey Fielder Cook
Tanya Hubbard
Woodbrooke and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) working in partnership.
In this fifth session of our series exploring the work of the Quaker United Nations Office, we will hear about their Quaker witness for climate justice and Earthcare at the international level, and how QUNO focuses ethical messages in evolving political dynamics.
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https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/in-our-name-qunos-witness-on-climate-change/
Reparation: Voices from Kenyan Friends
Thursday 22 April 2027
10:00-11:30 (UK time)
Hezron Masitsa
Tanya Hubbard
Woodbrooke and Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) working in partnership.
How might we heal historical injustices? Join this session to listen to the perspectives of Kenyan Friends, the largest Quaker community in the world. We will hear how the legacies of enslavement, colonialism, and systemic racism continue to shape their communities today.
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https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/reparation-voices-from-kenyan-friends/
In Our Name: QUNO’s Witness for Sustainable and Just Economic Systems
Tuesday 25 May 2027
19:00-20:30 (UK time)
Andrés Naranjo
Tanya Hubbard
Woodbrooke and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) working in partnership.
In this fourth session of our series exploring the work of the Quaker United Nations Office, we will hear how QUNO’s Sustainable and Just Economic Systems programme brings a Quaker approach into international discussions on trade, public finance and environmental sustainability.
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