Devon and Cornwall Quakers

Devon and Cornwall Quaker Gatherings

Inaugural Meeting at the Meeting House, St Austell, was held on Saturday June 13th 2009

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About fifty Friends attended the symposium, from the east of Devon to the west of Cornwall. The minute at the end read: 

"Today we have been part of a symposium led by Phil Barber and Scott Waldie. Their topic has been 'Be the Change', and using materials developed by the 'Be the Change Organisation', we have considered the inter-relationship between environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual, psychological and emotional health.
"We have considered the proposition that for us to achieve any significant improvement in any one of those areas, we need also to seek improvements in the other two. We have been encouraged to seek new ways of reconnecting to others and to our world. We acknowledge the importance of becoming less 'me' and more 'inter-be'. We thank Phil and Scott for their contribution to our thinking. We hope that individually and collectively we may be able to review and audit our current lifestyles, examine our assumptions, and contribute further to the on- going discussion taking place in Meeting for Sufferings prior to its submission to The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) before the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December.

We thank our Friends in St Austell for their hospitality and welcome, and leave in the hope that we shall meet again in Exeter on October 17th."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world"  Mahatma Ghandi.

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