Tackling Taboo: discerning difficult topics

This course is drawn from Windy’s experience with using a creative new model for corporate discernment to address important, but taboo, experiences with tenderness and wisdom.

We might be concerned with talking about taboo or hard things and avoid them, fearing we don’t have the skills to engage with tenderness and wisdom. This avoidance is causing ruptures in our communities where important experiences cannot be addressed.

The course offers a model of corporate sharing and listening that is based on both traditional Quaker clearness process and on ethnographic technique, moving from the individual’s personal clarity to the clarity of the community in circles of accompaniment.

In this course we will explore and seek to understand this method, using a mix of presentations, sharing, small group work and reflective activities.

There will be some material to look at before the first session. We will email you around one week prior to the course with information about accessing the course, including this material, on our online learning platform (Moodle).