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Quaker Higher Education QHE a Publication of Friends Association for Higher Education Quaker Higher Education QHE A Publication of Friends Association for Higher Education Volume 4: Issue 2 November, 2010 This issue of QHE explores the theme to briefly introduce the Academy. At introduced in the first article, faithful last June’s Annual FAHE Conference, lives. Mike Heller and Deborah Shaw Diego was one of our featured, plenary deftly set the stage by sharing excerpts speakers. We were uplifted by the and insights from the workshops that inspiring story of his evolution from at- they presented last year, at Woodbrooke risk street youth, to AFSC organizer, and William Penn University, on the Harvard MBA graduate, computer lives of John Woolman and Thomas entrepreneur and founder of one of the Kelly. nation’s most successful programs for underprepared community college Mike Moyer follows providing us with a students. The Academy for College glimpse of his Quaker Values course at Excellence “lights a fire within” its William Penn University. In the course students and launches them on their Mike emphasizes the life of former academic journeys armed with new AFSC Executive Director and William confidence in their abilities. Penn graduate, Clarence Pickett, as a model of faithfulness. As you will see, Once again, it has been a pleasure Mikes own faithful commitment to sharing our contributing authors’ stories Quaker values is also apparent. with you. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome. The third article vividly illustrates a faithful, spirit-led commitment to Submissions: QHE is published twice a alleviating the high levels of stress year, in the spring and the fall. Articles experienced by graduate students at the submitted for possible publication University of Warwick’s new medical should be sent as Word documents to: school. Gill Grimshaw explains how, [email protected] . Since QHE is in spite of intractable family challenges, not wed to any particular referencing she persevered in developing support format, you may use the professional systems for the medical students. As a style of your choice. If you would like to result, she too was transformed. discuss an idea that you have for an article, my telephone number is: 860- The final article describes the 768-4186. In case you want to send a remarkable product resulting from hardcopy, my address is: Donn another faithful journey. With Diego Weinholtz, Department of Educational Navarro’s permission, I have excerpted Leadership, University of Hartford, 223 portions of Cabrillo College’s Academy Auerbach Hall, 200 Bloomfield Ave., for College Excellence website in order West Hartford, CT 06117. Woolman and Kelly: Faithful Lives Mike Heller and Deborah Shaw Roanoke College Guilford College In designing courses or coming up with this became a turning point after which retreat themes, it seems useful to think his life's work changed and deepened. about what we are most interested in as We identified the aspiration of returning well as what might be of interest and to our institutions or our daily lives with useful to others. For a retreat at a renewed sense of what it means to be Woodbrooke and a workshop for the faithful to our spiritual gifts. Each Friends Association for Higher evening in epilogue at Woodbrooke, we Education annual conference, we emphasized with participants our daily decided to offer “Woolman and Kelly: practices as the center of how we live Faithful Lives.” John Woolman and out a life of faith. We also made our Thomas Kelly are much admired for concluding session a time of worship out their faithful lives, even beyond the of which we invited people to speak to Society of Friends. We see them as the question "What Does It Mean to Live models for exploring these questions: a Faithful Life?" As one Woodbrooke • How can we learn from John participant expressed it, we seek a Woolman’s and Thomas Kelly’s practice of presence in everyday life. lives to engage with the spirit in our own lives? The beginning questions in our retreat • What does it mean to live a faithful were "Where are you now? What brings life? you here? " People shared a wide range of experiences, and we felt moved by Embedded in these overarching queries their honest sharing. One of the are further questions about service, participants shared how she was in the Quaker testimonies, simplicity, and how beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease, we respond to students and colleagues. and she wanted us to know that she does We wanted to approach this not do well with numbers if we asked experientially through worship, people to count off for discussion corporate and individual reflection, and groups. She spoke throughout the retreat journal writing and sharing. The with insight and gentleness that touched beginning place for us, that we feel all of us. Toward the end of the retreat almost everyone can identify with, is in she spoke of how we are called, with the struggles of our own lives. John childlike radiance, to be rather than to Woolman becomes all the more do. inspiring when we see how he struggled to accomplish what he felt called to do We structured the retreat around stages and how he drew upon the inward of life. We began each session with experience of the Spirit to guide him quiet worship. In the second session through difficulties. Perhaps more than "Childhood-Young Adult Journey," Woolman, Thomas Kelly went through Mike asked people to write in their an extremely dark time in his life, but journals a brief statement on each of 2 these questions, and then to choose one In another session, from Kelly's life we and write more: "How did your father focused on two letters to his wife Lael influence your spiritual journey? How and excerpts of his writing compiled in did your mother influence your spiritual Sanctuary of the Soul. In one of the journey? What was an early memory of letters to Lael, Kelly begins by saying “I awareness of social injustice? When did have never had such a soul-overturning you first speak in Quaker worship? Who summer or period such as this. He helped you find a song for life?" The speaks of having an ‘amazing series of first two questions about fathers and “openings” and experiences’ amongst mothers raised such painful memories those struggling in 1938 Germany, “men for some that it felt as if the room and women who have stirred me with temperature dropped twenty degrees. their Christlikeness or their simple trust We were in a kind of vortex of swirling or their deep insights or their intuitive emotions. Perhaps we should have not flashes” (17-18). Visiting Germany, jumped into such questions so soon or during a period when Nazism was prepared people better before asking nearing the height of its power, Kelly them to write on these questions. We was moved by seeing the human spirit in saw what was happening, and the face of oppression. This experience fortunately, Deborah threw a life-line to contributed greatly to his finding his those who needed it. We slowly proper path. regained our footing and Mike ended up not being entirely exiled by the group. These passages helped us consider the theme "Our Journeys—Way Opening." In another session, looking at Here we asked participants to enter into Woolman's and Kelly's lives, we talked "paired listening" in which they about how we all face difficulties in life. responded to the question "When was a We called this session, "Falling Apart: time when you experienced the way Life Changing Events," and used this opening with respect to a choice, a focus as a way to recover from the decision, a discernment?" For follow-up turmoil of the previous session. evening homework (contemplation or Drawing from the spiritual journey as journal writing), we asked them to think described in studies of myth and about this question: "How have you ex- mysticism, we talked about how we each perienced spiritual accompaniment: experience entering the dark forest and mentors, elders, companions?" must find our way to the other side. In a passage from "A Plea for the Poor," We talked about how we come out of Woolman writes that, "To labour for an crises in our lives. In Woolman's establishment in divine love where the Journal, chapter 12, there is the passage mind is disentangled from the power of about his sickness and his dream of darkness is the great business of man's merging in a murky cloud with suffering life" (249-50). As we talked about how humanity (185-87). As one participant we make our way through the difficult observed, Woolman was so low then, times in our lives, one participant disappearing into the great mass of observed that we surrender to that place, humanity, that he finally becomes even with a smile into the dark. accessible. We talked about the great crisis in Kelly’s life when he faced not 3 being allowed to complete his We talked about "Struggling to Be dissertation at Harvard. Heard" and we posed the questions: "How Has the Spirit Prospered with Friends in the retreat raised perceptive You? What does thankfulness have to questions about how Woolman do with the faithful life?" For consciously shaped the life story in his homework that evening, we asked Journal, and we talked about the people to think about what they are implications of that conscious shaping of doing to take care of the self. one’s own narrative. His Journal gives us the portrayal of a man who has great In our shorter version of the retreat, empathy and imagination, a man who is presented as a workshop at the Friends utterly believable.
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