{"id":6512,"date":"2023-12-02T21:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2023-12-02T21:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T02:29:01","slug":"neym-midwinter-young-friends-retreat-january-13-15-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6512","title":{"rendered":"NEYM Midwinter Young Friends Retreat, January 13-15, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
From New England Yearly Meeting:
Register for the Midwinter Retreat by January 2nd<\/a>

Hello Young Friends!You are invited to our upcoming Midwinter Young Friends Retreat!<\/strong>\u00a0We will gather at Woolman Hill Retreat Center in Deerfield, MA from\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0January 13th\u00a0at 10 a.m. to\u00a0Monday,\u00a0January 15th\u00a0at 12 p.m. The theme is\u00a0“We are Whole Beings!\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0Over the long weekend, we will explore inward, with choices to engage in conversations and activities around different aspects of our whole selves: gender, sexuality, relationships, mental health, spirituality, and Quakerism. We will also play games, get to know each other, and enjoy the beautiful nature that Woolman Hill has to offer.\u00a0Anyone who is of high school age and curious about Quakerism is welcome to come!While we will not have a formal sex education as part of the structured retreat program, there will be educational materials available to Young Friends (such as books and pamphlets on sexuality, sexual health, and gender), as well as opportunities to ask anonymous questions to a health professional. This topic is part of the retreat because we hear from Young Friends that our sexuality, gender, and relationships\u2013just like our spirituality\u2013are aspects of ourselves that warrant loving reflecting and learning as we grow through adolescence. At this retreat, we seek to offer an affirming and age-appropriate space for that reflection and learning.\u00a0We know different aspects of this broad theme will speak to different individuals and nobody will be required to engage in a program that they are uncomfortable with. The goal is to have electives so that each Young Friend can explore topics that feel relevant for them. If you have any questions or concerns about any aspect of the retreat, please be in touch with Young Friends Interim Coordinator Drew Chasse (drew@neym.org<\/a>). Join us for a long weekend centered around embracing our wholeness with integrity, understanding, openness to Spirit, and love.

Other reasons to be excited about Young Friends Midwinter:It’s 8 hours longer than our other weekend retreats: more time to get to know one another and have fun!We sleep in beds and there are showersCozy fireplace in a 150-year-old farmhousePlease note that this retreat will begin on\u00a0Saturday\u00a0morning on\u00a0January 13th<\/strong>\u00a0(rather than\u00a0Friday\u00a0night on the 12th). Young Friends may arrive between\u00a010:30 and 11:30 a.m. on\u00a0Saturday<\/strong>, and leave between\u00a011:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. on\u00a0Monday.\u00a0<\/strong>

This retreat does fill up, so please register early to make sure you get a spot! The deadline to register is\u00a0Monday,\u00a0January 2nd.<\/strong>

I really hope we’ll see you later this winter!

Love, Drew

Drew Chasse, she\/they
Interim Young Friends Coordinator
978-382-1850
drew@neym.org<\/a><\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From New England Yearly Meeting:Register for the Midwinter Retreat by January 2nd Hello Young Friends!You are invited to our upcoming Midwinter Young Friends Retreat!\u00a0We will gather at Woolman Hill Retreat Center in Deerfield, MA from\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0January 13th\u00a0at 10 a.m. to\u00a0Monday,\u00a0January 15th\u00a0at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england-yearly-meeting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-1H2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}