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id: quaker-meeting-for-worship-with-attention-to-business
title: Quaker Meeting for Business
description: >-
A Quaker meeting for conducting business through worshipful listening and
discernment of the "sense of the meeting," without voting. Practised by
the Religious Society of Friends since the 17th century.
source: Britain Yearly Meeting, "Quaker Faith and Practice"
source_url: https://www.quaker.org.uk/
tags: [quaker, business, discernment, consensus]
forked_from: null
image: null
steps:
- headline: Settle into worship
description: >-
The meeting opens with silence, settling the group into a worshipful
state before any business is conducted.
- headline: Present the matter
description: >-
The clerk introduces the item with relevant facts and any minute from
a prior meeting, then pauses for reflection.
- headline: Speak as led
description: >-
Participants rise to speak only as they feel led by the Spirit,
one at a time, with pauses between contributions.
- headline: Discern the sense
description: >-
The clerk listens for the emerging "sense of the meeting" and drafts a
minute reflecting it, reading it back for the meeting's unity.
- headline: Record the minute
description: >-
When the meeting unites on the minute, it is recorded. If unity is not
reached, the matter is held over or laid aside.
outcome: >-
A decision is recorded that the meeting can unite behind, reached through
worshipful discernment rather than majority rule.
practice: >-
The clerk serves, not leads — drafting the minute is the work of
discernment. If two strongly held positions remain, the clerk lays the
matter down rather than forcing a vote.