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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: quaker-meeting-for-worship-with-attention-to-business
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title: Meeting for Business
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description: >-
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A Quaker meeting for conducting business through worshipful listening and
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discernment of the "sense of the meeting," without voting. Practised by
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the Religious Society of Friends since the 17th century.
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source: Britain Yearly Meeting, "Quaker Faith and Practice"
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source_url: https://www.quaker.org.uk/
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tags: [quaker, business, discernment, consensus]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Settle into worship
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description: >-
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The meeting opens with silence, settling the group into a worshipful
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state before any business is conducted.
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- headline: Present the matter
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description: >-
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The clerk introduces the item with relevant facts and any minute from
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a prior meeting, then pauses for reflection.
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- headline: Speak as led
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description: >-
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Participants rise to speak only as they feel led by the Spirit,
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one at a time, with pauses between contributions.
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- headline: Discern the sense
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description: >-
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The clerk listens for the emerging "sense of the meeting" and drafts a
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minute reflecting it, reading it back for the meeting's unity.
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- headline: Record the minute
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description: >-
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When the meeting unites on the minute, it is recorded. If unity is not
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reached, the matter is held over or laid aside.
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outcome: >-
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A decision is recorded that the meeting can unite behind, reached through
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worshipful discernment rather than majority rule.
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practice: >-
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The clerk serves, not leads — drafting the minute is the work of
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discernment. If two strongly held positions remain, the clerk lays the
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matter down rather than forcing a vote. |