Discernment Workshop March 9th

Discernment, a workshop presented by Jerry Knutson (Orlando Meeting), will be held online on Tuesday, March 9th, at 6:30-8:00 pm EST.

Jerry authored the Pendle Hill Pamphlet #443, Individual Spiritual Discernment: Receiving, Testing and Implementing Leadings from a Higher Power, which sold out in just 14 months, making it Pendle Hill’s bestseller.

In this workshop based on the pamphlet, participants will learn how to make hard decisions, and be led on a guided meditation to discern a question or to better understand an issue, situation, or relationship. (These are new and will be included in the next edition of the pamphlet.) The workshop will also include small groups to worship share on the guided meditation, a couple of ways to test the guidance, a way to implement the guidance, information on spiritual practices, and small groups to worship share on “What Daily Spiritual Practice am I currently doing and/or want to start doing?”

Jerry has prepared this handout, which serves as an outline and resource for the workshop, with sections on:

• Why are hard decisions so hard?
• Definition of discernment
• Receiving guidance—the holistic method
• Guided Meditation on the Holistic Method
• Testing the guidance
• Implementing the guidance
• Spiritual Practices

Registration is required to receive the Zoom login information. The workshop is free.

Jerry Knutson is a snow bird and has dual memberships in Orlando Monthly Meeting and Morgantown Monthly Meeting, WV. He started meditating in 1971 and began worshiping with Quakers in the mid 80’s. He was a residential student at Pendle Hill for four terms in 2002 and 2003. He has facilitated workshops in 22 states, Bethlehem, Palestine and Nakuru, Kenya. “Orlando Monthly Meeting continues to take under its care Jerry Knutson’s ministry in spirituality, discernment, Quakerism, and Bible study techniques.” He received a Master of Divinity Degree from Earlham School of Religion in May of 2014 with an emphasis on Christian Spirituality. In May 2018, he completed a Certificate in Spiritual Formation from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is a member of FWCC Traveling Ministry Corps.