Southeastern Yearly Meeting

Summer Executive Committee Meeting
2025-06-21 09:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Tampa Friends Meeting, 1502 W. Sligh Avenue, Tampa, FL, 33604, United States
Committees will have an opportunity to meet from 9:30am to 11:00am. Meetings can be in-person, or hybrid, or on Zoom only. If you plan to have a hybrid committee meeting, at least one of your committee members at the Tampa Meetinghouse MUST HAVE a laptop (or other Zoom enabled device) so that people at the meetinghouse can join those on Zoom in your committee’s online breakout room.
Reports and agenda items must be received in the SEYM office and by EC/IBM Clerk Bill Carlie no later than June 7. Please email your reports and agenda requests to Susan at office@seym.org AND to Bill at ymclerk@seymquakers.org.
You can find the Agenda and all the Documents in Advance submitted as of June 18th, here.
YOU MUST REGISTER whether you are planning to attend in person or online. Tampa Meeting’s hospitality committee is providing breakfast, lunch, and snacks, and needs to know how many people will be there in person. If you are attending online you will only receive the zoom information if you are registered.

The Right Time to Change: Growing Our Hearts to Meet the Moment
2025-07-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Online on Zoom
In this lecture, Quaker artist and facilitator Dwight Dunston will share some ideas on the conditions that catalyze change and readying ourselves for change, how to be faithful to continuing revelation and lead participants through exercises, conversation, and embodied practices to strengthen our capacity to change.

Dwight Dunston is a West Philly-based facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, and activist who has brought his creativity, care, and compassion to schools, community centers, retirement homes, festivals, and stadiums all over the country and internationally. He is a 2006 graduate of Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA, and has worked in Quaker institutions for most of his adult life, recently as a part of the teaching team at Pendle Hill’s 2025 Spring Term. Along with his bandmate, Brian Jordan, Dwight was the Friend in Residence at Haverford College in 2019 and he has done workshops and concerts at Quaker Schools and organizations all over, including Pennswood Village, Germantown Friends School, Moorestown Friends, and Carolina Friends School. Dwight is a Level II certified Kingian Nonviolence trainer, completing over 40 hours of training. He is also a trained mediator. You can hear Dwight in conversation with spirit-led artist and activist on Pendle Hill’s podcast, The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope.

Youth & Young Adult Beach Day
2025-08-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Mary McLeod Bethune Park, 6656 Atlantic Ave., New Smyrna Beach, 32169, United States
More details:

Youth under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
This event is free! (parking pass provided upon request–otherwise $20)
Lunch and drinks will be provided.
The park also has a lifeguard, tennis, volleyball, and basketball courts, restroom facilities, and outdoor showers.
Dogs are allowed at the park but not on beach

What to bring:

Beach chairs
Sunscreen
Floats and beach toys
Kayak/paddleboard
Snacks

Questions?
Contact Rachel Dellinger, SEYM Youth & Young Adult Coordinator, at yyacoordinator@seymquaker.org, or (352) 805-8725.

Child Safety Trainings
2025-09-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Online on Zoom
Who is the training for? Friends who wish to help create a safe and caring community for children are welcome to attend. Monthly Meetings are encouraged to use this training for their own youth workers, and to consider taking the training as a group. And if you wish to work with youth at SEYM events, this training is one requirement for becoming an SEYM registered Youth Worker under the Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP).
CAPP Coordinator Cheryl Demers-Holton is offering these Child Abuse protection trainings online to individuals or groups October and November:

Wednesday August 27th at 6:30 pm
Saturday August 30th at 9:00 am
Wednesday September 10th at 6:30 pm
Saturday September 13th at 9:00 am

Can’t make it on any of these days? No problem! Just let Cheryl know and she can set up another time that works best for you or your group. If you have any questions, please email Cheryl.
To learn more about becoming an SEYM CAPP-registered Youth Worker, see the Child Safety page.

Bubbling Springs: The Life & Writings of Margaret Fell
2025-09-20 10:00 - 12:00 | online on Zoom
Margaret Fell was an amazing person. From the day she met George Fox (whom she married after the death of her first husband), she threw herself wholeheartedly into the young Quaker movement, while at the same time raising eight children and fulfilling her domestic duties as the wife of the lord of a Manor. The first public Quaker meeting was held at her home, Swarthmoor Hall, just a few weeks after she met Fox; and Meetings continued to be held there for almost 40 years. This was despite her being imprisoned for holding them!
Margaret wrote sixteen books and many tracts and letters. Friends wrote to her from all over the world to share their suffering and ask for her help and support. This workshop series will focus on her inspirational writing, which is surprisingly relevant to the times we live in.
Each session will include stories about Margaret, readings of one or two of her letters and epistles, and time in small and large groups to consider her words. The language has been modernized and references to people in general and to God have been altered to be gender neutral.
Workshops will be on Zoom, Saturdays: 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, 9/20 from 10:00am to 12:00noon
Shulamith Clearbridge is a member of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting. She has taught workshops and classes all her life — for organizations, institutions, and continuing education programs. Shulamith has led workshops and retreats, Quaker Meetings for Healing, and adult religious education programs for monthly and quarterly Meetings in Vermont, the Chicago area, the Philadelphia area, and elsewhere; as well as for New England Yearly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Friends General Conference. Shulamith has also led workshops for Quaker retreat and conference centers, such as Pendle Hill. In addition, she has led programs on spirituality and Quakerism for church and interfaith groups.
In addition to teaching, Shulamith is a writer and an interfaith spiritual director. She has a Masters of Divinity — her 1995 book, Finding God: Prayers & Spiritual Practices from Many Traditions, was her thesis. She is the author of the Pendle Hill Pamphlet, Plain Talk about Dying: the Spiritual Effects of Taking My Father Off Life Support, and Good Night: Interfaith Prayers & Meditations Before Sleep, in press with Barclay Press.

Seekers Book Club Resumes October 2nd
2025-10-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Online on Zoom
About the book, John Calvi writes,
I’ve been watching the people in the places I work. I watch very carefully to see something in particular. Who is serving long term in a crisis situation and not becoming a victim of burnout? How is it that one can witness ongoing pain and suﬀering and continue to oﬀer their best? How does that work? The core of this book is about goodness and knowing your goodness. I am suggesting that knowing your goodness oﬀers strength and balance for hard work, specifically the hard work of healing one’s self and others.
How Far Have You Traveled is available in print through Quaker Books, and in paperback (new and used) and Kindle from Amazon.
If are interested in joining us email Cheryl Demers-Holton at cheryldemersrn@gmail.com

Fall Interim Business Meeting
2025-10-04 08:30 - 16:00 | Sarasota Meetinghouse, 3139 57th Street, Sarasota, FL, 34243, United States
Schedule
Friday, October 3rd
6:30 pm Fellowship7:00 pm Executive Committee meeting. All are welcome!
Saturday, October 4th
8:30 am Fellowship, coffee & donuts9:00 am Opening Worship9:30 am Committee meetings11:00 am Meeting Forum12noon Lunch provided by St. Pete Friends1:00 pm Business Meeting
Note:
Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance! We need to let Sarasota Friends know how many are coming.
If you have an agenda item, please email Bill Carlie, YM/EC/IBM Clerk.
For general questions, email Susan Wade, Admin Secretary
See the Agenda and Documents In Advance for the agenda, reports, and Zoom login.
If you missed the deadline for the DIAs, you can send in your late report. Please email your documents to both Bill Carlie, YM/EC/IBM Clerk AND Susan Wade, Admin Secretary .
Committees:
There will be Zoom breakout rooms for committee meetings. If you plan to have a committee meeting at FIBM, please remember to bring a laptop to allow folks to join on Zoom.
Documents In Advance
See the Documents In Advance>
Field Secretary for Earthcare Report to FIBM

Deland Quakers Host Regional Gathering
2025-10-19 10:00 - 14:00 | Earl Brown Park, Deland, 750 South Alabama Avenue, Deland, FL, 32724, United States

Extended Worship
2025-11-15 13:00 - 16:00 | online on Zoom
Early Friends often sat for hours at a time in worship. In limiting our worship time to an hour or less, is the power of the experience diminished for today’s Friends? Could sitting in worship for an extended period of time deepen your worship experience? Come and see!
We will sit primarily in silence, speaking out of the silence as each person feels led. Where will an hour and a half, two hours, three hours take you . . . if you let it?

Half Yearly Meeting 2025
2025-11-27 - 2025-11-30 | Wekiwa Springs State Park, 1800 Wekiwa Circle, Apopka, Florida

Winter Executive Committee Meeting 2026
2026-01-23 19:00 | Orlando Meetinghouse, 316 E. Marks St., Orlando, Florida
Details
Please send committee reports and requests for items to be added to the agenda via email to Bill Carlie, YM Clerk, or phone him at (407) 840-9862, AND send via email to Susan Wade, SEYM Administrative Secretary, or phone her at (407) 739-4150.
For general questions, please email Susan Wade, SEYM Administrative Secretary, or call her at 407-739-4150.
Documents for WEC and WIBM
WEC and WIBM 2026 Documents in Advance (with Agenda and Zoom login)

Winter Interim Business Meeting 2026
2026-01-24 | Orlando Meetinghouse, 316 E. Marks St., Orlando, Florida
Schedule
8:30 am: Fellowship, coffee & donuts9:00 am: Opening Worship9:30 am: Committee meetings11:00 am: Meeting Forum12noon: Lunch provided by Orlando Friends1:00 pm: Meeting for Business
Winter Executive Committee Meeting
You are also welcome to attend Winter Executive Committee Meeting on Friday, January 23rd. We will have fellowship at 6:30 pm, followed by the Executive Committee Meeting at 7 pm. This meeting will also be hybrid.
Michener Lecture
Stay overnight and attend the Michener Lecture on Sunday, January 26th. Queries for the seminar following the lecture.
Recommended hotels
Courtyard Orlando Downtown: 730 North Magnolia Avenue Orlando, Florida. The group rate is no longer available.
Details
If you have an agenda item please email Bill Carlie, YM clerk, or phone him at (407) 840-9862.
For general questions, please email Susan Wade, SEYM Administrative Secretary, or call her at 407-739-4150.
Deadlines
Spiritual State of the Meeting Reports are due February 28. Please send your reports to the SEYM Office.
Documents for WIBM
WIBM 2026 Documents in Advance (with Agenda and Zoom login)
Minutes of the 2025 Fall Interim Business Meeting

Michener Lecture 2026
2026-01-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Orlando Meetinghouse, 316 E. Marks St., Orlando, Florida

Yearly Executive Committee 2026
2026-03-27 19:00 - 20:30 | online on Zoom
If you have an agenda item please email Bill Carlie, YM Clerk and Susan Wade, SEYM Administrative Secretary. You may phone Bill at (407) 840-9862.
For general questions, please email Susan Wade, SEYM Administrative Secretary, or call her at 407-739-4150.
See the EC Agenda in theYearly Business Meeting Documents in Advance (DIAs)>
The Zoom window will open by 6:45 p.m. See the Zoom login>

Yearly Meeting Gathering 2026
2026-04-01 15:00 - 2026-04-05 13:00 | Dayspring Conference Center, 8411 25th Street East, Parrish, Florida
