For Annual Session 2025, North Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Committee on Addressing Harm with Care “Care Committee” will designate locations for affinity groups to provide safe gathering spaces for People of Color, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse people, and people with limited vision, hearing, or mobility. These groups will be self-organized by the participants.
The purpose of these groups is to provide opportunities for members to share their experiences and insights, where other participants will share common life experiences and general outlook, so that the members will not need to explain or justify their feelings. This supportive atmosphere is created for them to feel fully welcomed and included in Annual Session activities.
People who identify with more than one group are invited to choose the one that most deeply impacts their participation in Annual Session. People who do not identify with any of them are encouraged to absent themselves from the groups in order to support their flourishing from within.
If you would like to join in one of these affinity groups, please fill out this Registration form: https://forms.gle/FqR1jM9nsnYMKvqh9 . Information collected with this form will be used only to connect affinity group members to each other, and to announce the location of the meeting space available to each group.