Adult Library: Business Meeting

Brown, Charles K., Pray and Pay Attention, or How to enjoy Meeting for Business,
Southeastern YM, Orlando, FL,
1991
The Michener Lecture - to reinforce the enjoyment of the moving of the Spirit in a gathered meeting, and ways in which to recognize it.

Calgary Friends Meeting, Meeting for Business: the Movie,
Calgary, AB
Video tape and script of the movie.

Halliday, Robert, Mind the Oneness: The Foundation of Good Quaker Business Method,
Quaker Home Service, London,
ISBN#0-85245-235-7, 1991
The importance of community in the proper functionning of Meeting for Business. Includes facilitation techniques, and short section of exercises designed to review one's gifts.

Hickey, Damon, "Unforeseen Joy": Serving a Friends Meeting as Recording Clerk,
North Carolina YM, Greensboro, NC,
ISBN#0-942727-16-9, 1987
Excellent and delightful guide for Recording Clerks. Practical advice with a sprirtual basis.

Loring, Patricia, Spiritual Responsibility in the Meeting for Business,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
1993
Tract recalling the difference between Friends' process and the secular process of "reaching consensus".

Redfern, Keith, Before the Meeting: a Handbook for Clerks,
Quaker Home Service, London,
ISBN#0-85245-256-X, 1994
Advice for the Clerk, from the British perspective.

Sheeran,Michael J.,Beyond Majority Rule: Voteless Decision Making in the Religious Society of Friends,
Philadelphia YM, Philadelphia, PA,
2002
A Jesuit priest examines Quaker decision making in fascinating depth. Used in Episcopal discernment-training program. A Quakerism 101 resource.

Steere, Douglas V., The Quaker Meeting for Business,
Southeastern YM, Tallahassee,FL,
1995
Walton Memorial Lecture for 1982. A useful discussion of the meanings and responsibilities of corporate discernment.

Watson, William Braasch, Before Business Begins: Notes for Friends Meeting Recording Clerks and Recorders,
Mosher Book & Tract Committee, New England YM, 1996
Small, and bound to lay flat for reference during meetings, full of tips and sample minutes for recorders on topics faced repeatedly by Friends.

The Search for Unity and Not in the Way of the World,
Quaker Home Service, London,
1995
Video pack on the Quaker business method containing two videos on tape. Includes notes for group leader and discussion sessions.