Fall Sessions 2026

December 4–6, online via Zoom

Dear Friends,

Sessions Committee is pleased to invite you to join NYYM Friends for Fall Sessions 2026, to be held online only, Friday, December 4 through Sunday, December 6, 2026. Fall Sessions gives us the opportunity to worship together, attend to business and learn from each other. We hope that you will join us for some or all the sessions.

Fall Sessions will begin on Friday evening with a program led by Helen Mullin to help us sense and connect with ourselves and each other. She will guide us in exploring our responses in business meetings through the lens of our feelings in addition to our thoughts. We will get to explore this further in small groups. We hope this session will prepare us to work together in considering the business before the yearly meeting. Worship on Saturday morning will help ground us before the first meeting for worship with attention to business. Saturday afternoon will be a continuation of listening together as we address our business.

Saturday evening’s program will be led by the NYYM delegation to Palestine and Israel this summer. They will report to us about what they learned from and experienced while meeting Palestinians and Israelis in August. Alex and Monica will lead the delegation in their presentation.

Fall Sessions concludes on Sunday with our last meeting for worship with attention to business on Sunday afternoon, 2:45–5:00 p.m. We invite each of you to worship with your own monthly meeting before the online business session in the afternoon.

Registration will open next week. The requested registration contribution of $100 will help cover the cost of the technology and the people who will make it possible for us to be together throughout the year.

I look forward to joining you in worship, business, learning and fellowship.

— Anne Collins, Clerk of NYYM's Sessions Committee

Fall Sessions 2026 Schedule

Friday Evening Program at Fall Sessions

December 4, on Zoom

In order to fully and peacefully engage in hard conversations with Friends, we must be grounded in our bodies, in Spirit, and in our community. This takes practice to do well. At Fall Sessions, our Friday evening program will be "Sensing and Connecting with Ourselves and with Each Other." Helen Mullin, co-clerk of NYYM's Worship at Sessions committee, will facilitate the program. There will be a brief presentation followed by small group worship sharing around aspects of Friends’ journeys in Quakerism.

Registration

Registration is completely online. If you are unable to register online, please ask someone you know to assist you, or call the NYYM office at 212-673-5750. Volunteers are ready, willing, and able to provide online registration assistance. The Suggested Contribution for Fall Sessions is $100, and follows the Pay As Led model.

Register now using the Online Registration Form.