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Summer School 2022 – Aotearoa, New Zealand – Widening the Circle of Participation
January 9, 2023, in Videos > Talk, by Sonjel VreelandThe 2022 Summer School for Aotearoa, New Zealand consisted of gatherings held locally from 27-30 December. The plenary presentation videos were intended as openers for further exploration and reflection by participants in subsequent workshops and sessions. This video is the second plenary session on the subject of “Widening the Circle of Participation”. Its speaker is Tessa Scrine, and in this talk she addresses the vision of Baha’u’llah, provides us with a historical context, talks about the role of groups of families, and describes how a significant shift has begun.
The full program for the summer school can be found online.
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Sonjel Vreeland
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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