Small Groups

The purpose of the Community Groups is to encourage and resource people in exploring our Rule…

A Way for Living with a focus on spiritual formation, and Companionship
(the together bit of the alone and together in Community).
The groups are good contexts in which stories and information, concerns and responsibilities
are shared about the wider Community.

In various parts of the Britain, elsewhere in Europe, Canada, USA, and Australia groups meet together,
often once a month, as local expressions of the Community. Most groups meet in someone’s house
and more often than not the Community, whenever it gathers, is found eating and drinking!

Groups are diverse in their make up and activities, affording space and freedom for both
spontaneity and creativity but permeated by the Community’s ethos and core values of
Availability and Vulnerability.

Sometimes groups will be involved in an aspect of Community’s life and work in their area.
Some groups have members with long established connections to the Community.
Others have formed almost spontaneously through a few people
meeting initially to say Office and share their own stories.