A Godly Play/Faith and Play Training for Quakers
with Melinda Wenner Bradley
an in-person program
August 29 – September 1, 2025
(a three-day weekend)
Want to make your Meeting a more welcoming place for kids and young families? Join Melinda Wenner Bradley (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) for this training over a long weekend at Quaker Center. Together we’ll learn and practice a method of storytelling grounded in deep respect for children that explores the existential limits of their lives through wonder, play, and stories from the Bible and Quaker faith and practice.
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This experiential approach to religious education can transform your program for children and nurture intergenerational spiritual community. Learn and practice a method of storytelling grounded in deep respect for children, that explores the existential limits of
their lives through wonder, play, and stories from the Bible and Quaker faith and practice.
Program costs
Like all Quaker Center programs, this program is priced along a sliding scale – we encourage you to contribute an amount that you are okay with and that enables you to attend. We hope the suggested cost ranges below will help you to do this.
Standard rate: $200-350.
Welcome rate: $75-150.
You can learn more about Quaker Center’s program costs here.
Childcare will be provided during the program sessions, and children are welcome to come along for free. Please note that, while this is a training for people who work with children, it is not a children’s program.
About the program leader
Melinda Wenner Bradley is a licensed Godly Play Trainer and the Director of Communications and Training for Faith & Play Stories, Inc. Since 2005, she has been sharing Godly Play and Faith & Play stories in children’s programs, intergenerational worship, school classrooms, teacher workshops, and international gatherings of Friends. Her teaching ministry weaves together interests in children’s spiritual lives, program development, and support for families and teachers in faith communities and schools. Melinda believes we need to shift religious formation away from scholastic models and toward experiential, belonging-focused ways of being with children and inviting them into spiritual community with all ages. The Godly Play method and stories, and for Friends the Faith & Play stories, are vital resources for making that change and nurturing growth in Quaker communities.
Read more in the downloadable flyer below.
You can learn more about Faith and Play at quakerfaithandplay.org.
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