Preparing for creative participation
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Before the WCC's
8th Assembly in November 1998 in Harare, Zimbabwe, more than 1000 women
gathered for an Ecumenical Decade (of churches in solidarity with women)
Festival
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Pre-Assembly women's meeting
11-13 February 2006
During this two-day meeting in Porto Alegre, panel discussions and multi-media
presentations will help the approximately 300 women delegates to prepare
themselves to deal creatively with the content - the
issues and themes slated for discussion in plenaries and in "ecumenical
conversations" - and the style - including the rules of
debate and the consensus model of decision-making - of a WCC Assembly.
Alongside these sessions, community-building - including worship,
Bible study, and creation of "sister" groups - will also
help prepare the women delegates to play a central role in the life of
the Assembly.
At the Assembly, a women's space - the "Colméia", which
means beehive - will allow delegates, Brazilian and other women
visitors to meet with prominent women coming to the Assembly, discuss
Brazilian and Latin American women's concerns and link these to global
ones, or simply to rest and be silent. The "Colméia" will be
managed and run by local women.
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