Montreal, Quebec, 1 October 2008 (CBNS) — On the weekend of September 19-21, a diverse group of young adults gathered at the Montreal Bahá’í Centre and the House of Friendship – a community centre that is owned by the Mennonites and that has several local groups working out of it – for a “skills-share” conference aimed at contributing to the transformation of their physical, emotional and spiritual environment.

Rather than organize a conventional Bahá’í youth conference, Nika Khanjani responded to a request by the Local Spiritual Assembly of Montreal by approaching the conference as an opportunity to take advantage of the Bahá’í community’s potential to serve as a facilitator of diverse people and organizations who share conceptual concerns