Day 1 Breakout Sessions (audio)
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Morning Breakout Sessions
Room 1:- Michael O'Sullivan - Jesus and the Situation of Women then and now
- Bernadette Flanagan - How do we embody new life and bring to fruition the gifts we are given?
- Catherine Lambert - How to Catch Courage farom a Beguine?
Room 2:
- Lea De Baker - Experiencing spirituality: Embodying a new life in the journey of healing from addiction
- Anne Pate - Remembering and storying gifts received: challenges and possibilities in spiritual direction with modern seekers
- Matt Gray - The Desert Forebears as Pathways out of Burnout
Room 4:
- Beth Crisp - A Stitch in time: finding God in the eye of a needle
- Miriam Fisher - Sewing and Gleaning: artistic contemplative practice as invitation
- Bruce Hulme - The Emmaus Labyrinth: How a ‘Fluke’ Led to Three Invitational Themes for Meaning-Making
Room 5:
- Janelle Fletcher - Shaping Identities through Religious Music Engagement: A Case Study of an Australian Catholic Girls’ School
- Audrey Stratham - ‘Educating children and young people’s spirituality for democratic life in Australian faith schools’
- Stuart Devenish - ‘Can the Christian Spiritual Tradition be a School for the Soulfor Secular Mystics in the Post-Secular Age?’
Room 6:
- Di Shearer - Experiencing Communion Consciousness in Wisdom as Presence
- Mark Riessen - An invitation to the dance floor of missional vocation
- Matthew Wickman - The Path - But First, the Call: Discernment in Laura Reece Hogan’s Theopoetics
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Room 1:- Johan Roux - Psalm 23 and developing spirituality for resilient leadership
- Sean Gilbert - “First be filled, then control the outpouring.” St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the courage of embodying affective pastoral leadership
- Joanna Giannes - Sacred stories: deepening relationships in leadership development - an organic inquiry
Room 2:
- Aizaiah Yong - Guided by Surprise: Proposing a Contemplacostal Spirituality of Tending to Despair
- John Dupuche - A ‘Copernican Revolution’ in the field of spirituality.
- Verity Riessen - Musings of a Mystic: The Desert, The Cave and The Lioness
Room 4:
- Elizabeth Lee - Exploring a Contemplative Approach to Theological Action Research
- Katharine Massam - To be the leaven in the dough: the Young Christian Workers’ spirituality of action as a resource for transforming the world
- Kirsten Macaitis/Ben Lohmeyer/Richard Schirmer - Making space for contemplative conversations in the classroom in the context of display-averse spirituality in Australian Christian Churches.
Room 5:
- Deborah Robertson - Leading Lament
- Aaron Chalmers - OT wisdom literature and discernment
- Francis McAloon - Spiritual Affiliation: An Ignatian spirituality approach to living with chronic illness and disability.