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Welcome
I hope you find the latest blogs below of interest, please pass on to colleagues and/or use the material in your bulletins. This newsletter is stored here for ease of linking if you want people to access all the information.
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Grace,
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'What about me?' - Part 1
Christianity is not only a set of beliefs to be spoken; it is “a presence to be embodied.” Successful Christian work can still miss people. The Church must stay close enough to real people to hear the question, “What about me?”
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'What about me?' - Part 2
The Church is “not called to be useful” but “to be transformational,” and “to be the embodiment of love.” Has its social work has become too much like professional service delivery and not enough like shared life.
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Social Renewal |
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The hidden trade-offs of development
“Creative destruction” is a process where new tech and entrepreneurial practices displace firms, known procedures and often society by reshaping identities, community cohesion, aspirations, state-society relations.
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We Build Bridges
An innovative online course designed to foster social cohesion through a fresh approach and practical tools - learning and implementing an approach to building social infrastructure in the neighbourhoods where you live or work.
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Life Chances |
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Assessing Creative Thinking
Creative thinking is a teachable skill, measurable and essential for future learning, work and citizenship. Children today will have jobs that do not yet exist, using new tech to solve novel problems and emerging challenges.
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How can we feel truely loved?
People often look for love in wrong places. They may try to become more successful, look impressive, hide flaws, have 1 way of showing love or try to make someone love them more. But feeling loved comes from real connection.
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In-Person - Multiply Pioneer Mission - 9:30am 17 Oct - London
Mission on the margins. Gather with others called to pioneer new worshipping communities in creative ways. Celebrate stories of hope, explore theology that sustains, and share practical wisdom for mission at the edges.
Together, we will look with hope to what God is doing on the margins, encourage those already stepping out in faith, and take up the call to reach new people in new and renewed ways with the love of Christ.
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In-Person - LoveRural - National Rural Mission Conference - 5pm 19-20 Oct - Stone, Staffs
Passionate about making disciples in rural areas?
Join this 24 hour gathering and connect with other rural mission practitioners to share wisdom and encouragement. Find mission agencies, partners and resources for local mission. Learn from researchers in regional mission strategy and be inspired to prayer and praise as we discover what God is doing in small settlements and areas of low population.
You can look forward to learning about:cross-denominational and multigenerational ministry, how small can be beautiful, young people and families, discoveries from church-planting and other new initiatives
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Online - Organizing community assemblies - 3pm 27 Oct
The Assemblis team are hosting a series of informal drop-in sessions for anyone who's organised a community assembly, is thinking about it, or is just curious how it's done.
Each session is lean coffee style — no slides, no fixed agenda. You bring the questions, we vote on what to talk about, and we timebox the conversation so everyone gets airtime. Each one focuses on a different stage of running an assembly:
Plan — getting from an idea to a real, scheduled assembly - Oct 27
Facilitate — running the room on the day - Nov 11
Follow-up — closing the loop afterwards - Nov 26
Turn up for one, two, or all three. Bring a question, a discussion topic, or just your curiosity. 45–60 minutes, on Zoom.
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Online - On-demand Webinar: Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse - 31 Oct - 21 Nov
This on-demand webinar can be watched any time from Saturday 31 October to Saturday 21 November. You can also pause the recording and come back to it at a time that suits.
This webinar will explore how to identify and respond to child sexual abuse in ways that support healing, mental health and wellbeing. This webinar will help you:
- identify the signs of child sexual abuse and support children and young people to move beyond secrecy
- develop practice strategies to navigate conversations with children and young people about sexual abuse and respond confidently and effectively to disclosures
- develop practice strategies that support children, young people and parents to describe their experiences of abuse and support them to move beyond shame and self-blame.
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In-Person - How The Body Keeps the Score tour – 1-7 Nov - Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Bath
Traumatic experiences leave their imprint on the body as well as the mind. Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for healing. The helplessness and invisibility associated with trauma need not be inevitable.
Drawn from more than thirty years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Dr Bessel van der Kolk’s global bestseller The Body Keeps The Score showed us that the terror and isolation at the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body – and demonstrated a new approach to recovery, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies to heal mind, brain and body. Fusing insights from the cutting-edge of neuroscience with the weight of decades of experience as an active therapist, Dr van der Kolk will reveal the power of our relationships – whether in the intimacy of the home or in our wider communities – to both hurt and heal.
Join us to discover how both adults and children can reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives.
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In-Person and Online - How to scale social innovations: growing an organisation to deliver - 6pm 3 Nov - London
Nesta. Plenty of promising social innovations never get past the pilot. Others lose momentum once the early enthusiasm fades, because the organisation behind them doesn’t have the direction or capacity to grow. So far, the series has looked at forming strategic partnerships, how to use delivery networks and policy influencing as routes to scale. This final event looks at the organisation behind the idea and what it takes to build one that can grow.
Through lightning talks and discussion, our speakers will share practical lessons from scaling their own organisations, drawing on Nesta’s scaling toolbox. They’ll cover building capability by developing staff expertise and leadership, securing funding and choosing the right financial model, and strengthening internal systems so the organisation can sustain its impact as it grows.
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The Events calendar, with more events, is here. |
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