Registration Fee:For local congregation ministry agents $350.00Costs for servicese.g. chaplains, schools, agencies etc. $550.00

Please complete and post or email with cheque or Direct Deposit to: Wellington Regional Mission, 036-122 189408

Godly Play in WAWellington Regional Mission, St Augustine Church, 119 Mangles St, Bunbury 6230

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GODLY PLAY IN W.A.

12-14 JULY - BUNBURY 18-20 JULY - DARLINGTON

3 Day Core TrainingRegistrations Strictly Limited to 14

First registered gets in!

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Carolyn Handley is a Godly Play trainer with 7 yearsʼ experience in using Godly Play with children in school and church settings, now also using Godly Play as adult Bible Study and pastoral care with children. Carolyn led workshops at the Godly Play national launch in July 2011.. Carolyn delights that, through Godly Play, she can still learn fresh insights from familiar Bible stories. Carolyn is a member of Roseville Uniting Church in Sydney.

Rev Peter Privett is the International Regional Training Consultant for Godly Play for the UK and Europe. He trained as a teacher in the halcyon days of the late 1960ʼs working in schools in Birmingham and the ʻBlack Countryʼ where creativity and child centred education ruled the day. Peter was ordained in 1978 as an Anglican Priest, working in Parishes in Birmingham and then as a Diocesan Education Advisor in Hereford.

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Caryl Menkhus Creswell is recorded (ordained) in the Quaker tradition and pastored among Friends for 13 years. She was introduced to Godly Play over 15 years ago and continues her journey of becoming fluent in this language by being on the floor regularly with children.  Caryl has  served as the Director of Tra in ing for the Godly Play Foundation and continues to travel nationally and internationally to train and support Godly Play practitioners. She brings a wealth of p r a c t i c a l e x p e r i e n c e a n d passionate spirituality to her training practice.   You will learn about Godly Play as well as be s p i r i t u a l l y n u r t u r e d a n d encouraged.  

For Registrations and Enquiries Contact

St Augustine Uniting Church119 Mangles St, Bunbury WA 6230

T: (08) 97914157 F: (08) 97212189E: staugustineuca@internode.on.net

Jeff Creswell was trained as a Godly Play trainer in January 2012. He has been facilitating Courage and Renewal® retreats s ince 2000 for c lergy and congregational leaders,  educators and cross-professional groups.  He was a classroom teacher in Portland, Oregon for 32 years, and is an educational consultant sharing the Scottish Storyline method with educators. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral where he sings in the choir.  He and his wife, Caryl enjoy spending time with their blended family of eight children and three grandchildren.

Godly Play is based upon the recognition that children have an innate sense of the presence of God. All they lack is the appropriate language to help them identify and express it so it can be explored and strengthened.

The Godly Play approach teaches classical Christian language in a way that enhances the childʼs authentic experience of God so it can contribute to the creative life of the child and the world.

Godly Play teaches children the art of using Christian language - parable, sacred story, silence and liturgical action - helping them become more fully aware of the mystery of Godʼs presence in their lives. When Christian language is learned by the Godly Play approach, it is learned as a means to know God and to make meaning of our lives. This approach is quite different from the traditional model in which the teacher tells the children what

they need to know. Godly Play is not about things that are that simple. It is not just about learning lessons or keeping children entertained. It is about locating each lesson in the whole system of Christian language and involving the creative process to discover the depths of meaning in them.

Itʼs about understanding how each of the stories of Godʼs people connects with the childʼs own experience and relationship with God. Godly Play respects the innate spirituality of children and encourages curiosity and imagination in experiencing the mystery and joy of God.

The goal of Godly Play is to show how to be open to the Holy Spirit, The Creator, and the Redeemer all at once and all the time in every place. To achieve this goal is to help children become deeply rooted as Christians and yet at the same time use this powerful language and community to be open and creative.

Godly Play is a creative and imaginative approach to Christian nurture. Godly Play is based on long established, tried and tested approaches. Godly Play encourages participants to make meaning for themselves by inviting them into stories and providing the opportunity for them to connect the stories with their personal experience.

Godly Play is a non-coercive way to encourage people to move into larger dimensions of belief and faith through wondering questions and open-ended response time. Godly Play values process, openness and discovery.

Godly Play is a way of preparing children to join in the worship and life of their congregations as they develop a deeper understanding of stories, symbols and rites.

Although it was originally developed as a resource for children, Godly Play is now being used with a wide range of age groups in a diversity of settings.

These two courses in WA are made possible by the co-operation of The Uniting Church in Australia Presbytery

of WA First Third Ministry Team and Wellington Regional Mission and The Anglican Church in Australia, Perth Diocese and Congregations of Darlington-Bellvue