The New Church in Europe: Outreach Challenges Plan and outline for workshop, by Stephen Muires UK Assembly July 14, 2012. 1. This workshop is about looking at the present and at the future. Not the past. If we could look at our past successes and ride that wave, we would not have this workshop here [...]
Archive for the ‘Workshops, plans, themes’ Category
UK New Church workshop July 2012
Posted in Workshops, plans, themes, tagged aboriginal woman, New Church, Swedenborg, UK Assembly on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
SWET Sweden is in the works
Posted in Workshops, plans, themes, tagged Grant Schnarr, SWET on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am wanting to get this message out to those who need to hear it…. :) Addressed to all the men in the New Church in Sweden and the rest of Europe. You are invited to attend the first S.W.E.T. weekend ever held in Sweden. This is a weekend for men. It will take place [...]
Module: Multimedia
Posted in Workshops, plans, themes, tagged color, experience, feelings, film, modules, sight, sound on January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Modular meetings main page. Multimedia Illustrating or introducing a topic, a struggle, a text. Using sound, color, pictures, music, film, enactment, smells, movement, light. Engaging senses and feelings. Answering questions like: What does it sound like? What does that look like? What does that smell like? Examples: A film clip from a Gospel film on [...]
Module: Music
Posted in Workshops, plans, themes, tagged Arbos, Arvo, Dar Williams, Karelia Suite, modules, music on November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Modular meetings main page. Music Here I want to focus in on the role of music as an expression and invocation of the spectrum of human states of feeling. There is a thing called “taste” in music and to discuss that is hopeless. So I won’t. Music exists and works on the emotions. For some [...]
Module: Process
Posted in Workshops, plans, themes, tagged modules, perception, process on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Modular meetings main page. Process An idea, a message, a question has been stated. Teachings have been drawn together. We have heard about this, approached it with our minds. Now it needs to be made part of life and of experience. Example: the teaching that death is a continuation of life. Different types of process: [...]
Module: Finding common ground
Posted in Workshops, plans, themes, tagged modules on October 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Modular meetings main page. Finding common ground Some topic or teaching has been stated. Each topic, for it to be relevant to us, has tensions, questions, beliefs. In this module we lay these out openly, on the table. Leading questions: what belief is alive in you about this topic? what questions does it bring up? [...]
Modular worship meetings
Posted in Workshops, plans, themes, tagged angels, blessing, church, meetings, modules, prayer, re-use, ritual, sacraments, sermon writing, talks, worship on October 19, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I am exploring a new way of conducting worship meetings (formerly called church services). This involves a flexible way of thinking about them, of planning them, of communicating with others. The central idea is one of MODULES. A module is like a section with a specific nature or purpose. A meeting will be a chain [...]
A four part harmony
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged council, medicine wheel, process, retreat, sermon, spiritual growth, spiritual retreat on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking about the flow of a day of spiritual work and instruction. Instruction – experience – engagement – embodying Instruction: a lesson, reading, or sermon. (Medicine wheel language) Black to white, autumn to winter. Chaos. Experience: process, guided meditation. White to yellow, winter to spring. Light. Engaging oneself: group work, council, circle. Yellow to red, [...]
Boundaries: part five – Day of crossing
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged boundary, cross, eagle, Eden, Jacob's dream, Jesus, regeneration, Swedenborg, turtle on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Part one. – overview Part two. – freedom and regeneration Part three. – young people Part four. – format young people The boundary theme for adults, focusing on regeneration, the necessary crossing of boundaries that must take place. Adults have gained experience. Lots of good and lots of less good experience. They have established personal [...]
Boundaries: part four – day of freedom
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged boundary, Canaan, cross, divine providence, eagle, Eden, Jesus, Native American wisdom, regeneration, Swedenborg, turtle on July 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Part one. Part two. Part three. The freedom theme, for young people. Group questions and format guidelines. What boundaries do you find people crossing with you, in your experience? What boundaries do you have? What do you do when someone, a friend, a parent, crosses a boundary with you? And how does this make you [...]
Boundaries: part three – Eagles and turtles
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged boundary, Canaan, cross, eagle, Eden, Jesus, Native American wisdom, regeneration, Swedenborg, turtle on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Part one is here. Part two is here. The freedom theme, for young people. I listened to a webcast about vision quests, modern culture and ancient traditions, by a Native American speaker called Sequoia Trueblood. He said, about children growing up, that parents are always already planning for their children to be eagles, when they [...]
Boundaries: part two – A two part theme
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged boundary, Canaan, cross, Eden, Jesus, regeneration, Swedenborg on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Part one is here. So there’s a theme in this. Something that can be applied for both adults and young people, with a different emphasis. Main theological teaching that lies underneath “boundaries”: freedom. We are created free. We have choice. We are unique individuals. Our relationship with the Divine depends on this. Our freedom is [...]
Boundaries: part one – To cross or not
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged boundary, Canaan, cross, Eden, Jesus on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In counseling classes I learned about boundaries. People cross each other’s boundaries, unwittingly.This causes subtle hurt and feelings of unsafety. There’s a talk in this subject somewhere. In the Bible are stories of boundaries that get crossed and some that don’t get crossed. Off-hand, boundaries that do not get crossed: – Adam and Eve cannot [...]
