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Tag Archives: spirituality
Big questions and small beginnings at Colchester Institute
Colchester Institute provides further education, vocational training and higher education to degree level for people from across the north east Essex area and beyond. This week we were involved at the huge Colchester campus as part of their Equality and Diversity week. … Continue reading
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Tagged spirituality, young people
Sanctum – Calm Jar
When we first created Sanctum we had a zone where students could just be still on beanbags in a white draped area. Amazingly, some ‘got it’ and, understanding the point of the exercise, actually experienced a bit of peace. But … Continue reading
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Tagged prayer, spirituality, young people
Sanctum at the Gilberd School
“Peaceful”, “Calming”, Relaxing”, “a safe place to let out your feelings”, “Spiritual”; just some of the words and phrases students used to describe their experience of Sanctum last week. Sanctum is our prayer space for schools and this was the … Continue reading
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Tagged cyo, prayer, spirituality, young people
Remembrance Project
After the impact of last year we’re running The Remembrance Project again, this time in two schools and the Sixth Form College. In the two schools we’re using a fabric banner representing a meadow and sky, one of which we … Continue reading
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Prayer Spaces in Schools autumn conferences online booking info
This is just an update to my earlier post about the upcoming Prayer Spaces in Schools conferences in October. Here are the online booking links: Online booking, London Online booking, Leeds Online booking, Edinburgh If you’re involved in, or interested … Continue reading
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Tagged chaplaincy, education, prayer, schools, spirituality, young people
Staying close to God in school
If you haven’t already found these (I was away when they were first posted) here are some lovely ideas for parents, pupils and students of any age about how to stay connected with God in all the pressure and busyness … Continue reading
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Tagged prayer, schools, spirituality
Prayer Spaces in Schools autumn conferences
In one week in July this year more prayer spaces happened in schools than in the whole of 2009. In four years 6 has become 260! From a simple seed of an idea has grown a movement that now embraces … Continue reading
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Tagged chaplaincy, education, prayer, schools, spirituality, young people
Sanctum – reflections on our week at Stanway School
Our 20th Sanctum concluded last lesson on Friday with a wonderful Year 8 class. This is a very good school and we’re very grateful for the way we’re welcomed and involved here. Although we haven’t yet had time to go … Continue reading
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Tagged cyo, prayer, schools, spirituality, young people
Sanctum at Stanway School
Sanctum, our prayer space for schools, is back in the Stanway School this week for the third year running. This has always been a special week for us, coming as it does at the end of the school year. We’re … Continue reading
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Art is Spiritual
Over the last few months Kathryn, our chaplain at Colchester Sixth Form College, has been working with a group of IB students on an art project “Art is Spiritual”. For an initial exploration of the subject we took the students … Continue reading
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