News from CCS and the CCS community
UPDATE: This event has been cancelled due to lack of registrations. Alas. Watch for more short term programming sponsored by CCS in the future. Identify your own faith stance! Practice sharing faith with respect and in a way that honours differences! Faith Conversations With Integrity is a a short-term learning opportunity sponsored by the Centre…
Noon-hour learning at the Centre fro Christian Studies. Bring your lunch. September 14 Theology of Accompaniment and Solidarity Dianne Baker and Louise Simbanduwe October 12 Theology of Justice and Liberation Barbara Lloyd, Maylanne Maybee and Yoon Ok Shin November 9 Theology of Creation Fjola Hart Wasekeesikaw. Paul Gehrs and Shaun Loney December 14 Theology of…
These CCS Grads / Friends will be at the CCS display from time to time throughout the week – please visit and say ‘hello’ to: Christina Paradella • Ken DeLisle • Ruth Sword • Keith Simmonds • Nan Corrigan • Kelly McComb • Elaine Kellogg • Beth Kerr • Mary Ann MacFarlane • Linda Ervin…
Congratulations and best-wishes to the new Keeper of the Circle at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre. Announcement from SSSC: The Board of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Adrian Jacobs as the Keeper of the Circle, the principal of this newly amalgamated school. Adrian Jacobs Adrian Jacobs is Cayuga First Nation…
Marc Desrosiers writes: With very mixed emotions and further to Maylanne’s message above, I will be leaving CCS effective August 3rd (from the office), and from active staff service to CCS on August 22nd. Due to personal / professional reasons only, I have been blessed with the sudden offer of a position as Vice-President Philanthropy…
Much of the CCS staff were on holidays during the month of July. Ted, Ann, and Scott were off all month, with Liz taking a few weeks here and there. Maylanne and Marc must have done an adequate job looking after the place, since it was still standing when Ted, Ann, and Scott returned. The…
Some of our United Church friends might want to keep tabs on the General Council, meeting this August in Ottawa. The church has provided a bunch of ways to experience the 41st General Council from anywhere: Online The GC41.ca website offers a variety of mobile and desktop friendly options to follow the proceedings of the…
CCS is thrilled to have been awarded a grant in the amount of $15,000 by The Winnipeg Foundation to re-shingle the roof of our home. “This will add years of ‘life’ to our facility”, said Brian Faurschou, P. Eng., CCS’S volunteer Treasurer. “Our next step is to seek funding for re-painting and for other modest…
CCS is inviting nominations for its annual “Companion of the Centre.” Through this award, CCS honors, at the Annual Service of Celebration, one or more persons: graduates who through their life and ministry, have brought distinction and honour to the Centre for Christian Studies, or, members of the Centre for Christian Studies community (friends, volunteers,…
Companion of the Centre, former editor of Tapestry and chair of the Communications Committee, and friend of CCS, Ken DeLisle was recently elected president of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Conference of the United Church. (Ken publishes regular “President’s Ponderings“) Congratulations Ken and best wishes.
There have been a few updates to the schedule for the CCS 120th Anniversary celebration in October. On the opening night there will be a public lecture on “Transformative Hope – A Dialogue” with Stan McKay and Joy Kogawa. At the Saturday evening banquet Caryn Douglas will be honoured as a Companion of the Centre. …
CCS isn’t the only theological centre with an anniverary this year. Five Oaks Centre is celebrating its 60th! And to mark the occasion they’ve published o book of memories, “Seasons at the Centre”. A number of CCS friends have contributed to the book, including Diane Trollope, Wilda Bostwick, Gwyn Griffith, Ted Dodd. CCS grad Debra…
Again, I was privileged to facilitate the Leadership Development Module from June 4-16. This time I was co-leading with recent CCS graduate, Kimiko Karpoff. Ten very engaged students expressed deep appreciation for this powerful learning experience. At each LDM, I am struck by the rich mix of the CCS approach to education.
We invest a lot of time building community and developing a sense of trust. We are “big” on teaming, respecting differences, and honouring diversity. Self-awareness grows in this relational setting where many experience a sense of safety to share themselves at a deep level.
We offer experiential learning with lots of creativity and “hands on” learning. The model incorporates a participatory action and contemplative reflection, prayerfulness and playfulness.
We tend to start with an affirmative stance; each participant is seen as a worthwhile and valuable child of God. Students are not empty vessels waiting to be filled, but adults with gifts and talents, experiences and backgrounds that form and shape who they are. That being said we also devote much time to evaluation; every time we turn around an opportunity to share feedback is extended.
The hallmark of your pedagogy is transformative integration. People are changed in the process of learning about themselves, working with others and the journey of faith. We strive to hold together heart and head, theory and practice, mind and spirit, the personal and the political, being and doing.
Ted Dodd
The two-week June 2012 Leadership Development Module in New Westminster, BC ended yesterday. All reports indicate that it was a spirit-filled time of reflection and growth (and hard work and lots of reading). Maybe we’ll update you when Ted gets back to Winnipeg.
Registrations are still coming in for CCS’s 120th Anniversary celebration this fall. And if you have any memorabilia from CCS or its United Church and Anglican forerunners, let Marc know.