Ted Engages Difference

Ted Engages Difference

Last week, Ted was in Toronto taking a course entitled, “Engage Difference: Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry.”  (The same course, organized by the Canadian Churches’ Forum, was run in Winnipeg last year.)  We asked Ted for some of his highlights and memories:

• As a small group, creating an experiential learning exercise to explore the characteristics of the dominant culture
• Reflecting on the joy of unlearning racism, we were encouraged to remember that the opposite of joy is not sadness, but fear
• Examining imaginative possibilities in conflict situations after being exposed to the concept
  • one choice = no choice,
  • two choices = the horns of a dilemma
  • three plus choices = freedom
• Creating a dialogue between the lines of the United Church Creed and playful, poignant observations about our prevailing white privilege
• Thinking about the differences between the Forum’s Hermeneutic Circle learning models and CCS’s spiral reflection methodology

“Throughout the six days of the course, I was blessed to meet with a diverse group of participants who shared respect, community and faith commitment.”

Participants in the Engage Difference: Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry event