Continuing the Journey 2010 - 'Psst!... Look who's talking'

3rd - 7th May 2010

The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick

Contact details:

Admin Office,
23 Park Road,
Ilkeston
Derbyshire,
DE7 5DA
Telephone: 0115 871 8564
Email: admin@continuingthejourney.com
Website: www.continuingthejourney.com

Event description:

The Continuing the Journey Conference was born in the 1980s, in an era when counselling, psychotherapy, social and community work were viewed as secular disciplines, and practitioners with a Christian faith found few places where they could articulate the connections which they wanted to make between their profession and their faith. At the same time, there were those within the ministry of the church who wanted to discover how their pastoral practice could be enriched by the insights coming out of these relatively new professions.

Over the years, Continuing the Journey has aimed to provide a safe meeting place for those who find themselves wanting to explore the border territories and the common ground between counselling, pastoral care, therapeutic or psychological work, and also spirituality, theology and faith issues. The conference provides a place where people may genuinely ‘touch’ but from which we ‘go’ at the end of the week back into the usual contexts of our lives. This ‘true but temporary’ connection provides the starting point for this year’s conference, reflective as it is of much of our experience in contemporary life.

This year: 2010 Conference Psst!....Look who’s talking:

‘Psst!’ says the voice, catching our attention. Curious, we turn to see where it’s coming from, but it keeps on moving, just on the edges of our awareness. Who does the voice belong to? What would we hear if we stopped long enough to pay attention? What might unfold if we did? And what might change?

This conference invites you to stop for a week and reflect on the voices that people hear. Those that people discount, discard, dismiss or disown are central to the work of pastor, social worker, politician, counsellor, priest, spiritual director or social activist. Not all voices are easy to hear, though, and we have to give conscious attention to the quiet ones, the off-centre ones, the ones that unsettle us, the ones that we suppress – both in others and within ourselves. And then there’s that still, small voice which keeps on saying ‘Psst!’ just when we thought we’d got everything sorted…

Speakers: Margaret Silf, John Bell, Isabel Clarke and Bill Bazely will tackle the theme from theological/biblical, spiritual, psychological/therapeutic and social/pastoral perspectives.

Pricing/Booking:

The full conference fee is £440 per person. This includes full board accommodation and attendance at all sessions. There is a reduced fee of £390 for those paying in full on or before 31st October 2009.

Call 0115 871 8564 or email admin@continuingthejourney.com for booking details.