The theme of the conference is Playful Mentoring. Godly Play supports children's spiritual nurture and one of its chief features is acknowleging the contribution that play makes to a child's spiritual development. But how do Godly Play practitioners -- in their roles of storytellers and door persons (welcomers) -- understand and support this specific link between play and spiritual growth?
Certainly, much of what takes place in the Godly Play process depends to a large extent on the attitudes of the adults in the room. Therefore, this conference focuses on the role of Godly Play teachers as mentors. What do they need to do to encourage playfulness in children? How do they encounter their own needs to (re)connect spiritual experience, knowledge and community with play? What are the limits and opportunities to evaluate the Godly Play process when it is characterized by this quality of playfulness and joy? The conference programme has been designed with the aim of helping participants address these questions. There will be times to discover and to wonder, to share thoughts and to enjoy silence, to celebrate and to be surprised by the unknown.
Lugar
'Burg Bodenstein'is a small XI century castle in the heart of today's united Germany, just a few miles from the old border ('iron curtain') separating East and West, and near the medieval city of Mühlhausen, whose cathedral the young Bach was organ master.
More information
Godly Play Germany's website contains more info in English, as well as a number of photos.· Conference flyer
· Registration info
· Conference programme
· Children welcome
· Travel instructions
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| Organizing group: Hilde Delin (Norway), Peter Privett (UK), Martin Steinhäuser (Germany), David Pritchard (Spain), Juha Luodeslampi (Finland), Evamaria Simon (Germany), Rune Oystese (Norway), Ulrike Labuhn (Germany) y Uwe Huchthausen (Germany), who took the photo. |
