Experiences & Workshops can now be selected via link in emails!
Thursday 21 July: On Country Experiences
The Story: Deep Listening on Country.
Participants are invited to consider how ways of knowing, being and doing have sustained First Nations peoples’ connection to country and story since time immemorial. Through walking and being on country, participants are invited to deeply listen as leaders to country, in relationship, and to wisdom.
See below for information about the two On Country Experience options.
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Friday 22 July: Workshop Options
Our Story: Encounter through Dialogue.
Keynote Speakers and Workshops will invite you to reflect on how you can foster dialogue in your relationships, classrooms and our world. This process will take place through the four workshop strands on offer to explore; Curriculum, Formation, Reconciliation and Spirituality.
See below for information regarding workshop sessions.
Self Selected Session Options at Gimuy Experience
1. I Can Fly with Susan Reyes: This session invites participants to listen and explore the significance of story through the use symbols and images. Participants will listen to the story of the 3 Sisters and their journey of being called back home to their ancestral land. Through their story participants are invited to come on a journey to discover their own story.
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2. Walk Country with Henry Fourmile: This session will walk Country with Henry being introduced to Country, and Story through the lense of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji peoples. Starting at the totem poles near Wharf One on the southern end of the Esplanade and finishing at the Gallery (Old Court House) you will hear first-hand significance of Country and Story of Gimuy (Cairns).
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3. Guided Meditation with Karen Reyes: This session will introduce participants to explore First Nations ways of quietening the mind and listening deeply to their inner self through guided meditation. Karen will share her Aboriginal cultural knowledge as well as the wisdom learned through her own personal and spiritual journey of healing over the past twenty years.
Thursday 21 July: On Country Experiences
Friday 22 July: Session One Workshop Options
Curriculum
Encountering Scripture in the Classroom.
Bec Burns- Formation Consultant, Cairns, CES
Formation
Prayer Renewal.
Mary Mudge- System Learning and Teaching Adviser- RE Townsville, CEO
Reconciliation
Respectful Two-way Dialogue with First Nations Peoples.
Brad Jarro (Bidjara and Ghungalu)- Indigenous Education Coordinator, Rockhampton, CEO
Spirituality
The Universe Story; An interactive experience of the 14-billion-year unfolding Universe process to bring the knowledge from our heads to our heart.
Marysia Rice- AP Identity EREA (St Edmund's Ipswich)
Friday 22 July: Session Two Workshop Options
Curriculum
Deep Listening to Wisdom; The Power of Conversation (a pedagogical approach
to dialogue in the RE classroom).
Catie Kelly and Paul Blom- Brisbane, CEO
Formation
Encounter;
Catholic Identity Framework.
Sharon O’Keeffe and Antoinette Cole- Cairns, CES
Reconciliation
Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in schools.
Dr Mayrah Dreise (Gamilaraay and Yeeralaraay)- Brisbane, CEO
Spirituality
Authentic Reconciliation and Fraternity. An understanding of Catholic and Indigenous Theologies.
Clint McGoldrick (Worimi) Faith & Ministry Leader, EREA (St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe)
Friday 22 July: Session Three Workshop Options
Curriculum
Dialogue through Bibliodrama in the Religious Education Classroom.
Rachel McLean and
Adrien Inness-Simpson,
Cairns, CES
Formation
Connection to country:
Be Still and Know I am God (Formation that informs the
development of a RAP).
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Antoinette Cole and
Bec Burns, Cairns, CES
Reconciliation
Respectful Two-way Dialogue with First Nations Peoples.
Brad Jarro (Bidjara and Ghungalu)- Indigenous Education Coordinator, Rockhampton, CEO
Spirituality
Authentic Reconciliation and Fraternity. An understanding of Catholic and Indigenous Theologies.
Clint McGoldrick (Worimi) Faith & Ministry Leader, EREA (St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe)