Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Dialogue
1999 PARLIAMENT O F
DIALOGUE
10:00 AM-11:30 AM IN COMMERCE 2.54
The Spiritual and Moral Development of Children: An Interfaith Perspective
Ms. Clare Sartori Stein
This interactive workshop will explore ways to help children more fully develop their moral and spiritual potential, within the home and at school. Presenters will draw upon current creative thought and resource materials in the field, and tap into our personal experiences. How, for example, can a positive school environment and curriculum contribute to the spiritual development of children from varied cultural, social and religious backgrounds?
Ms. Clare Sartori- Stein is a school psychologist and holistic educator who teaches courses in child development at the University of Rhode Island. Also she is chairperson of the South County Interfaith Council of Rhode Island She has taught children and worked with families in rural areas of West Africa.
10:00 AM-11:30 AM IN COMMERCE 3.70 Turn the Other Cheek But Make Sure It's a Kiss
THURSDAY,
Dr. Hemlata Pokharna; Mandakini Pokharna
Anger is an alarm indicating that people are disconnected from ourselves and that their needs are not being met. Dealing with anger means restoring people's connection to themselves and making a choice of where to focus their attention. In this presentation, the presenters will understand where anger comes from, increase their awareness of anger, and learn ways of expressing their needs and feelings behind anger. Using skills and tools of compassionate communications, presenters will learn to hear and express anger compassionately without feeling guilty or blamed. The purpose of this workshop is to develop skills to maintain and strengthen peace within and without stressful situations, and resolve conflicts nonviolently into satisfying dialogues.
Dr. Hemlata Pokharna, Ph.D. (Biochemistry) is a research associate at the University of Chicago. Dr. Pokharna trained at the Gestalt Institute and Focusing Institute. Dr. Pokharna teaches meditation, alternatives to violence and nonviolent communications to promote health, wholeness and disease prevention.
Mandakini Pokharna MD. Practices Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. Mandakini is also trained at the Focusing Institute and Center for Nonviolent Communication.
10:00 AM-12:00 PM IN COMMERCE 2.57 The United Religions, An Organization Built by People, Determination, and the Liberty to Try Rev. Charles P. Gibbs; Ms. Sally M. Ackerly
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination and the liberty to try, ordinary people quite consistently do extraordinary things. From its beginning, the United Religions Initiative has been a vision and an invitation. The vision has been of an unprecedented level of global interreligious cooperation for the good of all. The invitation has been to people all over the world. If you share this vision, you are invited to join in making it real. The fruit of this effort, the birth of the United Religions in June 2000, is near. This workshop will invite people to take part in a concrete activity to imagine and to create models of how the UR might take root in local settings and specific interests.
For the past three and a half years, Canon Charles Gibbs has served as Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative, a global movement where people of the world's religious, spiritual, and indigenous communities gather in mutual respect, dialogue, and cooperative action to end religious violence and create cultures of peace and justice as a sacred trust for future generations. Before URI, he served as the Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in San Francisco, CA.
Sally Mahe Ackerly is a full-time project manager with the United Religions Initiative, with offices in the San Francisco Presidio. She holds an M.Ed. from Harvard and also a Masters degree in Spiritual Direction from
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2:00 PM-2:45 PM IN COMMERCE 3.60
A Productive Cyberspace for Spirituality and Religion
Dr. Paul Trafford
The workshop will show how the internet may assist those engaged in spiritual and religious inquiry, study and dialogue. The program will highlight: 1) the scope of avenues available to support and enhance study and encounter; 2) describe means for locating relevant and helpful contacts and resources; 3) indicate added dimensions for projects in the real world. Discussion will be substantiated by, MultiFaithNet, a World Wide Web site for religious resource and research.
Paul has been raised from birth in two traditions: Christianity and Buddhism. He works as an Internet developer at the University of Derby. where he is involved in the Multi Faith Center project as well as MultiFaithNet. He is a member of the International Interfaith Center's Advisory Committee.
2:00 PM-3:00 PM IN COMMERCE 4.15 Business and Spirituality: Soul at Work Ms. Elna Trautmann
What does it mean to take my soul to work? Apart from my physical, mental and emotional presence at work, is there place for the spiritual me at work? This workshop explores the possible implications of moving beyond the information age's emphasis on knowledge and emotional intelligence to the Fourth Wave's implications of finding meaning at work and living purposefully. It addresses aspects of spirituality integral to one's work and life. It also focuses on possible ways of bringing
the heart back into business.
Elna Trautmann is an Organisation Psychologist with extensive organisation development experience in the private, non-governmental and governmental sectors with a focus on holistic and systematic organisational change management and transformation. Her current consulting focuses on business and spirituality; using ritual and ceremony to create opportunities for personal growth and bringing the heart back into business.
2:00 PM-4:00 PM IN THEATER 2
Cooperation for a Just and Peaceful World: Muslim and Buddhist Relations in the World Today
Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf; Professor Chandra Muzaffar; Chaiwat Satha-Anand; Uthai Dulyakasem; Dr. Achahn Phangcham; Dr. Rahul Deepankar, M.D.; Prof. Muddathir Abdel Rahem; Ven. Samahito Bhikkhu
The religious encounter between Islam and Buddhism is as old as the coming of Islam to Southeast Asia i.e. about 13 centuries. Dr. Yusuf will trace the religious encounters for interreligious dialogue and relations from the middle of the 7th Century. A panel will give Muslims and Buddhists the opportunity to reflect and comment upon the current state of understanding between their religions and how they can improve upon it. The goal of the seminar is to contribute to the spiritual, social, and moral development of this inter-religious relationship in a variety of positive ways.
Dr. Yusuf graduated from Temple University Philadelphia and he has taught at a number of American and Thai Universities. He is currently teaching at Prince of Sonkra University in Thailand and actively involved in interfaith dialogues..
Prof. Chandra Muzaffar, a political scientist, graduated from the University of Singapore and written extensively on human rights issues Currently he heads a human rights NGO in Malaysia known as the International Movement for a Just World, its head office in Kuala Lumpur.
Dr. Chaiwat Satha-Anand, teaches Political Science at Thammasat University Bangkok, Thailand. He is also a human rights activist.