Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

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

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PROGRAM Friday, December 4, 2009
2:30-4:00pm ENGAGEMENT SESSION
Eppinger graduated from William Jewell College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. He was a missionary in Japan and the pastor of four different American Baptist churches, NV Shamasundar has been an active board member of the Arizona Interfaith Movement for many years Gurukirn Kaur Khalsa has been an ordained Sikh minister since 1974. She is also an artist and a poet. She wrote the book Pure Longing Fulfilled', which combines poetry and art in praise of One God. She is a past chair of the International Khalsa Council. Gurukirn Kaur and her family attend Gurdwara Sahib Guru Nanak Dwara in Phoenix, Arizona She has been an active Arizona Interfaith Movement board member for many years John Giles has been an Arizona Interfaith Movement board member for many years and a representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Rev Dr Mitzi Lynton is the Congregant Care Minister and Chair of the Global Peace in Action Ministry at Creative Living Fellowship in Phoenix, Arizona, a co-leader of the Arizona Department of Peace campaign. She serves on the board of the Arizona Interfaith Movement. She is a co-author of a Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion and also of
Voices of Faith, a book written by 12 different faith leaders. Rev Kyra Baehr has been a Unity Representative and Vice President on the Arizona Interfaith Movement Board for many years.
Kristen Hobby lives in Melbourne and works as a spiritual director and retreat leader. She recently sell published her first book titled 'Nurturing a Gentle Heart -- Exploring Spirituality with Pre-Schoolers. She has a passion for social justice and is a member of the Victorian Council of Churches Act for Peace Commission and a member of the formation team that trains Prayer Guides at Kilbride Spirituality Centre as part of the Week af Guided Prayer program. Chi Kwang is a Zen Buddhist who was born and raised in Perth. She spent fifteen years in a Zen Monastery in Korea, learning the chants and discipline of being a Buddhist nun. She now has her own monastery at King Lake Victoria). Melanie Landau is a lecturer at Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. She is currently completing her PhD on a feminist analysis of traditional Jewish marriage. She has studied and taught Jewish texts in Australia, Israel and the US. She has diverse interests including facilitating personal transformation and group processes as well as creating community across difference through learning, dialogue and ritual Bernadette Miles BTheol, GDAS (Organisational Dynamics! is director of the Campion Centre of Ignatian Spirituality in Kew. Victoria. She trained in spiritual direction after twenty years in business management and database consulting. Bernadette is married with four boys and is currently in her final year of a Masters in Applied Science Organisational Dynamicsl. Kava Schafer, MDiv, MA in Holistic Spirituality, certificate in spiritual direction, has worked as a hospice and bone marrow transplant chaplain for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for nine years. She holds a certificate from Upaya Zen Center's "Being with Dying Program in contemplative Buddhist practice and is a certified Reiki Master Openness to contemplative spiritual practices across traditions characterises her interspiritual direction practice and her work as a chaplain. Lynette Dungan is a Minister of the Word and Sacrament within the Uniting Church in Australia. She received her formation as a spiritual director in the Siloam program at 'Heart of Life' in 1997. She is a spiritual director and a supervisor to people in ministry placements and at Wellspring. Lynette is part of the Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Direction and has been a member of Spiritual Directors International since 2002 Peter Bentley is the director of the WellSpring Centre in Ashburton, Victoria. He is a retreat leader and spiritual director with a special interest in Art, Australian spirituality, and the Enneagram.
Spiritual Companionship: Listening with a Grateful Heart Liz Ellmann Kristen Hobby Venerable Chi Kwang Sunim Melanie Landau Bernadette Miles Kava Schafer Lynette Dungan Peter Bentley Room 216 Interactive Workshop Leb Shomea in Hebrew means 'listening heart'. Come learn how the contemplative ministry and service of spiritual companionship, also known as spiritual direction or spiritual guidance, helps people of many spiritual traditions build respect for self, for others, and for God's sacred creation by listening with the heart. A multifaith panel of spiritual companions will share how to cultivate gratefulness through words, silence and sacred movement. Not only will the panel share the history and meaning of the contemplative ministry of spiritual companionship across religious traditions, but they will offer an opportunity to interact and to practise listening with a grateful heart. Together we will explore the role of compassionate listening in cultivating hearts of gratefulness. Liz Budd Ellmann, MDiv, serves as executive director of Spiritual Directors International Iwww.sdiworld.org), a multitaith global learning community. For twenty years, Spiritual Directors International has supported the ministry and service of spiritual direction or companionship through publications, educational contemplative programming, and outreach. More than six thousand members in fifty-three countries tend the holy around the world and across traditions, by offering compassion ate listening that encourages peace, justice, and the integrity of creation.
There are No Back Row Seats in The Hoop of Life Kevin Locke Room 217 Artistic Performance Through the medium of the ancient Native American Hoop Dance, Kevin Locke presents a worldview that includes all cultures and all peoples. Lakota mystic Black Elk called this worldview the 'Great Hoop of Life'. Through words, music, and dance, this presentation will convey Kevin's own voice and the voice of his ancestors, who were stewards of the earth and a people committed to living with the land. This presentation will also emphasize the voice of the marginalized peoples. Historically, these peoples have created sustainable life systems, and knowledge traditions still exist within indigenous beliefs that can enhance our current efforts to create a sustainable world. Teaching through the domain of the arts, Kevin offers a program that will appeal to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners by generating an experience that creates an awareness of our shared humanity.
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