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
Praying with Lior
(Premier Film Series Selection)
Room 210
Film
Praying with Lior' challenges our beliefs about whom and how one speaks to God. The film follows Lior Liebling, a thirteen-year-old boy with Down's Syndrome nicknamed 'the little rebbe', for the four months that lead up to his Bar Mitzvah. The filmmaker brings to life a stirring story of how a community grapples with the particular gifts and handicaps of a special needs child, and how that child views meaning from his particular social location. A question and answer period will follow the film. The film was directed by Ilana Trachtman. Q&A to follow.
Amerta Movement: the Gardening of Mandala Salam
Suprapto Suryodarmo Room 212
Artistic Performance
The main intention of the Joged Amerta movement work is to develop a way to lessen the sense of identification in art happenings through movement. Hence, it is more than an approach to improvisation; Joged Amerta is a practice cultivating an attitude towards life. The practice of Joged Amerta originates from the idea of 'from the garden back to the garden'. Improvisation begins with everyday movement, such as resting, sitting, crawling and walking, with variations to find other potential that is not yet awakened. Then, one chooses a composition based on the context of the environment and the ever-changing happenings surrounding it. Some movements include 'Circle', bowing in praying or spiritual language: 'Oval, purification in circulation or nature language; and 'Square', discussion in unity or human language. The goal is to offer oneself for the garden towards diversity in unity.
Suprapto Suryodarmo founded his Padepokan Lemah Putih school in Mojosongo, Solo, Java in 1986. Since 1970, he has studied free movement, Vipassana and Javanese Sumarah meditation. He uses these practices in the nature, temple and human fields. For twenty years, Suprapto Suryodarmo has taught his Joged Amerta method and created ritual art in Indonesia, Europe, the US, Mexico, Australia, the Philippines, Japan and India. He is a founding member of Dharma Nature Time and Yayasan Dharma Samuan Tiga.
Faith in Action: How Faith-Based Organisations Care for People in Need
Jason Davies-Kildea
Steve Denenberg
Hyder Gulam
Room 214 Seminar
4:30-6:00pm OPEN SPACE
Social welfare services and community aid programs are being delivered by faith-based organisations around the world. This seminar draws upon recent research involving nearly fifty Christian, Jewish and Muslim services across the United States, the United Kingdom and Africa. It will include a discussion and slideshow presentation of Jason Davies-Kildea's recent Churchill Fellowship trip, visiting Christian, Jewish and Islamic services around the world. This program aims to promote greater appreciation of faith-based organisations unique methods of delivering vital services.
Captain Jason Davies-Kildea is a Salvation Army officer currently appointed as Social Program Secretary for the Melbourne Central Division. Jason has a Master's degree in Theology and is currently studying for a Master of Social Science (Policy and Human Services) degree. In 2007, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study faith-based social services internationally.
Steve Denenberg is an English-born, Israel-trained social worker. He moved to Sydney in 1986 and later established Plum Partnerships, providing low-cost fundraising and profile raising' for Israel and Australiabased nonprofit organisations. In 2008 he became Executive Director of the Union for Progressive Judaism (UPJ). Steve has a Bachelor of Social Work from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He received the Centenary Award for services to the Jewish community, the aged, young people and people with disabilities.
Hyder Gulam was born in Singapore and educated in Melbourne. He is a registered nurse, a qualified lawyer, an accredited mediator as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in Australia. He has post graduate qualifications in business/management, law and nursing. He has served as an officer with the Royal Australian Air Force, both in Australia and overseas. He has published in areas such as trans-cultural nursing, health law, criminal law and military law. Hyder has also worked in indigenous health, paediatric nursing, aged care, as well as emergency and trauma. Prior to accepting a role with Logie-Smith Lanyon Lawyers, Hyder worked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for one of the world's biggest law firms. Hyder practices mainly in the areas of Commercial & Corporate, Defence Procurement and Islamic Finance, Hyder is an Executive of the Islamic Council of Victoria, member of the Australian Red Cross - International Humanitarian Law committee, member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia (Vic), as well as co-founder of the Muslim Legal Network and the City Circle (2008 Revival)
12 Steps: A Complete,
Non-Denominational Spiritual Path
for the 21st Century
Doug Childers
Room 215
Interactive Workshop
The 12 Steps were originally designed to free alcoholics from their self-destructive addiction. They subsequently were applied to address a wide range of problematic and self-destructive human addictions and behaviors. But the
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