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Reflective, action-based research -
Participants with leadership potential/roles in communities embark on journey of deep dialogue -
Uncovers the role of faith in cultivating positive relationships between people, and addressing divisions caused by faith -
Accredited and non-accredited training -
Group storytelling out of which relationships are built with the ‘same’ and the ‘other’ -
Spread the learning and deepened relationships from the core group process within participants’ local areas -
Single-identity programme, occurring as part of a parallel process across an interface/generation/locality/national identity divide -
Leading Ladies builds the capacity of women to step into their own leadership at their own level
Our Programmes
Pilgrim Trail
LOCAL INTERFACE INTERGROUP
“Landscape of our lives”- various life moments, traditions, love, etc.
Pilgrim Trail is a storytelling project whereby an intercommunity group meets on a weekly basis to explore together different stages and elements of their lives through personal narrative. Using emblems that represent individual and community identity, participants explore what has given personal and communal meaning to their individual groups.
Postcards are written each night to tell the story of that journey from the day.
Artists record the session, allow participants to see how someone else heard the session. These are exhibited to celebrate and to allow outsiders to experience journey; and to instigate conversations
The emphasis of this process is not only on a personal learning level, but expands this to a group learning exercise where issues of belonging are addressed.
It is a form of gentle, group storytelling out of which relationships are built with the ‘same’ and the ‘other’, enabling participants to return their own communities with a greater understanding of their own personal and community journey as well as that of the other community.
Contact: Susan McEwen (programme lead)
