This 5-session online course explores some ways we can expand creation care beyond committee actions, material stewardship, and personal life adjustments, onto a more integrated expression of whole church life. How might faith communities more fully embody an inclusion of all creation in their lives of faith, worship, and witness? Students will be expected to …
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Building on Abundance in Indigenous Communities
Applications for this course are open to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit participants. Click here for downloadable PDF Click here to apply This course is online. You will need reliable internet access (high speed is recommended). This seven-week course explores building Indigenous communities from an abundance-based approach, starting with the foundation of gifts, skills …
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Decolonizing our churches, re-weaving our lives
Decolonization, the role and responsibility of our various churches, working toward truth, reconciliation, right relations, justice, healing Part conference, part seminar, our gathering is built on our desire to have a conversation together about moving forward in a decolonizing mode towards truth, reconciliation, right relationships, justice, and healing. We begin with ritual, a tipi teaching, …
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Eyes to See: Engaging Faith Communities in Poverty Dialogue and Action
Are you a church leader interested in engaging your congregation in actions to address poverty? Join Shaun Groves and Compassion Canada in this two-day workshop to build knowledge and skill to lead conversations and initiatives about poverty in your community. Based on the book Eyes to See by Compassion Canada. This workshop will be offered …
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Creative Justice: a conference on disability and the Church
Creative Justice is the theme of the fourth conference run by A Deeper Communion, a network that connects Canadian ministry leaders, practitioners, and academics at the intersection of disability and theology. How do we influence our churches and organizations to nurture adaptive communities that work for the just consideration of all in society? This season …
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Canadian School of Peacebuilding 2023
Every year Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), an institute of Canadian Mennonite University, invites the peacebuilders of the world to gather in Winnipeg, Canada, for a selection of courses in June. Come take a course or two for professional and personal development or for academic credit. In 2023 we will be offering most courses in-person, …
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Healing Haunted Histories: Decolonizing from the Inside Out
Instructors: Elaine Enns and Ched Myers Syllabus – PCTS/BTS/INDS-3950Syllabus – PCD/BTS-5190 Through bible studies, social analysis, communal narratives and historical literacy, this course will tackle the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent, which inhabit every intersection of settler and Indigenous worlds past and present. We will explore the places, peoples and spirits …
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Indigenous Cultural Safety: Working authentically across difference*
Instructor: Harley Eagle Syllabus – SOC/IND/PCTS-3950Syllabus – PCD-5190 Originating in the medical and health services field by Māori Indigenous Health care professionals over 30 years ago, Cultural Safety and an emergent secondary concept, Cultural Humility have since spread to many areas of the globe where Indigenous Peoples still maintain connections to their lands. The concept …
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The Home as Grounds for Radical Economics
Offered through the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP). Instructor: Katie Kish Syllabus – PCTS/POLS/BUS-3950Syllabus – PCD-5790 Online course only. Participants who will be in Winnipeg while taking this course are encouraged to come to campus to zoom in and meet other local participants during the coffee breaks and lunch. This course explores how the historical progression …
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Poverty and Human Rights: Theory, Theology and Practice
This course will provide a sound understanding of poverty from a human rights perspective. The course will focus on the role of international human rights law in addressing the structural causes of poverty and how a human rights framework fits within a Judeo-Christian framework. A theological framework and critique of the human rights approach will …
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