Course Leader:  C arolyn Merry

Course Date:  Saturday 17 October

Course Options:  Full Price   -   £70.00  Early Bird £65.00  (EB  Deadline:17/09/26 )

Course Timings:    9:30am for 10am - 4pm

Course Code:  D2226

Course Information:

In a time of increasing polarisation and conflict, the ability to live well with our differences is needed more and more. Join us for a quiet day focused on the theme of living well with difference through guided reflections, group and individual reflective exercises, all whilst enjoying the calm and beauty of The Ammerdown Centre, prayers in our beautiful chapel, and walks in grounds and neighbouring forest.

Course Leader Information:

Carolyn  became the Leader of The Ammerdown Centre in 2025 from being Director of Place for Hope. She has been fascinated about the concept of peace since childhood and spent over 25 years working in the humanitarian, international development and peacebuilding sectors around the world, often in places of war, extreme poverty, repressive discrimination and exclusion of those most vulnerable. Her passion for nonviolence and peacemaking in its most holistic sense, is deeply rooted in her Christian faith and experiences around the world living and working beside people with different faiths, cultures, beliefs, worldviews and life experiences. Carolyn has qualifications in International Development, Human Rights Law & Advocacy and Conflict Transformation, and is an accredited mediator. Although Carolyn grew up in Australia, she settled back in her native UK in 2014 to focus on nurturing spaces for peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. Carolyn loves the 4 different seasons here (& really loves snow), cycling, and time spent with God and nature on long daily walks with her dog, Pace (Italian for peace).