Course Leader:  Rev Narinder Tegally and Carolyn 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:

Narinder was born in the Punjab, India as a Sikh. She became a Christian in her 20's. Her husband converted from Islam to Christianity, and they have three grown up daughters and three grandchildren. Before her Ordination in the Anglican Church, Narinder was a Registered Nurse working in Palliative Care and Mental Health. She is a qualified Psychodynamic Counsellor and Intercultural Psychotherapist, Counselling Supervisor and Spiritual Director.

God’s calling as a priest has led Narinder to serve in parishes in St Albans, Beaconsfield and in Bath & Wells Diocese.     Currently, she is the Lead Chaplain of Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH), Staff Governor and as part of my role Narinder sits on various groups such as the Ethics Group, End of Life Steering Group, Health and Wellbeing Group, Equality and Diversity Group representing the UKME staff, patients and their families and leading Reflective Practice Groups for colleagues at the RUH.

Narinder is an Assistant Diocesan Director of Ordinands, Bishops Panel Adviser (BAP) and the UKME Officer / Champion addressing Racism and Injustices within the church. She is a member of the Steering Group at Wells Cathedral which has oversight to help shape the Cathedral’s approach to the reinterpretation of its monuments with connections to Transatlantic Slavery and a part of the Diocese Lament to Action Group. Narinder currently serves on the Bishop’s Council as well as the Diocesan Synod. She leads retreats, quite days, diversity and bereavement training. 

Narinder is a member of the National Minority Ethnic Vocations Advisory Group working alongside the National Minority Ethnic Vocations Officer Regionally and Nationally. She has recently been appointed as the Interfaith Advisor for Bath & Wells Dioceses. 

For Narinder, it is an enormous privilege to serve God and His people. His faithfulness and steadfast love is key to her calling.   In March 2022, Narinder was invited and installed as Prebendary of Wells Cathedral which was an honour to receive.

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).