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Faithful Conversations

Faithful Conversations
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21 Aug 2027 

Course Leader:  Carolyn Merry & Guests

Course Date:  Saturday 21 August

Course Options:  Full Price - £70 Early Bird - £66

Course Timings:  9:30am for 10:00am-4:00pm

Course Code:  D2927

Course Information:  Faithful Conversations is a new space for people of all faiths & beliefs to gather & grapple with some of the most urgent issues of our day. With input from various guests with speciality in the particular topic, participants will have a chance to better understand the complexity of the subject & have opportunity for individual reflection & small group discussion, drawing on their own faith & belief traditions as well as life experience.

With increasing polarisation, including toxic polarisation around the world, the need for community has become critical. Join us in this third of our Faithful Conversations series as we explore how polarisation & its toxic effects can divide weak communities but also how genuine community can overcome polarisation & enable individuals & groups to hold space for conversations on polarising topics.

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).
 

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