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Following strong Expressions of Interest received A unique and pivotal element of this Conference will 13 in the last months of 2012, I now invite you to be the Plenary Session facilitated by Susan Pascoe, complete the Registration Form to secure your place designed to provide a forum for delegates to share at the Presentation Schools Staff Conference to be practical ideas, needs, resources and organisational held at the Grand Chancellor Hotel, Hobart, from suggestions to help the fashioning of a contemporary 31 July to 2 August 2013. Please note the discounts Presentation Charism in and between our schools into available for Early Bird Registration as well as that the future. for two or more delegates from the one school. The Conference Committee looks forward to The theme of the Conference – Treasuring Our welcoming you to Hobart in late July for this important Presentation Past: Fashioning A Presentation milestone in the story of our schools founded by the Future – has certainly captured the imagination Presentation Sisters and for the opportunity to enjoy and interest of staff in schools, colleges and collegiality in beautiful Hobart and its surrounds. education offi ces across Australia. Discerning what a Presentation future ought to look like for the 115 We look forward to warmly welcoming you in Hobart. primary schools and 25 colleges that can trace their origins to the Presentation Sisters is a key challenge in 2013 going forward. The topic areas of the Keynote Speakers and the Workshops listed in this brochure seek to provide a strong stimulus for Tom Dorey the conversations, collaborations and imaginings Chair, Conference Organising Committee Principal, of delegates as they gather together to discern and St Mary’s College, Hobart fashion a contemporary Presentation Charism.

Delegates will have the opportunity to visit the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) or historic Richmond. In line with the theme of the Conference, MONA juxtaposes the past and present in the visual arts, while Richmond will allow delegates to soak up features of the colonial town so important in tracing and appreciating the history of the Presentation Sisters in Australia.

3 Engaging in Expansive Partnership Ecology and Learning: If You Keep a Green Branch in Sr Fatima Rodrigo PVBM, NGO Representative, Your Heart, The Singing Bird Will Come United Nations, International Presentation Association Dr. Trish Hindmarsh, Director, Catholic Education

Born in a Christian coastal village in the Southern tip of Dr. Trish Hindmarsh is Director of Catholic Education India, I have been part of the Presentation way of life Tasmania and works with the Sustainability Initiative of the

Presenters for the past 45 years. During these years, I have had Archdiocese of Hobart. Joining Friends of the Earth and the privilege and opportunity of ministering as a nurse; reading Rachael Carson’s The Silent Spring, as well as building basic Christian and interfaith communities working and studying with the Columban Fathers helped as a community organiser; engaging in the ministry politicise Trish and provide a basis in ecotheology. She of Catholic Health Association of India as one of its co - ordinated an adult education program, “Mission, co-ordinating team members; organising Presentation Justice, Peace and Ecology” for fi ve years based in Sydney people in the Indian Unit as one of the Justice Contacts and was invited to be part of the development of Catholic and representing International Presentation Association Earthcare Australia in 2001. Her Doctoral thesis is titled, at the United Nations. “Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Catholic School”.

Abstract: The experiences of the recently held Sixth Abstract: An ecology of learning links all knowledge and Assembly of the International Presentation Association understanding, empowering learners to make choices that ‘moved us to a shift in consciousness and to the respect and cherish creation. Through an understanding emergence of the direction statement’, that invites all of the eco-systems that make up our planet, learners can Presentation People, impelled by the radical gospel of understand how to relate positively to both the earth‘s Jesus and on fi re with the spirit of Nano, to consciously systems and to human systems. The Catholic school is choose to be drawn more deeply into the mystery founded upon a particular faithbased world view that can of God, the mystery of Oneness and the reality of inform and shape every aspect of the life of the school, people and earth made poor; energised by this evolving building an ecologically responsive and responsible consciousness to engage in expansive partnerships that learning community. Such a school shines a “lamp for the move us to personal and systemic transformation. feet” and a “light for the eyes” in the best educational tradition.

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The Exciting New Research Confi rming the Most Charism: Founding Imperative – Ongoing Challenge Ancient of Messages: Giving to Others Makes for Sr Majella Kelly, Congregation Leader, Tasmanian Meaningful Living and Improved Wellbeing Presentation Sisters 13 Dr Thomas Nielsen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Canberra, ACT Sister Majella Kelly’s Presentation connections began when, aged 12, she was enrolled at St Mary’s College Dr Thomas William Nielsen is an Associate Professor Hobart as a boarder for her secondary education. They at the University of Canberra, Australia. He was a continued since as teacher, Deputy Principal, REC and member of the 2009-10 National Values Education Principal in Presentation schools, as Society President, IPA Project Advisory Committee; he has also served on delegate and now as Congregation Leader in Tasmania. several of the Australian Government values and wellbeing education projects. Dr Nielsen has authored Abstract: We drop the word ‘charism’ into our a high number of high quality books, book chapters, conversations very easily – what do we really mean by it? articles and commissioned reports that have been What is the Presentation Charism? Is it merely an engaging refereed and acknowledged by his peers, and he has story, a ‘warm fuzzy’, an interesting historical artefact or a also received several teaching awards, including the lodestone and why do we keep talking about it? 2008 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Dr Nielsen advocates a OECurriculum of Giving, his research showing that giving and service to others increase wellbeing and resilience in students something much needed in a western world with high depression and suicide rates (see www.thomaswnielsen.net)

Abstract: By engaging with the latest research evidence Management of Cultural Change available and the perennial wisdom of spiritual traditions, Susan Pascoe AM: Commissioner, Australian Charities Dr Nielsen will in this talk, investigate why giving to and Not-for-profi ts Commission (ACNC) others seems to be the most healthy thing that we can do as humans, making us healthier, happier and even live Susan Pascoe AM is Commissioner of the Australian longer. It is an investigation that yields surprising results Charities and Not for Profi ts Commission (ACNC). in terms of how we may best live our lives as individuals Prior to this she was a Commissioner at the State – and which in turn has profound implications for how Services Authority in Victoria (2006-2011) focusing we raise and teach children and adolescents. Giving on regulatory reform. She served as one of three to others, it turns out, is one of the best predictors of Commissioners on the 2009 Victorian Bushfi res increasing not only communal and individual wellbeing in Royal Commission. Ms Pascoe’s earlier professional the classroom, but also academic diligence and success. background was in education where she served as President of the Australian College of Educators, CEO of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and Chief Executive of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria. She chaired the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, was a Patron for the Melbourne Parliament for the World’s Religions and served on the Board of Cabrini Health and the Senate of the Australian Catholic University. 5 Museum of Old and New Art

Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) opened in Hobart in January 2011. It houses a collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian mummies to some of the world’s most infamous and thought-provoking contemporary art. The building’s subterranean design and the owner’s unconventional and challenging curatorial approach make it a must-see for any visitor to Australia. MONA takes a different approach to interpretation: there are no labels or wall texts. Instead, visitors are given a touch-screen device, which is sensitive to their location in the museum – showing them works in their proximity. Called the ‘O’, it allows visitors to select the level of information they need and to vote for works they ‘hate’ or ‘love’. Given the conference theme, Treasuring Our Presentation Past: Fashioning a Presentation Future, refl ecting on the past and the ‘old’, and looking to the future and the ‘new’, MONA offers delegates time to consider the many aspects of the transition of the Presentation Sisters from their inception (Nano) to the present and future Charism in Presentation Schools. (MONA)

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Richmond is a picturesque little village about a 30-minute Now, you are invited to walk in the footsteps of this drive from Hobart. The drive itself is a pleasure, winding country’s fi rst Presentation women. At a prayer service along country roads lined by hawthorn hedges and on arrival, you can kneel on the same pews and sit in rolling fi elds. The landscape is dotted with old homesteads the same seats as they once did. In fact, it was in this and farms, as well as modern wineries. comely little church, in 1867, that the four from Ireland took part in the fi rst Reception to the 20 The township was part of the early settlement of Van Presentation Order in colonial Australia. You can step Diemen’s Land and was designed and settled very much into that little stone school and imagine yourself back in in the model of a typical English village. Fine old oak and a classroom of chalk and slates. Outside the school, you plane trees line the wide streets, where tiny workers’ cottages can look across the same rural vista as they once did jostle for space with proud Georgian sandstone mansions. and see a landscape dotted with cottages, blue smoke Richmond boasts the oldest in Australia curling up from chimney pots. The rustic graveyard at (St. John’s), and the oldest bridge in Australia, which your feet is deserving of your attention, its heartbreaking little lots an evocative reminder of the high death rate 13 spans a pretty section of the Coal River. Richmond’s history also has its dark side, with its links with the brutal amongst the colonial babies and children. Then, you convict past. The old Richmond Gaol and the Barracks can wander along the river, over the stone bridge and are vivid evidence and artefacts from this historic era. into the village which, architecturally, still resembles the scene once surveyed by the Sisters. For us, Richmond has a signifi cant place in the story of the Presentation Sisters in Tasmania and Australia. When After a wonderful ramble around the signifi cant spots that intrepid little band of nine women, led by the Bishop (and dipping into some delightful little shops!), you can of Tasmania’s sister, Mother Mary Xavier Murphy, return to the local Catholic school near the Church, arrived after their epic voyage over the rim of the world, for a sumptuous English morning tea. their school in Hobart was not yet ready to receive them. The walk in the footsteps of the original nine women is In fact, it was to be 18 months after their arrival in 1866, a must for anyone who wants to get to the heart of the fi rst Presentation Sisters on Australian shores, before our story in Australia!! they could open their school in Hobart in 1868. The Sisters were invited to reside at Richmond in the interim. There, they lived at Woodburn House and taught in a small school nearby. They worked with local adults and children, helping them prepare for the sacraments for which they had long hungered.

7 A1 A5 Standing in the Market Place Today – The Charism of How Can Catholics Systemically Respond to the Call for the Presentation Sisters Through the Eyes of Godly Play Ecological Conversion? Sr Margaret Henderson, Education Offi cer in RE, Sarah Menassa-Rose, Animator of Justice, Peace and the Tasmanian Catholic Education Offi ce Integrity of Creation for the Franciscan Friars, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. Godly Play - based on the work of Jerome Berryman is a tried and tested process for helping children (and adults) St Francis did not separate the spiritual world from to engage with God through a presentation of Scripture/ the material world. He viewed the earth and all within Liturgy/Sacred Stories using ‘fi gures and wondering.’ nature as God’s creation, as a place of incarnation. Francis sees humans as co-creators of God. The A2 / B2 Franciscan Friars (OFM) have begun a journey Applying the Giving Curriculum for Improved Student toward ecological conversion with the help of Catholic and Staff Wellbeing Earthcare Australia and CarbonSystems Australia. Dr Thomas William Nielsen, Associate Professor, This workshop will outline a possible pathway of best Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Maths, practice in achieving ecological sustainability for the Canberra, ACT. , their Houses, Churches and Schools. Participants will see how this long term approach, The fact that generosity and pro-social behaviour are inspired by Catholic teachings, values and beliefs, is strongly associated with not only wellbeing but also aimed at developing, implementing and monitoring the academic success, highlights that many governments processes needed to facilitate the development and around the world seem to be putting the cart in front achievement of ecological conversion and ecological of the horse by over-emphasizing quantitative testing sustainability in a community. of literacy and numeracy, thus inadvertently forcing teachers and schools to teach to the test, rather than B1 focus on what really matters. What really matters is Exploring Charism in the Primary School Context a whole-learner approach to creating individual and Elizabeth McDougall, Principal, St Cuthbert’s Catholic collective wellbeing, in which academic success - School, Joy Matar, Principal, St Brigid’s Catholic School however important this is - becomes a by-product of and Mary Turnock, Principal, Corpus Christi Catholic such an approach. Come and learn evidence-based School, Hobart. strategies for increasing your staff and students’ personal and social capabilities, which, it turns out, echo profound This workshop provides participants with an opportunity perennial wisdom, past and present. to investigate and share ideas about Presentation Charism as it is presented in the primary classroom. How A3 / B3 do we as teachers make Presentation tradition real to the Catholic Curriculum and Ecology students we teach? What are its points of contact with Dr. Trish Hindmarsh, Director, Catholic Education Tasmania our current curriculum documents? (Religious Education and Australian Curriculum). This workshop will aim to explore how a specifi cally Catholic context would cast a lens on how schools Please bring with you units of work, which would include would implement the Sustainability Priority to include a reference list of useful resources that have been ecological awareness and conversion. developed in your school, to share.

A4 / B4 B5 Every Day the Church Gives Birth to the Church Management of Cultural Change Associate Professor, Dr. Joe Fleming, Dean, Australian Susan Pascoe AM, Commissioner, Australian Charities Catholic University, Aquinas Campus, Ballarat and Not-for-profi ts Commission (ACNC) Bede once wrote that “Every day the Church gives birth to the Church”. In many ways the Most organisations including schools strive to have most dramatic period when the world saw the Church clearly articulated policies and procedures for Workshop Sessions Workshop giving birth to the Church was at Vatican II. progressing mission outcomes. Operating in the contemporary times of increasing complexity however, Catholic Schools are part of the mission of the Church, and requires that a healthy, responsive and proactive as such they are called to give birth to the Church every organisational culture provides a key foundation for day. Perhaps the greatest challenge facing schools in the progressing such outcomes. This workshop explores 21st Century is understanding, nurturing, and proclaiming the management dimensions of cultural change and the Church dimension of school education. It is in maintaining a change culture. The Conference theme responding to this challenge to give birth to the Church that is examined from the perspectives of management, the essential identity of the Catholic school is to be found. change and culture. Some of the key questions that will be explored in this session are: • What is the mission of a Catholic school within 21st Century culture? • What challenges do staff, students and families bring to the Catholic school in terms of its mission to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth? • How do Catholic schools proclaim, nurture and celebrate Christ and the reign of God and thereby give birth to the Church? • How do Catholic schools grow in Catholic identity? 8 Wednesday 31 July Thursday 1 August

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1.00pm 9.20am Keynote Address 3: Welcome to Country Ecology and Learning: If You Keep a Green Branch in Welcome Address Your Heart, The Singing Bird Will Come Dr. Trish Hindmarsh, Director, Catholic Education Tasmania Opening Liturgy 10.20am Morning Tea with Trade Exhibitors 1.45pm 10.50am Keynote Address 1: Workshops Session A Charism: Founding Imperative – Ongoing Challenge A1 Standing in the Market Place Today – The Charism of Sr Majella Kelly, Congregation Leader, the Presentation Sisters Through the Eyes of Godly Play Tasmanian Presentation Sisters Sr Margaret Henderson RSM, Education Offi cer R.E. 2.45pm Tasmanian Catholic Education Offi ce, Hobart Afternoon tea A2 Applying the Giving Curriculum for Improved Student and Staff Wellbeing 3.15pm Dr Thomas William Nielsen, Associate Professor, Keynote Address 2: Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Engaging in Expansive Partnership Maths, Canberra, ACT Sr Fatima Rodrigo PVBM, NGO Representative, A3 Catholic Curriculum and Ecology United Nations, International Presentation Association Dr. Trish Hindmarsh, Director, Catholic Education Tasmania 4.15pm A4 Every Day the Church Gives Birth to the Church Associate Professor, Dr Joe Fleming, Dean, Australian Session concludes and free time to dress for the Catholic University, Aquinas Campus, Ballarat Welcome Reception A5 How Can Catholics Systemically Respond to the 5.30pm Call for Ecological Conversion? Sarah Menassa-Rose, Animator of Justice, Peace Welcome Reception at Henry Jones Art Hotel 2013 Program and the Integrity of Creation for the Franciscan Friars, 7.30pm Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia Free Evening 12.00pm Lunch with Trade Exhibitors 1.00pm Tour of MONA or Richmond

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9.20am 1.00pm Keynote Address 4: Fashioning the New, Facilitated Session The Exciting New Research Confi rming the Most Susan Pascoe AM, Commissioner, Australian Charities Ancient of Messages: Giving to Others Makes for and Not-for-profi ts Commission (ACNC) Meaningful Living and Improved Wellbeing Dr Thomas William Nielsen, Associate Professor, 3.00pm Faculty of Education, University of Canberra, ACT Afternoon tea 10.20am Morning tea with Trade Exhibitors 3.30pm Free time 10.50am Workshop Session B 4.45pm B1 Exploring Charism in the Primary School Context Buses depart from Hotel Grand Chancellor Elizabeth McDougall, Principal, St Cuthbert’s Catholic School, Joy Matar, Principal, St Brigid’s 5.00pm Catholic School and Mary Turnock, Principal, Conference Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral led by the Corpus Christi Catholic School, Hobart Archbishop of Hobart

B2 Applying the Giving Curriculum for Improved 6.15pm Student and Staff Wellbeing Pre - dinner drinks at Hotel Grand Chancellor Dr Thomas William Nielsen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and 7.00pm Maths, Canberra, ACT Conference Dinner at Hotel Grand Chancellor B3 Catholic Curriculum and Ecology Dr. Trish Hindmarsh, Director, Catholic Education 10.30pm Tasmania Evening concludes B4 Every Day the Church Gives Birth to the Church Associate Professor, Dr Joe Fleming, Dean, Australian Catholic University, Aquinas Campus, Ballarat B5 Management of Cultural Change Susan Pascoe AM, Commissioner, Australian Charities and Not-for-profi ts Commission (ACNC)

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