Guildford Diocesan Summer School 6 – 24 July 2015

Explore the biblical vision of God’s gift of freedom on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.PROOF Adrian Leak FINDING FREEDOM FREEDOM: REALITY OR DREAM? Magna Carta has been much in the Today, women and men near The Liberty trail from Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights news during this, its 800th anniversary and far, cry out for freedom from year - and Runnymede is in the oppression, poverty, addiction, Monday 6 July Adrian will trace the developing concepts of freedom Diocese. Magna Carta contained key distraction and self-absorption. How can 7.30pm – 9.30pm and human rights, from Magna Carta to the Universal clauses concerning liberty and the ideas the good news of Jesus Christ help us to Declaration of Human Rights (1948). He will explore the Venue: enshrined within it have their roots find true freedom in our contemporary issues of licence and restraint, and examine the principle of human rights vis-à-vis the Gospel precepts of duty to deep in the biblical vision of God’s gift world? This is an excellent opportunity Stag Hill, Guildford God and Neighbour. of freedom. Its legacy as a ‘foundation for us to think about our ethical, social GU2 7YP of freedom’ has transcended barriers of and missional engagement with the world There will be an opportunity to view the Cathedral’s culture and language, shaping democratic as disciples and citizens. Course code: 01/15 Magna Carta interpretation project before this session. and judicial systems across the world. To FREE Revd Adrian Leak is now retired from stipendiary ministry mark the anniversary, there will be a major and is an honorary assistant priest at Holy Trinity interpretation project at the Cathedral. Church, Bramley. He is a freelance writer and a regular Summer School 2015 will explore the contributor to the Church Times. themes of freedom and service with a wide range of different speakers and topics. In John’s Gospel, Jesus Christ promises that in him we will know the FILM NIGHT: truth that will set us free. St Paul calls us OPEN BETHLEHEM to exercise freedom in service to God and to others. Tuesday 7 July Film director Leila Sansour returns to Bethlehem to make a 7.45pm – 9.45pm film about her home town, soon to be encircled by a wall, and is persuaded to stay to start a campaign to save the Venue: city. The highly acclaimed ‘Open Bethlehem’ is a story of Discipleship is a life-wide and life-long commitment St Philip and St James to follow Jesus Christ. We pattern our approach a homecoming to the world’s most famous little town around the four themes of Rooted, Working, Kings Road which reveals a city of astonishing beauty, caught up in Responsible and Sharing Faith. We have colour-coded Fleet political strife. the various sessions available during this year’s GU51 3AR Summer School to help you find your way around the Course code: 02/15 programme. To find out more about the four themes, go to our page on the Diocesan website. Fee: £10 Revd Matt Prior is the Diocesan Adult Discipleship and Development Adviser, within the Discipleship, Vocation and MinistryPROOF Team. Tel: 01483 790309 PROOF

MOOR PARK COLLEGE Merrow TRUST LIMITED Parish

Summer School 2015 has been organised by the Financial Support Moor Park College Trust

2 3 Cathy Blair Emily Walker LIFE IN ALL ITS FULLNESS – SINGING OUR FREEDOM SONG AS ADULTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER Friday 10 July A Big Sing exploring the themes of justice, peace and Wednesday 8 July Jesus came to bring ‘Life in all its fullness’. Often we divide 7.30pm – 9.45pm freedom through songs from the church around the world. Come and join the song of those who have sung 7.45pm – 9.45pm adults and children to discover this in age-appropriate Venue: groups. Come and explore afresh what the Good Shepherd for freedom throughout the ages, across traditions and Venue: says in John 10 and see how as churches we might find St Columba’s House transcending borders. All are welcome. Education Centre Maybury Hill faith, grow in faith and bring others to faith as adults and Emily Walker is a church and community musician. Guildford Cathedral children together. Woking GU22 8AB She has worked as the Musician for the Iona Community Stag Hill, Guildford in Iona Abbey and at Launde Abbey. Emily leads singing GU2 7UP Revd Cathy Blair is the Vicar of St Paul’s, Woking, a role which she shares with her husband, and is also the Rural Course code: 05/15 workshops across the UK and has also taken on the Course code: 03/15 Dean of Woking. St Paul’s has a thriving ‘Messy Church’. role as the Liturgist and musician for the 2015 Retreat Fee: £12 Association Conference. Fee: £10

Rachel Guilford and Nicola Bassani FREEDOM FROM ISOLATION – Bishop OPEN DOORS! THE OLDER I GET, THE LESS I KNOW Monday 13 July Loneliness can be incredibly isolating and for many older Thursday 9 July As we go through life our faith evolves and changes. What 10am – 12.30pm and vulnerable people, the subject of loneliness is a growing are the certainties of faith? Are there any? Should changes problem. In our own roles within our communities – are we 7.45pm – 9.45pm Venue: in our society influence the way we think and believe? breaking down barriers to isolation or helping build them? The Parish Centre Venue: Come and share in this exploration with Bishop Ian of In this interactive workshop we will have open discussions 222 Epsom Road Education Centre where our faith is going. around this topic and discuss solutions to help overcome Guildford Cathedral Merrow, Guildford isolation in our churches and communities. There will be Rt Revd Ian Brackley has been the Stag Hill, Guildford GU4 7AA examples of current case studies taken from projects run since 1996. He is retiring in September 2015. GU2 7UP PROOF Course code: 06/15 PROOFby the Communities Engagement Team. Course code: 04/15 Fee: £10 Rachel Guilford is co-ordinator of the Care Angels Befriending Project, working in the Diocesan Communities Engagement Fee: £10 Team. Nicola Bassani is a Guildford Community Connector.

4 5 Chris Grocock Lynne Curnow FREE WILL – THE ART OF FREEDOM HOW FREE AND FREE TO DO WHAT? Tuesday 14 July G.F. Watts, (1817-1904) Monday 13 July What limits (if any?) are there on human freedom? This 1.30pm – 4pm described by Ruskin as England’s Michelangelo, 2pm – 4.30pm session aims to explore the broad range of approaches Venue: to this topic, considering spiritual, genetic and cultural believed in freedom of Venue: approaches, and aims to illuminate the range of issues Watts Gallery thought and art for all. The Parish Centre and attitudes we are likely to encounter as we discuss Down Lane As a powerful philosophy, 222 Epsom Road what it is to be fully human with those inside and outside Compton, Guildford he referred often to Merrow, Guildford the church. GU3 1DQ 1 Corinthians 13 as “containing everything”. GU4 7AA Chris Grocock is a Licensed Lay Minister based at St Luke’s Course code: 09/15 Freedom and liberality are recurring themes in his Course code: 07/15 Grayshott and works as Head of Classics at Bedales Fee: £21.50 School; he has also taught Philosophy and Ethics/RE at texts. This is an unmissable Fee: £10 Wispers School in Haslemere. Limited to 20 people opportunity to engage with his social realist paintings and view pioneering works of this Victorian artist. An hour gallery tour, then an hour in the Chapel, John McCabe then tea and cake. WORK AS FREEDOM Lynne Curnow has been attached to Watts Gallery for ten years taking tours of the collection and giving illustrated Monday 13 July This evening session will be in two parts: first, looking at talks. She studied Art History and English at Leicester 7.45pm – 9.45pm work as un-freedom in the Nazi era and asking: in what University in the 1970s. ways is today’s rhetoric of work different from its reality? Venue: And second, looking at alternative work thinking in the Education Centre Nazi era – freedom, responsibility and integrity – and Guildford Cathedral starting to ask: how can Bonhoeffer’s model of resistance Phil Simpson and Kauser Akhtar Stag Hill, Guildford help us in 2015? GU2 7UP FREEDOM TO SHARE OUR FAITH John McCabe is the Vicar of St Mary’s, Byfleet. Over Course code: 08/15 recent months, John has been writing up a thesis looking Tuesday 14 July Both Christianity and Islam are missionary faiths. In this at Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology of work. 7.45pm – 9.45pm interactive session, Phil Simpson and Kauser Akhtar will Fee: £10 engage from a Christian and a Muslim perspective with the Venue: challenges of sharing faith today. The session will involve Education Centre a ‘scriptural reasoning’ exercise through the reading of Guildford Cathedral Qur’anic and Biblical missionary texts. Come prepared to Stag Hill, Guildford listen, to learn and to share. Summer School is open to all GU2 7UP Revd Phil Simpson worked with the Church Mission Society If you haven’t been before, come Course code: 10/15 for 25 years in Pakistan and then as Asia Regional Director. He is now Facilitator with Mahabba UK, helping ordinary and be inspired.PROOF You can now book Fee: £10 PROOFChristians engage with their Muslim neighbours. online. See the back page for details. Kauser Akhtar is Surrey Faith Links Adviser in Guildford Diocese and married to the Imam at the Shah Jahan mosque in Woking.

6 7 Des Williamson and Suzette Jones Guildford Diocesan LIVING WITH ‘THE BLACK DOG OF DEPRESSION’ Summer School Wednesday 15 July What is the day-to-day reality of living with depression? 10am – 12.30pm What does it feel like to be depressed? What does it feel like for those around? In this frank and informative 6 – 24 July 2015 Venue: session, Des and Suzette will explore how to live with The Parish Centre depression without being dominated by it – like ‘living 222 Epsom Road with a black dog’ which only barks from time to time. Merrow, Guildford GU4 7AA Revd Des Williamson is a Minister at St Mark’s, Tattenham Corner (Anglican/Methodist) and is married Course code: 11/15 with four grown up children. Fee: £10 Suzette Jones is the Open to All / Health and Wellbeing Adviser in the Diocesan Communities Engagement Team.

Russell Dewhurst THE SHALL BE FREE

Wednesday 15 July The first clause of Magna Carta, guaranteeing the liberty 2pm – 4.30pm of the Church of England – is statute law still in force today. But the fact of establishment can often seem to Venue: restrict, rather than guarantee, the church’s freedom. The Parish Centre A brief historical introduction will set the scene for a 222 Epsom Road discussion around establishment today. We will consider Merrow, Guildford the freedom of the church to set its own rules and shape GU4 7AA its own mission; baptisms, marriages, and burials; church membership and discipline. Course code: 12/15 Revd Russell Dewhurst is Vicar of Ewell. Fee: £10 Booking Form PROOF PROOF

8 BOOKING FORM Diocesan Summer School To be completed and returned by Monday 22 June together with a cheque made payable to: 6 – 24 July 2015 Guildford Diocesan Board of Finance OR Online Bank Transfer payment submitted electronically to: Lloyds Bank, Account No: 00005383 Sort Code: 30-93-74 Confirmation of your booking will be made by post or email. quoting reference: LAY 1820 Courses may be cancelled if there is insufficient take-up but an alternative course or a refund will be offered. Please send cheque and booking form to: Caroline Lazenby, Summer School Administrator, Refunds cannot be given in any other circumstances. Diocesan House, Quarry Street, Guildford GU1 3XG.

Course code, date and Name and address Telephone and Fee course title Please print clearly email £ Course Code 01/15PROOF Mon 6 July FREEDOM, REALITY OR DREAM

Course Code 02/15 Tues 7 July FILM NIGHT: OPEN BETHLEHEM

Course Code 03/15 Wed 8 July LIFE IN ALL ITS FULLNESS – AS ADULTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER

Course Code 04/15 Thurs 9 July THE OLDER I GET, THE LESS I KNOW

Course Code 05/15 Fri 10 July SINGING OUR FREEDOM SONG

Course Code 06/15 Mon 13 July FREEDOM FROM ISOLATION – OPEN DOORS!

Course Code 07/15 Mon 13 July FREE WILL – HOW FREE AND FREE TO DO WHAT

Course Code 08/15 Mon 13 July WORK AS FREEDOM

Course Code 09/15 Tues 14 July THE ART OF FREEDOM

Course Code 10/15 Tues 14 July FREEDOM TO SHARE OUR FAITH

Course Code 11/15 Wed 15 July LIVING WITH ‘THE BLACK DOG OF DEPRESSION’ PROOF

Course Code 12/15 Wed 15 July THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SHALL BE FREE

Course Code 13/15 Wed 15 July LIVING IN FREEDOM

Course Code 14/15 Thurs 16 July FREE TO BE ME

Course Code 15/15 Thurs 16 July FREEDOM TO FLOURISH: HOLINESS, DISAGREEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING

Course Code 16/15 Fri 17 July THE FREEDOM OF MINDFULNESS

Booking Form continued overleaf... Course code, date and Name and address Telephone and Fee course title Please print clearly email £

Course Code 17/15 Fri 17 July FREE FROM ADDICTION

Course Code 18/15 Sat 18 July LIBERATION AND LEGACY TRANSFORMATION: HEALING WOUNDED CHURCHES

Course Code 19/15PROOF Mon 20 July LET MY PEOPLE GO!

Course Code 20/15 Tues 21 July PAINT YOUR HEART

Course Code 21/15 Wed 22 July IF GOD IS IN CHARGE, WHERE DO I FIT IN?

Course Code 22/15 Thurs 23 July FREE TO DO WHAT I WANT? PERSONAL AUTONOMY AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICS

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Data Protection Consent I agree to my personal details being held on the Guildford Diocesan database. I understand that this information will be used only by diocesan staff for administrative purposes and that the policy of the Diocesan Board of Finance is not to provide this information to third parties. LIVING INFREEDOM Alan andJaneHulme Limited to 24people Fee: £35 Course code: 14/15 GU4 7AA Merrow, Guildford 222 Epsom Road The Parish Centre Venue: 10am –4pm Thursday 16July FREE TO BEME Hazel Whitehead Fee: £10 Course code: 13/15 GU2 7UP Stag Hill,Guildford Guildford Cathedral Education Centre Venue: 7.45pm –9.45pm Wednesday 15July PROOFincluding materials Discipleship, Vocation andMinistry. Revd CanonDrHazel Whitehead isDiocesan Director for and adisciple. better relationships and enrich yourlife asahumanbeing ourselves better, understand others better and can lead to nothing more, nothingless–whichhelps usto understand quiet? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator isauseful tool – 7 day silent retreats andyou struggle withhalfanhourof annoy you withouteven Orwhy trying? they relish Ever wondered why some people seem to beableto on creatingAll-Ageworshipmaterials for churches. Development andEvangelism Team andJaneisfocussing for many years.Currently AlanisDirector oftheParish ordained ministers. They haveledchurches together Alan andJaneHulmeareamarriedcouple andboth us to live alife oftruefreedom. our lives butmore importantly lookat how Godcan help only explore theeffect the past can continue to have on hurt andsinto live infreedom now? Thisseminarwillnot we can beforgiven –buthow dowe move onfrom past Jesus’ sacrificeuponthecross means that through faith

9 Julie Gittoes Suzette Jones FREEDOM TO FLOURISH: HOLINESS, FREE FROM ADDICTION DISAGREEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING Friday 17 July What is addiction? What are we addicted to? How do we Thursday 16 July Archbishop Justin challenges us to live as an ‘untidy church’: 7.45pm – 9.45pm recognize addiction? Can we ever be free? From alcohol 7.45pm – 9.45pm learning to love those with whom we disagree and seeking to pornography, from gambling to shopping; addiction mutual flourishing. How does worship and scripture shape Venue: can affect us all. This thought-provoking workshop will Venue: and form us as a holy people? How does the call to Education Centre examine the social, emotional and financial implications Education Centre holiness foster generosity, trust and reconciliation in Guildford Cathedral associated with addiction. Guildford Cathedral the face of disagreement? How does it shape our moral Stag Hill, Guildford Suzette Jones is the Open to All / Health & Wellbeing Stag Hill, Guildford decision-making? GU2 7UP Adviser in the Diocesan Communities Engagement Team. GU2 7UP Revd Canon Dr Julie Gittoes is a Residentiary Canon of Course code: 17/15 Guildford Cathedral. Course code: 15/15 Fee: £10

Fee: £10

Russ Parker Suzette Jones LIBERATION AND LEGACY TRANSFORMATION: THE FREEDOM OF MINDFULNESS HEALING WOUNDED CHURCHES

Friday 17 July Mindfulness simply means Saturday 18 July Why does Jesus speak to churches? According to the 10am – 12.30pm paying attention to our 10am – 1pm book of Revelation he is conducting a health check on the experience in the present church’s life and mission. This seminar will explore a new Venue: moment, on purpose Venue: program called Healing Wounded Churches which builds The Parish Centre and with an attitude Education Centre upon the Jesus-audit to help restore the church to new life 222 Epsom Road of kindly acceptance. Guildford Cathedral and mission. Merrow, Guildford Used widely for stress Stag Hill, Guildford GU4 7AA reduction, can it help GU2 7UP Revd Dr Russ Parker was Director of Acorn Christian us to be free from the Healing Foundation from 1995 to 2013 and is now Course code: 16/15 stress of living in today’s Course code: 18/15 Acorn’s International Ambassador responsible for world? Can it really developing partnerships, listening and reconciliation Fee: £10 bring freedom to frantic Fee: £15 overseas. As a freelance educator, he travels extensively, lives? A ‘for anyone’ lecturing and teaching in listening, healing, forgiveness practical workshop on and reconciliation.

using Mindfulness stress Guildford Diocesan reduction in everyday life. Summer School 6 – 24 July 2015 Suzette Jones is the Be Calm by Sieger Koder Open to All / Health and IF YOU WOULD LIKE PROOFWellbeing Adviser in the MORE BOOKLETS...PROOF Diocesan Communities

Explore the biblical vision Engagement Team. of God’s gift of freedom on the 800th anniversary CALL 01483 790309 of Magna Carta.

10 11 Tutor: Julie Gittoes Mark Rudall OPEN AFTERNOON FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS PAINT YOUR HEART BY INVITATION ONLY Tuesday 21 July ‘Paint Your Heart’ emerged from a retreat when Mark Monday 20 July An opportunity for invited secondary school students to 7.45pm – 9.45pm Rudall, more writer than artist, took paints instead of pens. Painting Gospel themes each day gave him a new 1.30pm to 3pm explore the legacy of Magna Carta and its relevance for Venue: freedom, human rights and democracy today. freedom which he has shared with many since. Paints, Venue: Education Centre papers, brushes etc are provided as this is for everyone, Guildford Cathedral Guildford Cathedral but insights come from God and are fascinating. Stag Hill, Guildford Stag Hill, Guildford GU2 7UP Revd Mark Rudall is a former Communications Director of GU2 7YP the Diocese of Guildford. Course code: 20/15

Fee: £12 including materials Limited to 25 people

Bishop LET MY PEOPLE GO!

Monday 20 July The Exodus story – with its famous refrain ‘Let my people 7.45pm – 9.45pm go!’ – has proved an inspiration for liberation movements through the ages. Having written a Lent Book on the Venue: subject, Bishop Andrew will be exploring the Magna Carta Education Centre themes of freedom, values and society-building from these Guildford Cathedral ancient roots. Stag Hill, Guildford Rt Revd Andrew Watson is the . GU2 7UP He formerly served as . Course code: 19/15 Summer School is open to all Fee: £10 If you haven’t been before, come PROOF and be inspired.PROOF You can now book online. See the back page for details.

12 13 Phil Parker IF GOD IS IN CHARGE, WHERE DO I FIT IN? Want to go deeper?

Wednesday 22 July Have you ever wondered whether God gave Adam and You may be interested in these other events 7.45pm – 9.45pm Eve free will? Or what ‘free will’ even means? Have you and programmes from the Discipleship, ever wanted to know what the Bible means when it speaks Venue: about God choosing and predestining? Is that good news Vocation and Ministry Team. Education Centre or bad news for us? This session will hopefully untie a Guildford Cathedral topic Christians often get tied in knots about! Tent Week Roadshow 2015 Stag Hill, Guildford Tuesday 23 June, 7pm – 9.30pm at Willow Grange GU2 7UP Revd Phil Parker is the Vicar of St Andrews, Frimley Green and Mytchett. The whole team will be available to support discipleship, vocations and Course code: 21/15 spiritual growth in your context

Fee: £10 Leading Worship Training 2015 Wednesday evenings from 23 September until 25 November, 7.45pm – 9.45pm in Guildford

Philip Plyming Occasional Preachers’ Training 2015 FREE TO DO WHAT I WANT? Monday evenings from 5 October until 7 December, 7.30pm – 10pm PERSONAL AUTONOMY AND Diocesan Day on Prayer 2015 CONTEMPORARY ETHICS Saturday 21 November, 10am – 1pm at St Paul’s, Camberley Thursday 23 July What is our freedom for? Is it about freedom for the The Challenges of Prayer: Why pray when God knows it already? 7.45pm – 9.45pm individual – to make choices and decisions that work for Dr Jane Williams: Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Mellitus College. them? Or is there a bigger framework in which personal Venue: freedom might be worked out? For full details of all the above contact: Education Centre Using case studies from current developments in society, [email protected] or 01483 790320 Guildford Cathedral Philip Plyming explores how the Christian faith offers an Stag Hill, Guildford important corrective to the dominant narrative of personal GU2 7UP autonomy. The Guildford Local Ministry Programme trains Ordinands and Course code: 22/15 Revd Dr Philip Plyming is Vicar of Claygate, Rural Dean of Licensed Lay Ministers over three years of part-time study. Fee: £10 Emly and a Member of General Synod. Some modules are open to interested learners. For more information, contact: [email protected] or 01483 790351

“If you continue in my word, you are truly PROOF my disciples, and you PROOFwill know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8.32

14 15 HOW TO BOOK • OPTION 1: Go to our summer school page at www.cofeguildford.org.uk/life/lifelong-learning/summer-school Using the online booking facility, book the course(s) of your choice. You will receive an email requesting payment by online bank transfer and giving our bank details.

• OPTION 2: Complete the booking form which can be found on the centre pages of this booklet. You can also download the booklet and form from our summer school page. Send the form with your cheque made payable to Guildford Diocesan Board of Finance to the address below or make payment to the diocese by online bank transfer, using the bank details listed on the form, and then post the form to the address below.

Please make your booking and payment by Monday 22nd June so that courses can be confirmed with tutors or alternative sessions offered.

Courses may be cancelled if there is insufficient take-up, but an alternative course or a refund will be offered. Refunds will not be given in any other circumstances.

All venues are accessible for wheelchair users.

FURTHER INFORMATION For a larger print version please contact Caroline Lazenby, Summer School Administrator Email: [email protected] Post: Caroline Lazenby Diocesan Summer School Diocesan House Quarry Street Guildford GU1 3XGPROOF