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Day Crafting Apprentice Course course

Discover the way of Day Crafting in this transformative 6-week course. Learn to align daily practices with personal strengths and rhythms for a fulfilling, balanced life.

The good life is not a destination but a daily practice. The Day Crafting Apprentice Course introduces the practice and provides a new approach to enhancing daily life by focusing on the skilled use of time and energy. Over 6 weeks, participants will engage in an interactive, remote learning experience led by Bruce Stanley, the founder of Day Crafting.

This course is designed to shift the emphasis from long-term goals to immediate, practical behaviours and methods. It invites participants to reimagine their daily routine, not as a means to an end but as a fulfilling journey in itself. Supported by a series of workbooks, weekly practices, and theoretical insights, the course equips learners with tools and strategies to craft days that maximise productivity, resilience, inner balance, and wellbeing.

Ideal for those who yearn for a life crafted around their unique rhythms and preferences, this course transcends traditional personal development models. It is particularly suited for individuals seeking a more interconnected, creative approach to self-improvement and those desiring to influence their community positively.

By the end of the course, participants will have a deeper understanding of Day Crafting principles and practical experience in applying them to their daily lives.

About the Tutor
Bruce Stanley is a seasoned expert in the fields of innovation, design, and personal development. With a foundation in design, his career has evolved to encompass adult education, coaching, and product development, notably as the Innovation and Product Lead for HeartEdge.

A decade ago, he pioneered the Forest Church movement, merging his love for nature connection with spiritual growth. His current focus is on Day Crafting, a novel methodology he developed and detailed in five workbooks. This approach is being adopted across various sectors, including the NHS in the UK and international organizations.

Bruce, along with his wife Sara, resides in the Cambrian mountains of Mid Wales, where they cultivate a permaculture forest. His work is characterized by a deep commitment to fostering creative potential and holistic wellbeing in individuals and communities.

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Dates & Times

11 Dec 2024

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Course code

2524

Other Notes

This is an online course delivered by Zoom over six weeks, beginning 6th November 2024.

Tickets are set aside for Methodist Ministers.

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What our students say

PhD Research Programmes

Visual Artist Claire Reed

The complex and sometimes fractious relationship between contemporary art and religion has intrigued me throughout my art career, informing my direction as an artist. It has led me to work in sacred spaces with their immediate and wider communities, to study an MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College, and recently to become artist–researcher at Leo Baeck College of Jewish scholarship and learning.

My aim is to examine the extent to which this creative approach might generate fruitful inter-religious theological insights within a Jewish and Christian ministry training context.

Sarum College combines an open-minded embrace of the imagination and the arts with a supportive, questioning and diverse community. Crucially for me, the Sarum-Winchester PhD programme is one of the very few UK university programmes to offer a hybrid thesis in art and theology in which the creative process and resulting art output along with a written critical component are presented for examination.

This PhD research is a key part of my development as an artist engaged with theology and inter-religious dialogue.

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Stimulating and Challenging

What is Successful Ageing? led by James Woodward

I enjoyed the course immensely from beginning to end – the seamless interweaving of knowledge, ideas and research and the linking with belief and faith.

The content was stimulating, challenging, thought provoking and I was greatly appreciative of the contributions and questions from other participants, your considered and sensitive responses and integration with your presentations.

Thank you!

Netflix, Theology and Pastoral Practice

Peter Butchers on his MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture student experience

How do cultural tropes, like those found in Black Mirror, help bridge the gap between what academic theology espouses and what the everyday Christian believes? In his research as a student on the MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture, Peter Butchers explored platonic philosophy, digital theology and eschatology, and pastoral practice around death and dying.

Rewarding Sabbatical Stay

The Revd Greg Syler, is Rector of Ascension & St. George’s, Resurrection Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC USA, spent part of his ministry sabbatical at Sarum College in spring 2022.

His account of the experience begins: ‘I loved spending nearly three weeks of my ministry sabbatical at Sarum College earlier this year.

Not only did I rest, and rest well in the comfortable care of the Sarum College staff, I experienced very significant renewal and fresh insights.’

The Road Not Taken

Sarum Graduate Mike Truman

January 2022

Five years ago, I told my Warden of Readers that I would not be renewing my licence when it expired in 2019, as I thought my faith was becoming too unorthodox for a Church of England licensed lay minister. As someone who knew me well, she challenged me to actively explore what I did still believe. Thus started the journey that ended last August with the dissertation completing my MA in Theology Imagination and Culture (MATIC) at Sarum College.

Clergy Study Breaks

The opportunity for clergy to get away occasionally from their own context, to have an overnight stay in the beautiful setting of Sarum College and all that the Salisbury Cathedral Close offers is hugely valuable. All the clergy I have suggested who have spent 24hrs at Sarum College have benefit greatly from the experienced mentoring where they can talk, reflect, think, plan and pray.

The support and encouragement they receive is excellent and has a positive on their on going ministry. This is something the Diocese of Rochester encourages and supports financially in preparation for their clergy preparing for Extended Ministerial Development Leave (Sabbatical).

— Canon Christopher Dench, Diocese of Rochester Director of Formation and Ministry

Day Crafting Apprentice Course

Day Crafting Apprentice Course course