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MODEM Conference 2022: Uncharted Journeys

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About the MODEM Conference 2022: Uncharted Journeys course

As we chart our way through the pandemic many are seeking certainty and direction but are finding that the only certainty is uncertainty.

MODEM’s 2021 conference is an opportunity to explore, from a range of perspectives, our journey forward into the future.

The conference theme – ‘Uncharted Journeys’ – mirrors the title of Margaret Heffernan’s book, Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together (2020).

Heffernan’s other books include Willful Blindness and A Bigger Prize.

Margaret’s profile encompasses entrepreneur, chief executive, adviser to senior executives around the world, professor at the University of Bath, and writer for the Financial Times and Huff Post.

And… Margaret Heffernan will be joining us as keynote speaker as we also explore our own uncharted journeys and those of our other contributors. These include the Rt Revd Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy and Sarum College Principal James Woodward who will present a session on Monday 21 November entitled: A Leader is a Dealer in Hope? Holding, Learning and Surviving the Pandemic at Sarum.

The hallmark of this conference is hearing from inspirational people with wide-ranging experience and remarkable journeys who have particular wisdom to share.

Another contributor is Jackie Le Fevre who spent twelve years in nature conservation, before working with young people and in community development and training. She followed this with the setting up her own company, Magma Effect, responsible for bringing one of the world’s leading values profiling technologies to the UK.

The conference will follow MODEM’s usual pattern of MODEM, offering opportunity for conversation and reflection sparked by challenging and thought-provoking input from our speakers.

In ‘Uncharted Journeys’, we will gather round the notion of uncertainty, of how we seize the challenge of helping to create the future, what that means for us as individuals but also as part of something larger than ourselves.

Our speakers will draw on their stories and help us to uncover how we can think about the future, and what we can ‘do’ and ‘be’.

Conference delegates are invited to submit a brief paper on a significant uncharted journey that they have made or are making.

These papers will be curated and shared with all attendees, but not formally presented or debated. Sharing these reflections will highlight the way in which we make uncharted journeys in the company of others and the implications for how ‘we map the future together.’

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Details

Dates & Times

21 - 22 Nov 2022
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12pm arrivals on 21st; 4pm departures on 22nd

Category

Leadership Learning

Tutor(s)

The Revd Canon Professor James Woodward

Course code

2698

What our students say

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.

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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.’

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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.

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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

Retreats and Private Stays

When I arrived, exhausted and sensitive, I was grateful not to be asked by Reception were I came from, whether I had had a good journey etc. That was the kind of hospitality I needed: a non-intrusive welcome that was found in ancient cultures and still survives in some societies today, where the host asks questions about a stranger and his journey only when the visitor has rested and been given food and drink.

— guest on a private stay

Biblical Study Breaks

I just found it very refreshing – as a leader of a church I don’t get as many opportunities to step out and do courses (my fault, not the church!) and so I loved it. I think it was run really well online – which is a difficult medium to work with.

Pádraig Ó Tuama (pictured) was outstanding in his balance of getting us to engage and sharing his learning. Also the quick availability of resources provided by Sarum College Librarian Jayne Downey was excellent.

— course participant, Story Theology: Narrative Approaches to Scripture

Tutor(s)

The Revd Canon Professor James Woodward

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