Kanuga - summer camp

I'm headed to Kanuga for the week. Candy tells me its a wonderful experience and a great place at the Episcopal Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. I'm looking forward to being there and playing with Godly Play along with Mary Gardner. Here's the brief description of what we'll be doing.


Understanding Godly Play’s Spiral Curriculum

Becoming fluent in Godly Play is a process similar to any spiritual practice.

It involves time and experience with the core practice; learning the core stories and working (playing) with them together with children.

The enrichment curriculum* is then best added (a minimum of several years later) as an extension and deepening of the core curriculum, using it within the context of the experience and practice of the core.

This spiral journey takes not only the children to a deeper experience but the adults as well who are privileged to journey together with the children in this way. Godly Play can also become a practice for adults to make meaning in their own lives as well.

We are offering working on offering training to better reflect this process. This week at Kanuga will be a unique opportunity to experience and reflect on Godly Play on three different levels. We will be taking one core lesson and using it in these three different but connected venues. We will use one of the core stories to introduce Godly Play for those who are new to this curriculum which will also serve as a refresher to those already familiar with it. (It is always valuable to regularly ground ourselves in this core practice.) We will use the same story and extend the experience by exploring ways to deepen and enrich this practice. Using the same story once again we will invite participants in a retreat model to reflect on how to use the language of this story to name, wrestle with and make meaning of their own story

As always, Godly Play will be an experiential workshop that will invite you to go beyond theory (which you will get) and enter the experience which promises to be deeply meaningful and playful for the novice as well as the experienced Godly Play practitioner.

I'm on my way with expectancy and enthusiasm!

*this would include vols 6 and 7 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play