| Resilience and Reality |
| Dialogue Australasia will proudly host full-day workshops dealing with Resilience and Reality with Dr Felicity McCutcheon. |
| Melbourne - Wed 19th Oct - Westbourne Grammar Perth - Monday 24th October - Hale School Adelaide - Wed 26th Oct Catholic Education Office Sydney- Fri 28th Oct S.C.E.G.G.S. Redlands Brisbane- Wed 2nd Nov - St Laurence's College Townsville - Friday 4th Nov St Patricks College Newcastle - Tues - 8th Nov Bishop Tyrrell Ang College Hobart - Thurs 10th Nov -St Michael's Collegiate |
| "Dr McCutcheon is one of the finest educators in the field of Religious and Values education that I know. This workshop deals with a highly important topic and I cannot recommend it strongly enough."
Dr. Peter Vardy- Vice-Principal, Heythrop College, University of London |
| What is the connection between resilience and reality? A well-known psychiatrist has defined mental health as ‘dedication to reality at all costs’. This full day workshop will examine the importance of restoring the concepts of ‘reality’ and ‘truth’ to education, and in particular, to our resilience/mental health programs. It will also provide strategies for helping students dedicate themselves to reality in a way that challenges relativism, nihilism and fundamentalism. This will be an important workshop for those in leadership positions, teachers and of particular relevance to those involved in pastoral and values programs.
Dr McCutcheon has a First Class degree in Religious Studies from London University and a PhD in Philosophy from University of New South Wales. She has lectured in Philosophy of Religion at the major Sydney universities, spent a year in Oxford as a Visiting Fellow and worked for Scripture Union in Zimbabwe. It was her love of teaching that led Felicity into education and since becoming a teacher in 1997, she has been actively involved in developing Philosophy and a more rigorous approach to Religious Studies in the school curriculum. She was part of the team who wrote the VCE Philosophy course for the Victorian Board of Studies. Felicity gave a keynote address at the national conferences held in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Times: 9am-3.30pm Morning Tea and afternoon tea included. Lunch will not be provided. Cost $55 (GST Inc) DAN Members $49.50 (GST Inc) |
| "I found the day with Felicity McCutcheon totally inspiring... Her use of visuals was a brilliant tool. I continue to sift and sort through what is really important, big picture issues, that really needs to drive what we do in schools."
Louise Mason - Professional Development Co-ordinator, Lutheran Schools Assoc. SA/NT/WA |
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