Training

Coaching prevents tensions and differences from escalating and empowers individuals to understand and resolve conflict effectively. It is a highly useful addition to your professional toolkit. We use a dynamic approach in structured stages, based partly on Jones and Brinkert’s Comprehensive Conflict Coaching model, augmented with skills, practices and perspectives…

St Ethelburga’s deep adaptation workshops offer an opportunity to face the reality of climate breakdown, move beyond denial or fear, and explore how we might become a source of courage and vision for those around us. We offer a model to live differently in this unfolding and unknowable landscape, based…

This workshop offers essential skills and knowledge for facilitating groups and deepening dialogue. These include: Practical models and processes; Dialogue theories; Creating safe space; Group facilitation; Responding to tension and conflict; Common facilitator challenges. Participants will learn how to enhance a group’s listening skills, create safe spaces and set parameters…

In the face of planetary crisis, the younger generations are leading the way integrating spirituality with activism and the need for systemic change.  Generation Y and Z are showing impressive natural leadership and speaking hard truths with conviction where their elders have failed.   Our passionate young leaders will lead your…

Radical Resilience is St Ethelburga’s model for growing courage and purpose in an age of climate emergency. We offer a values-led model of resilience, since we find that engaging with our deepest sense of purpose unlocks a regenerative power within us that can bring joy, freedom and hope – even…

A values-driven initative that builds empathy for the plight of refugees, opens up conversations of curiosity and grows a better understanding of our changing communities. Since 2016 St Ethelburga’s has been taking groups to volunteer in refugee camps in Greece and France.  Over a week, volunteers work hard for a…

The calling for us to reconcile our relationship with the Earth, our common home which is in deep crisis, could not be more urgent. Moving beyond mainstream approaches, spiritual values can provide the foundation from which to respond and rebuild, and create real and lasting change. This training will engage both heart and…

Want to find out more about our centre, values, and programmes? Join us for half a day to visit the centre and be hosted by one of our programme managers. The centre has a deep, rich history and our programmes are continually evolving based on current conflicts. This workshop will…

Stories have always existed – to entertain, teach, pass on wisdom, record history, represent beliefs, explore new ideas, share experiences, build community, and express creativity. The word, story, is derived from the Greek word meaning knowing, knowledge and wisdom. Human beings seem to have a natural tendency to think, speak,…