COSTS:
Suggested Donation for the whole Course is:
£285 This includes refreshments, the Saturday to
Durham, tutorials and full use of the library.
There is a £10 discount for all students who pay in full before or
on 4th November.
Tutor:
The Revd Elizabeth Baxter MPhil is Executive Director
of Holy Rood House Centre for Health and Pastoral
Care and The Centre for the Study of Theology and
Health. Elizabeth is also Outreach Co-ordinator for the
Guild of Health in partnership with the Charity.
Elizabeth has run many courses for women over the
last 21 years and enjoys travelling the journey alongside women as they discover their own empowerrment
as Women of Spirit. Elizabeth writes liturgy for the
Centre and is passionate about theology and as a
Pastoral and Feminist Theologian she seeks to make
connections with issues of justice and peace.
Throughout this course Elizabeth uses images, film,
creative spaces, biblical reflection and simple ritual
and welcomes other members of the Community to
share their gifts with the group. Small group work,
some ‘home work’, reading weeks and journaling all
form a process through which women find their own
way forward and a blossoming of their own spirituality
within the Christian story.
Support Staff:
Carolyn Williamson MA Theol., is a residential community member and P.A. to Elizabeth at Holy Rood
House.
“I leave with a new song in my heart, and smile inside
and a renewed faith in a gentle God…”
HOLY ROOD HOUSE
With
The Centre for the study of
theology and health
The Centre asks for £50 to be paid by 31st October, £35 to be
paid on 4th November and thereafter a direct debit arrangement
of £50 to be paid on the 4th December, 4th January, 4th February,
4th March. Please speak to Elizabeth if these arrangements are
difficult for you.
In the case of illness or emergency situations it may be possible
for some refund of costs.
For those who wish to stay overnight B&B there is a
suggested discount rate of 50%
WOMEN’S SPIRITUALITY
COURSE
2014-15
For those coming direct from work the community will save a
meal or students may wish to eat with the
community at 6pm. The suggested discounted rate of 50%.
Students of the Course are welcome to other courses
during the year at a 25% discount.
All donations may be gift-aided. Please fill up the
enrolment form included or on line and return with the deposit of
£50 to:
Women’s Spirituality Course
Holy Rood House
10 Sowerby Road
Thirsk
Y071HX
Tel: 01845 522580
enquiries@holyroodhouse.org.uk
www.holyroodhouse.org.uk
Cheques made payable to Holy Rood House
The Centre for the Study of Theology and Health reserves the
right to change the course programme if appropriate.
“And you whose spirits are sad or unsure...Try to imagine that
someone now believes in you because she trusts your loveliest
feelings...commitments...confidence...joy. She is your best friends,
whether or not you would have her, for she calls forth the best in
you. She comes in the knowledge that together you, she, and others embody a moving image of
sacred power, a fresh wellspring of relational integrity...
Her name is love.
(Carter Heyward)
MOVING FORWARD
TOGETHER...
WOMEN’S SPIRITUALITY COURSE 2014-2015
Tuesday evenings 7-9
4th November:
Welcome Women of Spirit!
13th January
A Spirituality of Wonder
11th November:
Making Connections:
Welcome Women from the Bible
20th January
Women of Spirit doing theology i
th
18 November:
Making Connections:
Women’s Spirituality through art with
Elaine Wisdom
(Art Therapist at Holy Rood House)
25th November:
Making Connections:
Welcome Wise Women
nd
2 December:
Making Connections:
Welcome Mary, Mother of Jesus
9th December:
Christmas Gathering and
Reflections
CHRISTMAS BREAK
27th January
Women of Spirit doing theology ii
3rd February
Making Connections:
Language, Symbol and Space
10th February
Making Connections:
Creating Liturgy for ourselves
HALF TERM BREAK
Tues 3rd March
Welcome Hildegard of Bingen
21st April
“Can a male saviour save women?”
28th April
“Liberating Prophet”
*(5th May)
*Reading Week
12th May
“Embodied Christ”
19th May
“Ecological Christ”
26th May Half Term
th
*Saturday 30th May
*Women’s Spirituality Trip to
Durham Cathedral
th
9th June
“Suffering Christ”
Tues 10 March
Making Connections:
Women’s Spirituality and the Church
Tues 17 March
Making Connections:
Women’s Spirituality and Healing
Tues 24th March
Making Connections:
Welcome Mary Magdalene
EASTER
Reading Weeks
.
Making Connections:
“Introducing Feminist Christologies”
Lisa Isherwood.
‘Crosspeace’ Elaine Wisdom
16th June
“Christ Sophia”
23rd June
Women of Spirit the future
beckons...
Reflection, re-action, re-storing...
30th June
Summer Celebration and Certificates