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Ceremony to Honour the Aunties
Recognising the Sacred in My Story
Environmental Change CANCELLED
Sophia End of Year Celebration
Programme
EVENTS HELD EARLIER IN 2008
BrigidFest: Sophia’s Year Begins
Spiritual Healing with Reiki
Yoga to Replenish Body, Mind & Spirit
International Women’s Day
Don’t Strain; Train Your Brain
This Blind Matter: Encountering Death
Women in the Hebrew Bible
Celtic Retreat Day
Cultural Awareness Workshop
Images of the Sacred
Sophia’s Annual General Meeting
Who Was Mary Magdalene?
Anne Roder Memorial Lecture
Continuing the Enneagram Journey
Health & Healing Retreat Day
Passion, Purpose & Play
Annual Book Sale for Sophia Library
Reconciliation Week
Australia’s BIGGEST Morning Tea
World Environment Day Forum
Retreat with Mary Magdalene
Margaret Cain Depth Psychology Lecture
NAIDOC Week
The Enneagram for Parents
Festival of Feminist Theologies & Biblical Studies
The Wellspring: Tapping into Inner Wisdom
Adult Learners’ Week
Beginning the Enneagram Journey
Sing in the Spring
UN International Day of Peace
Art as Meditation: The Divine at Play
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F = Full Fee C = Concession
MF = Members Full Fee MC = Members Concession
Around the Kitchen Table 001
Indigenous and non-indigenous women sharing our cultures. We meet every few months for a meal and conversation.
Please bring a plate of food to share.
Dates: dates to be advised during year
Time: 6.00pm - 8.30pm
Cost: Gold coin
Women
Ceremony to Honour the Aunties 299
Angela Moloney
Watch the Newsletter and Website for further information.
Date: to be advised
Cost: Gold coins
Women, men and children
Shakespeare Plus ... 303
Jenny Wightman
This new 3 part course gives a wider perspective on Shakespeare’s art. Christopher Marlowe was his contemporary, but was murdered young.
Shakespeare learnt a great deal from him, and we’ll look first at Dr Faustus, Marlowe’s dramatic version of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
In the second session we’ll discuss Shakespeare’s Henry IV part 1, then finish with The Tempest.
Each session will begin with a short introductory talk, followed by informal discussion. It will be necessary for members to have read or seen each play. Information about videos and DVDs will be available nearer the time.
Day: Thursday
Dates: Three weekly sessions commencing 9 October
Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Cost: F$35 C$25 MF$31.50 MC$22.50
Women
Recognising the Sacred In My Story 255
Angela Moloney
”The Journey is Home” (Nelle Morton); Is it time to see where you are on your spiritual journey? Are you at home? Come and share conversations, input, rituals, meditations and other growthful experiences.
Day: Thursday
Dates: Seven weekly sessions commencing Thursday 16 October
Time: 10.30am - 12.45pm
Cost: F$60 C$40 MF$54 MC$36
Women
Environmental Change 277
Sally Hunter
Unfortunately this course has been CANCELLED
due to unforseen personal reasons.
The prospect of environmental change can be disturbing. How will you cope? And what can you do about it? Come along and find out! We will concentrate on positives.
Day: Monday
Dates: Four weekly sessions commencing Monday 3 November
Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Cost: Full Course: F$40, C$30, MF$36, MC$27
Women and men
A Retreat Day 279
Angela Moloney
Gifted poets and other artists make accessible to us what lies at the essence of humanity and divinity. This day of quiet, prayerful reflection will find inspiration and nurture from Mary Oliver’s and Alla Bozarth’s poetry.
Please bring lunch to share or order it for $10 by Friday 30 October.
Day: Friday 7 November
Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm
Cost: F$40 C$30 MF$36 MC$27
Women
AIDS Awareness Week
See Newsletter and website closer to date for activities of interest during this week.
Dates: Tuesday 25 November to Monday 1 December
Women, men and children
Sophia End of Year Celebration 122
It is our tradition to gather in December to celebrate our time together during the year. Come and celebrate with us!
Please bring food and drink to share.
Date: Saturday 13 December
Time: 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Cost: Gold coins
Women and men
END OF EVENTS FOR 2008
EVENTS HELD EARLIER IN 2008
Brigidfest: Sophia’s Year Begins 043
Fran Hegarty & Gail Donovan
Celebrate the feast of Brigid with the weaving of her crosses and a celebration of her life and spirits. In the way of Brigid, bring along clothing and non-perishable food for donation to Cooloch House, and a plate of summer fruits to share.
- Date: Friday, 1 February
- Cost: Gold coins
- Women, men and children
Spiritual Healing with Reiki 288
Rosemary Jones
The healing energy of Reiki comes from connecting with our Spiritual Source. Come and explore what Reiki is.
- Date: Friday 8 February
- Cost: Gold coins
- Women
Yoga to Replenish Body, Mind & Spirit
154
Lena Lapinska
Take time to escape the fast pace of modern living and rebalance yourself, body mind and spirit, with Dru Yoga. Enjoy a nurturing day with gentle movement
, long relaxation, easy meditation and revitalising body therapy.
Suitable for all, young or old. No previous experience is necessary. You need to bring a bottle of water, mat or towel, cushion and blanket and wear
comfortable clothing.
- Date: Saturday 23 February
- Cost: F$40 C$30 MF$36 MC$27
- Women and men
The Sophia community celebrates this important day.
- Date: Saturday 8 March
Don’t Strain: Train Your Brain
304
Margaret Samways
It’s important to keep your mind active. The good news is that you can do it by having a good time. Puzzle games are good. Puzzle games done with friends are even better.
At our first meeting we will be looking at Sudoku and other games that require organisation and discipline.
- Date: Friday 14 March
- Cost: Gold coins
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This Blind Matter: Encountering Death 278
Jenny Wightman
Death has fascinated us down the millenia. We have told stories and sung songs about it, expressed fear of it, tried to explain it, found ways to reconcile
ourselves to it and grieved or felt guilty when others died.
Come and share our afternoon of exploration of our inheritance on this matter
through literature, music and movement. Anne Dolan OP, Chaplain at Flinders Medical Centre will tell us about some deathbeds she has attended. Anna Holdcroft will sing; and InterPlay perform to Bryn Terfel, Faure’s ‘Pie Jesu’.
Come! Be surprised! We’re known as a death-defying society - let’s counter the trend!
- Date: Sunday 16 March
- Cost: F$15 C$10 MF$13.50 MC$9
- Women and men
Women in the Hebrew Bible
291
Frances Passingham
Course Cancelled : Due to unforeseen circumstances, the facilitator was unable to present this course during 2008. Expressions of interest will be
taken as the course may be rescheduled for 2009.
Stories of women in the Hebrew Bible range dramatically from prophetess, seductress to victim. Some stories are empowering and intriguing, others degrading and humiliating. Consider these stories from their original social and historical setting and from the perspective of what they mean for women today
- Dates: Four Tuesdays sessions - 25.03 27.05 26.08 23.09
- Cost: F$55 C$40 MF$49.50 MC$36
- Women
Celtic Retreat Day 038
Angela Moloney & Sophia Vogt
Western culture desperately needs wholistic ways of living. Celtic heritage nourishes in us an wholistic spirituality which honours the interconnectedness and interdependence of all creation and the Divinity. Come and experience rich Celtic traditions through music, poetry, story, meditation, nature and dance.
- Date: Thursday 27 March
- Cost: F$40 C$30 MF$36 MC$27
- Women and men
NEW
Cultural
Awareness Workshop
Karranjal John Hartley
Supported by ANTaR and Human Rights Coalition
The presenter, Karranjal Johh Hartley, was born in the homelands of the Dharug Nations Cadigal clan at Kogarah (place of reeds) NSW and is of K Ku Yalanji/Irish descent, his mother’s Yalanji homelands being in Far North
Queensland. He now resides in Kaurna homelands, Adelaide.
With community consultation John has been developing and facilitating workshops since 1994. These workshops draw upon the Cultural wisdom of the
Ancestors and Elders.
- Dates: Sunday 30 March
- Cost: FREE - Donation to Aboriginal Cultural Movement invited
- Women Men
Images of the Sacred 275
Angela Moloney
How do you image, perceive, experience the ‘Sacred Other’ in your life? Do you wonder about this intimate question? Explore what other women say and share our understanding.
- Dates: Four weekly sessions commencing Thursday 3 April
- Cost: F$55 C$40 MF$49.50 MC$36
- Women
Sophia’s Annual General Meeting
Embracing the Apology
- Date: Wednesday 9 April
- Women and men
Who Was Mary Magdalene? 283
Fiona Johnston & Sally Hunter
Jesus’ close friend; apostle to the apostles; initiator? We will draw on the New Testament, the Gnostic Gospels and contemporary research to extend our understanding of Mary Magdalene.
- Dates: Four weekly sessions commencing 22 April
- Cost: F$55 C$40 MF$49.50 MC$36
- Women
Anne Roder Memorial Lecture 254
Beauty and Struggle: Beholding the Divine
Dianne Bradley
“Behold I Am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28.20b, Genesis 28.15
I look forward to exploring with you, trusting in God’s Spirit as exemplified in Anne’s life, how we might look again at what it means to behold the Divine I Am
through the contemplation of Beauty both with our mind’s eye and with our heart’s knowing.
I am encouraged in this by many contemporary men and women who are
reminding the church of the relationship between theology and spirituality and how holding this relationship is vital to authentic deepening of faith experience.
Donald Gelpi SJ, writing about personal transformation speaks about prayer honouring our feelings (affective experience) and about our need “to cultivate aesthetic sensitivity to beauty”.
I shall draw upon representations of beauty in art and upon mystics past and present, mystics from Julian of Norwich to Esther de Waal and Joan Chittister, as
they call us to stop, notice and wonder at the beauty in creation and in our lives - in all their glory and struggle. I hope that we may rediscover ways of re-membering our paths and of beholding Beauty in the Ground of our experience.
- Date: Sunday 27 April
- Cost: F$20 C$15 MF$18 MC$13.50
- Women and men
Continuing the Enneagram Journey 294
Penny Cahalan
Already on your Enneagram journey? This course takes you deeper. Explore how your childhood has shaped you; how wings and arrows are a valuable tool of self-understanding; and how to negotiate more effectively through relationship difficulties. This session open to 15 participants only.
- Dates: Three weekly sessions commencing Wednesday 30 April
- Cost: F$55 C$35 MF$49.50 MC$31.50
- Women and men
Purposeful play can be liberating, creative fun. This InterPlay workshop will offer techniques for living one’s life with more passion and purpose, using
improvised movement, storytelling and voice.
InterPlay uses incremental but powerful steps to integrate mind, body, heart and spirit. Its intention is to create fun and fullness in leading embodied lives in a
more playful way.
For more information contact petri@ozemail.com.au
- Day: Saturday 10 May
- Cost: F$45 C$35 MF$40.50 MC$31.50
- Women and men
Annual Book Sale for Sophia Library
Sale of a large range of generously donated second hand books. This year’s selection also includes magazines, tapes and sheet music. Funds raised help improve to Sophia Library. Donations very welcome.
- Day: Commences Friday 2 May
- Price Guide: Hardback $4 Large Paperback $3 Small Paperback $2 Magazines, Tapes, Sheet Music 10 cents
- Women and men, all welcome
The full 2008 program for South Australia is available here
http://activist.Oxfam.org.au/link/id/ce53b755224d3c8de464P9b3fc7e36a27c1446963/page.html
On Sunday 1 June
we invite you to gather at Tarndanyangga (Victoria Square)
at 11:00am and march alongside thousands to Elder Park.
Once the march arrives, enjoy a three-hour program of performances, speeches, and children’s workshops. Visit community stalls, grab a free BBQ lunch and
enjoy entertainment by the river!
For more information contact Reconciliation South Australia
- Date: Reconciliation Week 27 May - 3 June
- Women. men and children
Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea
Raising Funds for Cancer Research
Make a difference! Contribute to Cancer Research! Come and join Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea at Sophia. Morning tea drinks and food provided. Raffle prizes, quiz and community spirit.
- Date: Thursday 29 May
- Cost: GENEROUS DONATION
- Women. men and children
World Environment Day Forum
“Sophia’s Footprint”
Join members of the Sophia community. Come and hear what steps are being taken to lighten Sophia’s footprint.
Take the opportunity to share what steps you are taking to lighten yours.
The Forum will “...highlight resources and initiatives that promote low carbon economies and
life-styles, such as improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption.”
“On this World Environment Day, let us examine the state of our environment. Let us consider
carefully the actions which each of us must take, and then address ourselves to our common task of preserving all life on earth in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence.”
- Date: Thursday 5 June
- Cost: Gold coins
- Women, men and children
Retreat with Mary Magdalene 290
Fiona Johnston & Sally Hunter
For women who attended the Who Was Mary Magdalene course. We will listen to Gospel of Mary; reflect together and in silence; and share our ongoing discovery of Mary Magdalene.
- Date: Saturday 7 June
- Cost: F$40 C$30 MF$36 MC$27
- Women
Margaret Cain Depth Psychology Lecture 161
’Exploring the Archetype of the Journalist and the Art of Journaling…’
Susan Pollard
Through the archetypal image and complex of ‘the story/teller’, we will explore the role of imagination and reality in effecting personal change and social justice.
You are invited to a reflection on what Jung termed ’the Individuation process’ with the help of a variety of past and present voices from literature, film and memoir.
- Date: Thursday 12 June
- Cost: F$20 C$15 MF$18 MC$13.50
- Women and men
NAIDOC Week 286
National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee
See Newsletter and website closer to date for activities in Adelaide during this week.
- Dates: Sunday 6 to Sunday 13 July
- Women, men and children
Health & Healing Retreat Day 282
Rosemary Jones
Due to unforeseen circumstances the facilitator is unable to present the Retreat this year. It may be rescheduled during 2009.
The positive qualities of kindness, compassion, joy and peace are essential to promote healing and maintain health. This day offers a renewal of energies through relaxation, silent contemplation, meditation and the experience of Reiki.
- Date: Friday 25th July CANCELLED
- Cost: F$40 C$30 MF$36 MC$27
- Women
The Enneagram for Parents
Penny Cahalan
Do you want to refresh you parenting? Using the enneagram to guide you, this four-week course will help you to look at
- Dates: Mondays 4, 11, 25 August and 1 September
- Cost: F$55 C$35 MF$49 MC$31.50
- Women and Men
how you were parented;
how you relate to significant other adults;
how your temperament affects your parenting; and
how to use the enneagram to be a more effective parent.
Festival of Feminist Theologies & Biblical Studies 156
Dawn Colsey, Angela Moloney & Frances Passingham
As is our custom we will be holding a festival of Feminist Theologies & Biblical Studies. This year’s important and rich annual event includes:
SPEAKER: Vicky Balabanski
Critiquing anthropocentric cosmology: retrieving a Stoic ‘permeation cosmology’ in Colossians 1:15-20
Just as feminist scholarship has posed the question of whether a male saviour can
save women, this topic explores the question of whether a human saviour can be salvific for other species as well.
It also explores the indications that the community at Colossae has interpreted the
gospel with a preunderstanding of Stoic rather than Platonic cosmology, and argues that this gives a significantly different perspective for eco-hermeneutics.
SPEAKER: Margaret Hunt
The Tragedy of Princess Tamar
The Old Testament includes a handful of stories about dutiful daughters and their dysfunctional dads. We rarely hear about them, excluded as they are from the regular
church lectionary readings.
At this year’s Feminist Theology Festival, Princess Tamar will speak for the Bible’s other abused young women whose fathers not only failed to protect them, but in some
cases contributed to their daughters’ abuse.
Tamar also has a surprise for us: with a little detective work on the text and aided by Hittite and Mesopotamian documents, we will see that there might be more to this
young woman than we ever realised.
SPEAKER: Clare Hale
Orality in the Early Christian Movement
This session will explore the nature of scripture as oral text with one of the many
features being that the text or story was 'owned' by the community receiving it, the performer was the vehicle for carrying that story.
Important questions then emerge about what happens once literacy (reading and
writing) becomes the prime means for communication. Who takes ownership of the story? What is the role of gender in this process?
TABLE TALK: Plenary Conversation
DANCE: Frances Passingham
Embodying Theology
- Date: Saturday 23 August
- Cost: F$30 C$20 MF$27 MC$18
- Women
The Wellspring: Tapping into Inner Wisdom 306
Dilys Brecknock
A day of nurturing self reflection and healing using creative visualisation, expressive drawing and journalling to tap into the wellspring of inner wisdom. No art experience necessary. All materials supplied and included in cost.
- Date: Sunday 31 August
- Cost: F$50 C$40 MF$45 MC$36
- Women
Adult Learners’ Week
See Newsletter and website closer to date for Sophia activity planned for this week.
- Dates: Monday 1 to Sunday 7 September
- Women and men
Beginning the Enneagram Journey 015
Penny Cahalan
The Enneagram is a system of identifying personality types which has become increasingly popular as a tool for helping you to understand yourself and others. This course will help you to identify your type and probe its practical application to your life. You will explore the fundamental motivations which drive each type. You will look at how this simple nine-fold summary of personalities becomes more nuanced as you go deeper. Thus you will look into the concept of ‘wings’ and ‘arrows’ and begin to understand how the enneagram both challenges you to grow and affirms you in who you are. This course limited to 15 participants.
- Dates: Four weekly sessions commencing Wednesday 3
- Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm
- Cost: F$60 C$40 MF$54 MC$3
- Women and men
Sing in the Spring 295
Glenyce Durdin
Come! We will celebrate this season with songs. Bring whatever voice you have and throw it into the mix. It will be rich, varied, searching, funny and delightful. Everyone can sing. No experience necessary.
- Date: Saturday 13 September
- Cost: F$20 C$15 MF$18 MC$13.50
- Women
UN International Day of Peace
- Date: Sunday 21 September
- Women, men and children
Art as Meditation: The Divine at Play 285
Gail Donovan
In this workshop the emphasis will be on personal reflection through meditation and creative response using art materials. No previous art experience is necessary as the process is what is valuable - where insights are gained and symbols revealed. The whole approach is gentle and playful. Bring your journal if you keep one - journalling can deepen the experience and insights gained.
Date: Saturday 27 September
Cost: F$50 C$40 MF$45 MC$36
Women and men
