Programme
To help you find your way around our programme:
Calendar of Events outlines the courses and workshops being conducted in date order - for some of these you need to enrol in advance.
Regular Activities are the group activities, mostly conducted weekly or monthly (eg meditation, writing, dance) that you may join at any time.
What's New details events that are offered during the year that may not be in the annual programme and any changes that are made, as well as any important news.
Please contact Sophia to have a hard copy of the annual programme mailed to you. Phone 8373 3781 or email info@sophia.org.au.
Sophia's Facilitators:
Here are the Profiles of some of the facilitators who offer or have offered activities at Sophia.
Fiona is a poet, writer and editor and enjoys living in the city only a quick walk from the Central Market. She lives with her husband, Peter and has two adult daughters and two grandsons.
Pauline Small
Pauline has a B Ed, B Th, Grad Cert Loss Grief and Trauma Counselling. Venturing into facilitating brings together her passion for creative spirituality and the belief that the Spirit of Sophia is at work when small groups of people share their learnings and the wisdom of their lives.
Jenny Wightman
Jenny Wightman has been involved in Sophia since it began, and she tries to further its important aims in whatever ways she can. Mainly this has been through women's writing, feminist ecology and spirituality, and the native garden.
Dawn Colsey
"I am a deacon in the Anglican church. On 18th December 2010 I'll be ordained priest for local ministry in my parish. I am delighted with my new career, and grateful to Sophia for deepening and broadening my theology over the last 15 years”.
Liz Hetzel
Coming from a background in social work and improvisational theatre Liz is now immersing herself in visual arts. While she enjoys her personal explorations, she has a love of working with others in community, and Sophia and SWAN offer a place for her to do this within a spiritual context.
Estelle Gobbett
Estelle’s farming ancestry has rubbed off on her, and for most of her adult life she has been passionate about growing food. The last 33 years have given her experience growing vegetables and fruit in the Adelaide hills as part of ‘Cennednyss’ community. As she has become aware of the carbon pollution involved in much of our food production and distribution she has become determined to share with others her delight in growing our own food. Her experience as a teacher and group worker has equipped her to facilitate learning through sharing experience and practical application of theory.
Annette Jarrett
After a teaching career that spanned 46 years Annette has recently retired and is delighting in new adventures. As a teacher she was inspired by the words of Therese Sweeney OP, “without imagination, the world becomes a desert”, thus she worked to invite students and teachers into worlds of beauty, imagination and justice. For Annette, the art of teaching is the art of rigorous interpretation.
Within the Sophia community her lively interests include facilitating inter-faith dialogue, exploring the writings of the medieval and contemporary mystics; women in scripture and Dominican Spirituality (Annette has an M. Ed. and is currently completing a course in Spiritual Direction and a Masters in Theology).
Dee Michell
Dee Michell is a theologian living and working as an academic in Adelaide, SA. She has a BA with a major in Women's Studies from the University of Adelaide, and a BTh (Hons) and PhD in Theology from Flinders University. Dee is the author of Christian Science: Women, Healing and the Church (University Press of America, 2009), and the co-editor (with Jude Noble) of Women Journeying with Spirit (Ginninderra Press, 2010).