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Children’s Spirituality

Children’s Spirituality. Mary Hawes January 2011. Children’s Spirituality. Painting by numbers?. Children’s Spirituality. Looking at the landscape…. Baby/toddler 3 – 5 years 5 – 7 years 8 – 11 years. Children’s Spirituality.

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Children’s Spirituality

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  1. Children’s Spirituality Mary Hawes January 2011

  2. Children’s Spirituality Painting by numbers?

  3. Children’s Spirituality Looking at the landscape….. Baby/toddler 3 – 5 years 5 – 7 years 8 – 11 years

  4. Children’s Spirituality • Children…have spiritual abilities that defy conventional chronological categories of faith development. Religious faith does not develop in quite the same way as other parts of our bodies and minds from small to large or from immature to mature. Growing up, in fact, does not guarantee spiritual development. Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

  5. Children’s Spirituality • Full of potential

  6. Children’s Spirituality • Children should be helped to develop the spiritual qualities of wonder and inner peace – and the sense of something greater than themselves……No child is complete without some passionate spiritual engagement of this kind. • A Good Childhood: Layard & Dunn

  7. Children’s Spirituality

  8. Children’s Spirituality • Nourishing the roots • Being shaped • Shooting and fruiting

  9. Children’s Spirituality • Space • Process • Imagination • Relationship • Intimacy • Trust

  10. Children’s Spirituality SPACE • Physical • Focus • Threshold to the sacred • Emotional • Stillness and silence

  11. Children’s Spirituality PROCESS • Journey not end result • Genuine open questions • Opportunity to explore

  12. Children’s Spirituality IMAGINATION • Looking at things differently • Spontaneity • Opening windows not closing doors

  13. Children’s Spirituality RELATIONSHIP • More than words • Depth of engagement • Integrity • With each other • With God

  14. Children’s Spirituality INTIMACY • Coming close • Feeling safe • Becoming vulnerable

  15. Children’s Spirituality TRUST • Trusting the child • Trusting God • Trusting the material

  16. Children’s Spirituality Church/Collective Worship child-friendly? child-spirituality friendly? What are the foundations we are laying to support the child’s spiritual growth?

  17. Children’s Spirituality

  18. Going for Growth • Growth… • In spirituality • In understanding • In quality of care and nurture • In children and young people themselves

  19. Going for Growth: theology

  20. Going for Growth: principles

  21. Going for Growth: action

  22. Children’s Spirituality http://www.going4growth.org.uk

  23. Children’s Spirituality • Children’s Spirituality • Dr Rebecca Nye

  24. Children’s Spirituality Through the Eyes of a Child ed. Richards and Privett

  25. Children’s Spirituality

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