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[SPEAKER] How to Raise Kids in a Digital Age #GB14

Excellent, Greenbelt have just moved their offices, and have uncovered speaker talks from Greenbelt 2014, when I spoke in GTV on Raising Children in a Digital Age (and yes, I still use many of these analogies in longer workshops). Just 8 minutes to listen to (and yes, there’s a band playing another venue nearby):

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#GB14 GTV Short Talk: Raising Children in a Digital Age

8 minute talk, Treehouse, 2.30pm Saturday 23rd August. (See bio) 

How to Raise Children in a Digital Age #GB14 from Bex Lewis
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#GB14 Worship Session: Discipleship and Journeying in a Digital Age

30 minute worship session, Treehouse, 9am Saturday 23rd August. (See bio) 

A disciple is one who seeks to follow Jesus, grow in faith, and model Christian living. We reflect upon how discipleship has been affected by ‘a digital age’: has the medium and/or the message changed? We reflect on how it has offered space to journey together, to share our stories, and to encourage one another.

Discipleship and Journeying in a Digital Age for #GB14 Worship Session from Bex Lewis
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#GB40: Poetry Session (for #BIGRead14)

writing-1209718-mPoetry … it seems like such highbrow activity, one that must be taken in the right environment… and something that has largely terrified me since school! But at Greenbelt this past weekend, partly because for #BIGRead14 we’re using Stephen Cherry’s poem-prayers Barefoot Prayers, I decided to go to poetry session – with Anthony Wilson if I remember rightly, sat on the grass in a tent, feeling rather grubby I enjoyed myself. Some of the key notes I made in the session:

  • It’s about making connections – creating new links where non existed before.
  • Link the 5 senses to what you want to say
  • Carry a notebook to capture ideas as you’re out/about as you’ll forget when you get home… they don’t have to go anywhere, but they keep your brain going and may get used at some point.
  • Suggested Les Murray – The Paperbark Tree – talking of Wordsworth – housing the dream – there is the body/the body conscious, and the daylight/dreaming minds – the second of which can’t really be pinned down.
  • Peter & Anne Samson – The Poetry Business – dreams don’t have to make sense …  the power of mystery, but also specificity – dreams often vivid.
  • Poems can stop without giving a sense of completion = leave the mystery.
  • The title is a signpost/label that frames how we read the poem.

We then undertook an exercise to write our own poetry… Earlier in the session we’d been encouraged to think of weather (sunshine), music (jazz), animal (cow), place you’d love to be (beach), and what you think first thing in the morning (urgh) – we then have 5 mins to write a poem – here’s what I came up with:

As the sun streams through the office window

I dream of dozing on the beach

As funky jazz plays softly in the background

And a cow wanders past in the surf

Urgh – I’m back at the desk, cursor winking impatiently at me”

And I even volunteered to read it out (well, if you’re going to have a learning experience, might as well go the whole hog!) – and got positive feedback that people could picture it (and the sense of frustration of being back in front of an immovable screen)!

Most important advice: be in the poem and keep it short.

Learn more with The Poetry School, or Peter Samson ‘Writing Poems‘ recommended for reading lists/exercises.