When a painter paints a picture he interprets reality. During the last two thousand years artist have used the Bible as a rich source for interpretations of the Christian reality. Carl Fuglsang-Damgaard has during the last 15 years used pictures in his work with students. He
will explain how working with pictures can give faith a new dimension and how art may be a tool for students to see the beauty that surrounds them (even in the modern world).

Carl Fuglsang-Damgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark is working at the University Chaplaincy in Copenhagen and is art historian.

In 2007 I have been engaged in an initiative called "Faith Friendly Australia" which links with some work being done in the US by David Miller at Yale's Center for Faith and Culture. Our initiative involves work places (including universities) recognising the benefit of the faith of their employees. The Flinders chaplains become consultants to this process.
At the same time we have been developing a charter for multifaith ministry
and exploring how the movement to "spirituality" and "no-faith" fits with
multifaith.

Geoff Boyce has been Chaplain to Flinders University for 10 years, employed by the Uniting Church in Australia. Geoff has built a model of Chaplaincy at Flinders that explores the notion of collegiality among chaplains of many faith traditions and established Flinders Multifaith Chaplaincy as a community resource.

This workshop aims to explore very briefly what the Ignatian method of 'Praying the Scriptures' is all about, and thereafter it will be EXPERIENTIAL. The participants will be shown how to pray using a simple Bible passage fromthe life of Jesus, putting themselves into the story. There will be a lot of silence!

Reverend Angela Berners-Wilson is an Anglican Priest, and the University Chaplain and Ecumenical Team Leader at the University of Bath. Bath is in the top 10 Universities in the UK, it is a Science and Technology University.

Picture: 'Paddling in the North Sea during Student Week on Iona!'

The workshop will use some creative ways to look at where confidence comes from and what confidence means for people in different theological positions.

John Butterfield is minister in the Methodist church in Scotland and part time chaplain at Stirling University.

Innovative leadership and Christian inspiration

"Innovative leadership" is a training program of MoTiv, the students chaplaincy at the TU Delft. This training program enhances personal qualities, orientation and initiative. The program revolves around four questions posed both on the level of personal life and social responsibility.
1. What should I/we take with us from past experience and tradition?
2. What urgent challenges need a response, both personal and social?
3. How do I/do we play our partial role in bridging the gap between past tradition and future challenge?
4. How can I/we make the wide perspective of the first three questions operational in our daily tasks?
These four questions together constitute a Christian perspective on personal biography in as much it is specifically Christian that the conversion (from past towards future) takes place in every personal life.

Otto Kroesen works as students pastor and assistant professor in ethics at the TU Delft. His contribution to the MoTiv training "Innovative leadership" is inspired by the work on language and history of Rosenstock-Huessy.

A virtual world occupies our imagination. The perverse and the ugly fascinate. In his book “Five meditations on beauty”, the French Chinese writer François Cheng makes the following statement: “We must have the courage to come back to beauty, the real one.” For far too long the western culture has separated the truth, the good and the beautiful. It is time to re-discover the way they are intertwined. In this workshop we will “courageously” search for expressions of “real beauty” exploring the sources of Christian faith. Creativity demanded!

Alexandra Breukink, works as a chaplain at the protestant universitary chaplaincy of Strasbourg since 2002. After her theological studies in Amsterdam, she worked as a religion teacher in Amsterdam, Hilversum and the European school in Luxemburg, where she was also the minister of the Dutch protestant church. She is highly interested by the question how the world of the arts can open new ways for Christian expression.

What we will do in this workshop is show the unconscious messages we
all send and which are mostly contradicting what we are also saying:
the other half of the message! This we can do with the aid of (slowly
played) video recordings of others and the participants. It is
paramount that we in our work and otherwise communicate as straight and
congruent as we can be, as I am sure we all agree. The background is
formed by the Goodfield method. There will be an opportunity for every
participant to have a look at him/her self.

Wim De Leeuw is university chaplain at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Picture by Bart Saeys