Godly Play Nourishing Children’s Spirituality: A Case Study- Brendan Hyde Assignment Two Presented by Luke Baddock

Godly Play ✤ Jerome W Berryman ✤ Children’s Spirituality: ✤ The Felt Sense ✤ Integrating Awareness ✤ Weaving Threads of Meaning ✤ Spiritual questing

Godly Play Process ✤ Cross the threshold ✤ Do they have the maturity? ✤ Storytelling: ✤ Scripture ✤ Parable ✤ liturgical action

Godly Play Process ✤ Wondering ✤ Hyde identifies as central ✤ Not a question and answer time

Godly Play Process ✤ Responding ✤ Free choice of activity ✤ Responses explore the storytelling ✤ Connecting to spiritual characteristics of children

Characteristics of Children’s spirituality ✤ The Felt Sense - the way in which a child draws on wisdom of her or his own body as a natural and primal way of knowing. ✤ Integrating Awareness - refers to an emerging level of consciousness enveloping or integrating, a previous level of awareness ✤ Weaving Threads of Meaning- refers to the child drawing on her or his own sense of wonder as a means by which to make sense of the world ✤ Spiritual questing - refers to the fact that children are seekers, they are searching for a sense of life’s meaning and purpose.

Godly Play and Ranson’s Cyclical model Godly PlayRanson Crossing the threshold Attending Storytelling/ Wondering Inquiring Responding Interpreting Using in everyday life Acting

Implications for Religious Education ✤ Sydney Diocese CEO has integrated into curriculum ✤ Necessary resources ✤ Necessary training ✤ Creating inviting environment ✤ Overcoming conflicting ideas