Facilitation

which includes both less formal learning events and more formal teaching and learning

Designing and delivering highly engaging learning experiences is an on-going challenge in any organisation. It is often difficult for 'insiders' to see and appreciate resistances to learning in positive terms and design processes that are transformative. I can take an idea or a set of ideas and turn them into a course of learning over one day, several days or weeks, or even months. I can design the ‘architecture’ of learning as well as creating and writing learning materials which I, or others, can facilitate. I can co-create with you a learning process for your organisation or staff conference or ‘away-day’.

More than thirty years of experience as an adult educator, utilising principles which start with “trusting the learners” (Freire). Always being a learner alongside those who are learning.

Pitch me your idea and we take it from there.

The Diocese of Birmingham. Working with Harvey Kwiyani I created  a four session course called "Two-Way Street: Steps to Intercultural Life and Mission" which has been used in several churches. They say it is: "An inspiring, transforming resource for intercultural mission". See: https://birmingham.learn.anglican.org/course/view.php?id=221#home

The Ugly Duckling Company- I took a basic idea around practices that contribute to happiness and created a six-week learning programme. I then facilitated the first running of the programme in front of a camera – see http://www.thehappinesslab.org/ The feedback I received was universally positive and the results speak for themselves on the resource we created.

I teach, supervise and examine at undergraduate, Masters and Doctorate levels. I have effectively supervised a doctorate at Leeds Trinity University and am currently working with a DProf student at Angllia Ruskin University via the Cambridge Theological Federation. I convene, chair and contribute to academic conferences and workshops. I can collaborate with independent academic organisations seeking university validation of a new programme of study or create and deliver a whole module with a basic outline. The subjects I work and teach in are; Christian ministry and mission, missiology; cultural anthropology and Christian mission; ecclesiology; practical theology; Christian leadership; contextual theology; adult theological education; Christian spirituality; World Christianity with an emphasis on Africa.

I hold a professional doctorate in missiology from Birmingham University and have created and taught academic courses around the UK for 15+ years. I was the editor of the Journal of Adult Theological Education from 2010-2016 and  the international journal Practical Theology from 2016-2023. I founded and am the co-editor of the journal Ecclesial Futures. I have published several books, monographs and journal articles. I am a member of the British and Irish Association for Practical Theology, the International Association for Mission Studies and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham and at the University of South Africa (UNISA).

We discuss your teaching needs in relation to my expertise and work out my involvement in meeting your requirements.

London School of Theology (validating a new MA programme)

Westcott House, Cambridge (teaching Mission, Evangelism and Pioneering)

St. Hild College, Yorkshire (supervising MA students)