Life Matters Workshops

The Life Matters workshops give young adults a chance to look at their lives and develop new skills for living. The programme is varied and interactive. It includes panel discussions, personal reflection, workshops, music, outdoor activities and mixing with people from diverse walks of life, religious and cultural backgrounds.

Aims:

to help develop the skills and character strengths needed to contribute to positive change in today's world
to expand ones world view and ability to respond to people and situations
to help each person explore and discover their own distinctive purpose

Skills development in:

Discerning the moral values needed in the task of creating a world that works
Learning how an individual can make a difference
Making conflict transformation and reconciliation practical
Active listening - to other people, and to the inner voice for meaning and direction
Community building, teamwork and leadership
Understanding the root of particular national and international issues
Problem solving through personal change
Spiritual empowerment for transforming people and society

For more information, please contact Rob Wood [1]

Indigenous and African youth of Australia discuss Life Matters in Blacktown, Western Sydney [2]

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Chief Inspector Bob Fitzgerald from the Blacktown Police presents certificates to some of the indigenous young people who took part in a Life Matters workshop in Blacktown, western suburbs of Sydney.

Saturday, 30 August, 2014

Life Matters Blacktown - Gerringong [3]

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A Life Matters Workshop was held in Gerringong, 15-17 August 2014. Appears in the NewsLocal 20 August 2014 digital edition.

Thursday, 24 March, 2011

Mike Lowe [4]

Life Matters course in Melbourne [5]

Participants and faculty of the Feb 2011 Life Matters course in Melbourne.

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For the 21 young adults who participated in the Life Matters course in Melbourne, Australia, it was a life-changing experience. Over nine days in February, they examined issues of culture and identity, the wounds of history, forgiveness, conflict transformation and the moral and spiritual qualities needed to become a change-maker.

Thursday, 14 October, 2010

Rosemary Thwaites [6]

Life Matters Sydney style [7]

[7]

A Life-Matters weekend workshop, based on the full nine-day Life Matters course, took place in Sydney, 17-19 September for a diverse group of young adults at the Granville Community Centre.