Tuesday

The bar offers a wide range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as snacks. Card payment only.

Fairtrade tea, coffee and other hot drinks are available free of charge from the Lounge throughout the conference.

You have free use of an indoor gym equipped with running, cycling, and rowing machines and weights. The sports hall is also available for football, badminton, and basketball. Croquet equipment is by the main house lawn.

Happening on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, be sure to sign up for one of the spaces for exploration. These include workshops, guided conversations, creative arts and prayer and spirituality reflection spaces. They offer a range of ways to engage creatively, deepen engagement or provide space for active reflection.

Sign-up sheets can be found in the foyer area of the Derbyshire Hall, our main meeting space. Please note that some workshops and reflection spaces have limited space available. Sign up promptly to avoid disappointment.

Derbyshire 2

Explore the Psalms as tools for articulating grief and struggle, public and private, to God and to one another. Fresh translations provide a way to engage and study texts, acknowledging the feelings and thoughts of those who composed them and those who read, recite or pray them today. Megan Daffern teaches the Hebrew Bible in Cambridge.

Tissington Room, Lakeside

The only thing which can truly help us in an increasingly challenging landscape is a fresh hearing of the words of Jesus. In the first of two sessions, Ian Parkinson invites you to engage anew with the heart of our calling and how we understand our role as leaders. Ian works with the Diocese of Sheffield helping clergy develop the ministry of all God’s people and spent 30 years in parish ministry.

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Derbyshire 3 – maximum 30 participants

3D Coaching’s Su Blanch provides a space for clergy to consider approaches to building healthy relationships with key leaders in their own context, minimising possibilities for relationship breakdown. Su works with clergy across the Church of England, coaching on relationships and issues in parish contexts.

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Buxton Room, Lakeside – maximum 20 participants

There’s a time for laughter and a time for tears – and sometimes both at once. Explore the role of laughter in darker times and delve into laughter as a participation in God and a lens to encounter anew sections of scripture. Led by Ian Macdonald, diocesan Discipleship Enabler, and the Revd Dr Andrea Russell, Director of Formation for Ministry.

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Derbyshire 5 – maximum 20 participants

How do you replenish the energy used up in everyday ministerial life? Psychotherapist and Anglican priest Anne Holmes looks at how we can resource ourselves through the creative arts and other outlets. Featuring a short example of creative repair through music and a variety of art works.

Derbyshire 7 – maximum 20 participants

Derbyshire Hall

Butterley 1 – maximum 20 participants

Derwent Room, Lakeside

Writing Room, main house – maximum 25 participants

Reading Room, main house

Butterley 2

Derbyshire 8 – maximum 20 participants

Chapel – maximum 50 participants

Meet at main reception – maximum 20 participants

Lounge, main house

At other times through our conference Epiphany and Tamara will be offering individual or small group improvised ‘Sound Portraits’ which last 15 minutes. Many were deeply moved by these experiences in 2018, so these are not to be missed! Time slots must be booked in advance.