Bruce is a soulful and experienced educator who loves to curate learning that engages the whole person and draws out collective wisdom. Take advantage of his education services to strengthen you or your team by deepening your capacity for reflective practice for the good life.
  • GROUP WORK
  • SPEAKING
  • CONSULTANCY

Group Work

 What would best help you develop your team as those who can discern and respond to Sacred invitations, both individually and collectively? Bruce can offer seminars and resources tailored to suit your needs.​

Speaking

With years of research and teaching experience under his belt, Bruce can address a wide range of topics as a keynote speaker for your next event.

Consultancy

Engage Bruce to help you assess the spiritual climate and culture of your organisation and tailor pathways forward to help you and the people you serve flourish.

Possible Topics for Your Next Event

  • FORMATION
  • SPIRITUALITY
  • SPIRITUALITY (more)
  • REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
  • CARE
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  • Christian formation: foundations and dispositions
  • Formation and reflection
  • Formation and community
  • Formation and thinking
  • Formation and liminality
  • Formation and resources (time/money/health)
  • Formation and vocation
  • Is everyone ‘spiritual’? An introduction to ‘primordial’ spirituality
  • Coming home to our belovedness
  • Exploring intersections between primordial and Christian spirituality
  • Jesus, community and bible—3 pillars for Christian spirituality
  • Christian spiritualities in biblical perspective
  • Silence is golden: the gift of ‘negative space’ for fruitful living
  • The ‘yes’ and ‘no’ of Christian spirituality: leaning into aesthetic and ascetic rhythms
  • Developing a rule of life and how (not) to approach spiritual/formational practices
  • Writing my own Psalm or orientation, dis-orientation or new-orientation
  • Learning to lament
  • Discernment for dummies / The idiot’s guide to discernment / Discernment for the rest of us
  • An introduction to spiritual experience
  • Contemplative living: an introduction to theology and practice
  • Spiritual direction: what is it and how might it help me?
  • Why don’t we want what we want? Spirituality, desire and resistance
  • On prayer and praying
  • Spirituality for the seasons of life
  • Betwixt and between: Exploring spirituality for liminality and transition
  • Living the Paschal Mystery in our everyday
  • Finding your inner nun/monk: an introduction to desert spirituality
  • Images of God in our spiritual journey
  • Listening: An introduction
  • Insights from Celtic spirituality: How pilgrimage, thin places and soul friends can enrich our lives
  • Spirituality and the affects: Learning to notice God through our emotions
  • Spirituality and the incarnation pt 1: Connecting to God through creation
  • Spirituality and the incarnation pt 2: Connecting to God through our bodies
  • Up on the mount: The transfiguration and transformation
  • Spiritual formation through the power of our stories
  • The whole package: how God shapes head, heart and hand through reflective practice
  • Living the good life: how shalom can reshape the way we see and participate in the world
  • Graces of shalom: reconciling relationships, justice and righteousness, beauty and creativity, and paschal wholeness
  • Tourist or pilgrim? A spirituality for walking with the 3 mile an hour God
  • How to have better conversations through a contemplative meaning-making
  • The Emmaus Labyrinth and its three simple movements for reflective practice
  • Deep Listening Suite
    • ‘Listen in!’ Attending to the Sacred by listening in to my spirituality and personhood
    • ‘Listen out!’ Attending to the Sacred by listening out to others and the world
    • ‘Listen up!’ Attending to the Sacred by listening up to wellsprings of theology and wisdom
  • Discernment: its modes, nature, experiences and etiquette
  • Picture this: Two ways the imagination can catalyse discernment
  • Embodiment: 7 images for how discerned truths become reality
    • Walking the talk–stepping onto the path we’re walking using solvitur ambulando
    • Living the Möbius Strip--nurturing flow between soul and role
    • Ordinary Sainthood--God’s power perfected in our weakness
    • Wounded healing—befriending our wounds so they become founts of healing for others
    • Abiding fruitfulness—moving from productivity to fruitfulness
    • Harnessing the wind—using what we have to catch God’s breeze
    • Living sacrifices—living discerned truths as a fragrant act of worship
  • Courage as encouragement: overcoming obstacles to embodiment through God’s presence, providence and power 
  • Theological foundations for the dynamics and ministry of care
    • God as carer
    • Persons and imago/missio Dei
    • Care as participation in God’s caring
  • Spiritual dynamics of care
    • vulnerability
    • wounded healing
    • availability
    • presence
    • enmeshment/detachment
    • hospitality
    • listening
    • dialogue
    • encountering the mystery of the other
    • care as communal
    • worship as care
    • self-care

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