Telling Encounters: Workshop

Path Through the Woods with June Boyce-Tillman

Video premiered during Path Through the Woods workshop at conference.

A music workshop was held (led by Neil Valentine, Vicky Feldwick and June Boyce-Tillman) in advance of the conference on this theme, stimulated by some of the material in this video. The piece is built using contributions and responses collected online at September’s workshop and woven together with four original poems and a recording of the University of Winchester Folk Band and Choir performing Scarborough Fayre.

Telling Encounters: Stories of Disability, Faith, Church and God was our 9th annual conference on disability & church in partnership between St Martin in the Fields & Inclusive Church. Devised during the pandemic, we were entirely online for the first time and hosted by HeartEdge. It was a steep learning curve to work out how to transition the conference to an online format with talks, workshops, small groups, liturgy, marketplace, chaplaincy and coffee hangout. Thanks to the disabled-led planning team and conference staff for making this work.

Sadly due to technical issues BSL & captions were not captured on all the recordings. Huge thanks to Rachel Noel, our tech lead, for the enormous undertaking of streaming, recording and rendering the films to be the best they can be.

Krysia Waldock’s blog conference report.

Fiona MacMillan wrote about the conference planning in Finding Abundance (ed Samuel Wells, Canterbury 2021)

News of the latest conference and an archive of materials from earlier conferences can be found at https://www.inclusive-church.org/disability-conferences.