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International Conference 1st to 5th July

Spirituality and Physicality: Crossing Thresholds

The 12th International Conference on Children’s Spirituality
1st – 5th July 2012

School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK

To register and submit abstracts please visit: www.uea.ac.uk/spirituality2012.  The full conference fee includes accommodation, meals and tours; day and non-accommodation rates are also available.

The conference theme will be 'Spirituality and Physicality: Crossing Thresholds' and is inspired by the Olympic Games which will be held in London later in the Summer of 2012.  It is hosted and convened by Linda Rudge, Director of the UEA Centre for Spirituality, and Jackie Watson, former secretary of the International Association for Children's Spirituality, with key note addresses covering issues such as spirituality and physical education, the 'felt-sense' for well-being, and embodied spirituality. The conference is open to both members and non-members of the IACS.

The abstract deadline is 31^st March, which is not far away now, and conference registration is also a little cheaper before 30^th April.

This is the annual conference of the International Association for Children’s Spirituality. Please visit the website at www.childrenspirituality.org  The International Association for Children's Spirituality seeks to promote and support research and practice in relation to children's spirituality within education and wider contexts of children's care and wellbeing.  The Association understands spirituality broadly and inclusively as having relation to the religious and beyond the religious. We encourage holistic approaches to children's spirituality and personal development across a variety of disciplines, professions, organisations and communities.