Godly Play – Godly Play Scotland

Storyteller and Door Person Accredited Training – Duddingston – 1st-3rd November

This is a weekend, non-residential course. It starts at 1pm on Friday 1st November and finishes at 5pm on Sunday 3rd November. The venue is the Godly Play Scotland Centre in Duddingston Kirk Manse. The Godly Play Storyteller and Door Person Accredited Training is designed to give people a better understanding of both the theory and practice of Godly Play. The course explores each of the main types of story – sacred, parables and liturgy. We concentrate on the core stories that people usually tell at the beginning of their Godly Play journey. Alongside the stories and wondering, are workshops that explore the theology and theory behind Godly Play. There is a mixture of trainer led and participant storytelling sessions - so you have the opportunity to tell a story as part of the course and see and wonder about 14 other stories. Godly Play Storyteller and Door Person training courses fit a lot in, so the days are long. This is especially true of...

Circle – St Andrews – 7 July

Coffee, cake, Godly Play chat and a story to hear and wonder about – the best way to spend a Sunday afternoon! This circle will be in the Godly Play room at St Andrew's Episcopal Church, St Andrews. We meet from 12:30pm, with coffee, tea and some nibbles. Everyone is welcome. There is no need to book and there is no charge. ...

Circle – Edinburgh – 9th March

Coffee, cake, Godly Play chat and a story to hear and wonder about - the best way to spend a Saturday morning! This circle will be in the Godly Play room at Cramond Kirk Halls, part of Edinburgh Northwest Kirk. We meet from 10am, with coffee, tea and some cake. Everyone is welcome. There is no need to book and there is no charge....

The Story of Eric Liddell

26th January 202426th January 2024 By Alex Mackenzie Comment Closed

In the lead up to the 1924 Olympic Games, Scottish Sprinter Eric Liddell refused to run in the heats for his favoured 100m race, because they were being run on a Sunday. The Sabbath. God's day. If you would like to tell The Story of Eric Liddell in your own circle, but don't have your own materials, don't worry - we have five sets available to borrow from our lending collection. Borrow the Story ...

The Story of Eric Liddell

4th January 202411th January 2024 By Alex Mackenzie Comment Closed

To celebrate 100 years since Eric Liddell's historic Gold Medal win, the Eric Liddell Community launched the Eric Liddell 100 project, and we have written a new story - in the style of Godly Play - as part of this project. In 1924 Eric refused to compete in his favoured 100m race at the Paris Olympic Games, because the qualifying heats were being run on a Sunday. Eric could not run on a Sunday. Sunday is God's day - Sabbath. Instead, he said that he could run in the 400m, a distance that he hadn't run before. No one expected him to even reach the finals, let alone win the gold medal or set a new world record. He did both. We have some sets of the storytelling objects you can borrow, too. They will be in the lending collections in Edinburgh, Inverness and St Andrew's soon. You can find out more here ... ...