Life Matters Course

 A nine-day course for young adults conducted once or twice a year during Australian university holidays. This course gives a chance for participants to look at their lives and to develop new skills for living. The program is varied and interactive. It includes panel discussions, personal reflection, workshops, music, outdoor activities - and mixing with people from diverse walks of life and cultural backgrounds.

Aims:

• to help develop the skills and character strengths needed to contribute to positive change in today's world
• to expand ones world view and ability to respond to people and situations
• to help each person explore and discover their own distinctive purpose

Skills development in:

• Discerning the moral values needed in the task of creating a world that works
• Learning how an individual can make a difference
• Making conflict transformation and reconciliation practical
• Active listening - to other people, and to the 'inner voice' for meaning and direction
• Community building, teamwork and leadership
• Understanding the root of particular national and international issues
• Problem solving through personal change
• Spiritual empowerment for transforming people and society

These courses are based at Armagh, the Australia/Pacific Centre for Initiatives of Change in Melbourne. The most recent course was held at Armagh in February 2010 with 20 participants coming from around Australia and the Asia Pacific region. 

The next Life Matters Course will be held during January or February in 2011

Requests for Life Matters Course brochures, including information on costs and application forms, should be addressed to:

The Life Matters Course Coordinators Armagh 226 Kooyong Road, Toorak, Victoria 3142 Australia Tel:+61 3 98221218 Fax: +61 3 9822 6871 Or you can email the Life Matters Course Coordinators at lifematters@au.iofc.org