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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 30th November 2023

Inspiring Leadership – Emmie Bidston

MODEM Conference 2023 – Summary by Vaughan S. Roberts Inspiring Leadership – Emmie Bidston The speaker at this year’s MODEM day conference was Emmie Bidston who, with Katy Granville-Chapman, is co-author of Leader: Know, Love and Inspire your People. Her presentation was divided into three parts. First, she encouraged us to think about leadership and flourishing….

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 30th April 2023

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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 22nd November 2022

Navigating Uncharted Journeys through Values

Contemporaneous notes from the fourth speaker session at the MODEM Conference 2022. Jackie Le Fevre speaking about core/sacred values – values that you just can’t go against. Discovered this when submitting a project for a degree, and couldn’t bring herself to break one of her core values (do you need to kill animals to study…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 22nd November 2022

Uncharted Journeys – towards a future story

Contemporaneous notes from MODEM’s 2022 Conference, session 3. Rt. Rev. Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, Bishop of Willesden, talking about the role he had in Leicester diocese, when he was trying to make the Church of England more representative of the community that it serves. How do we inhabit an emergent process of cultural change? Keeping definitions of…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 21st November 2022

Sarum College’s Uncharted Journey

Contemporaneous notes from MODEM’s 2022 Conference, second speaker session. UPDATE – James’ slideshow is now available to download below. Rev. Prof. James Woodward is talking about an uncharted journey taken as leader at Sarum College through the pandemic. This consists of a number of stories, interlinking and at times conflicting stories, that happened, and is…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 21st November 2022

Uncharted Journeys

Contemporaneous notes from the 2022 MODEM Conference at Sarum College, first speaker session. Professor Margaret Heffernan is opening the conference talking about her book, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future. She was brought up as an Episcopalian in the US, and has attended a village church in the UK since she’s been here. Uncharted came…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 19th May 2021

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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 19th May 2021

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Published by Vaughan Roberts on 25th November 2020

‘The Best & The Worst’ – Stories & Blame

From the Chair – Vaughan S. Roberts In his book The Art of Political Storytelling (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) Philip Seargeant provides a stimulating analysis of the role stories have in political life. It includes a section headed ‘Strategic Narratives’ (59-64) in which he argues: “The development of storytelling abilities was one of the key factors behind humankind’s…

Published by Matt Harbage on 3rd November 2020

Leadership in Protest

“If my name remains among the sponsors of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, it is because I believe that this dedicated group is sincerely striving to spread the teachings of the Gospel and of the Church on war, peace, and the brotherhood of man. However, my sponsorship does not imply automatic approval of any and every…