Turn your faith into action
You want to bring restoration and justice to the world around you. But you don’t know how to do it. Or if it even fits with your faith.
Praxis Labs 1 is your invitation to explore God’s Grand Story and find your role in his mission to bring hope and transformation.
We run our training courses on a request basis. If you have a group of people interested in completing our training, get in touch below. To make the course financially viable we would usually need 20 people taking part, but even if you don’t have that many, let us know as we may have other groups interested.
You can also send a message to beth@praxiscentre.org to let us know you’re interested.
The Labs 1 course includes the following sessions:
- Love and questions as foundations for activism, with Praxis’ Executive Director Rich Gower
- God’s Grand Story, with Tearfund’s former Head of Theology Hannah Swithinbank
- Finding your role: Identifying your core values, with founder of Connect2Coaching Anna Boocock and head of SquarePegs Coaching Nick Smith
- Finding your role: What is God giving you hope for? With development practitioner and Tearfund trainer Thobekile Ncube
- Poverty and power, with CEO of the Snowdrop Project, Rachel Medina
- Conclusion and reflection: Where next?
- Plus 1:1 coaching, small group discussions, and weekly reflections.
The course lasts 6 weeks and features:
- A weekly online session (for 1.5 hours) with experts, practitioners and theologians to help you learn, reflect, practise, and grow.
- An hour of 1:1 support with a life coach
- Time for discussion and prayer in small groups with others with shared passions on a similar journey.
- A short weekly reflection for you to listen to, to stimulate your thinking ahead of the weekly online session.
The course is facilitated by:
Beth Saunders, Training Director & Ops Manager of the Praxis Centre for Hope and Activism
Thobekile Ncube, development practitioner, Tearfund trainer and Praxis Labs Facilitator
Rich Gower, Executive Director of the Praxis Centre for Hope and Activism
The course has helped in giving me confidence to use my voice for those things that I’m passionate about.
Gary Woods
The course has really inspired me to live more justly, and every session spoke to me in so many ways.
Peace Ashenafi
A note about cost
Each lab costs approximately £130* per person for us to run, but our first priority is to inspire and equip you, so we operate a ‘pay as you can’ model to ensure that no-one is excluded.
We suggest that each person makes an initial £20 contribution when they confirm their place, and there is then an opportunity to make a further contribution at the end of the course if you are able to. In the past people have…
- Given smaller amounts, when they have limited means
- Covered the full cost of their place
- Given twice the cost of a place, to help cover costs for those with limited means.
If you would like to make an initial contribution now, you can find our PayPal link at the bottom of the page.
If a £20 initial contribution is a barrier for you, just drop us a line – you can send an email here.
*(Just in case you’re interested, our cost estimate includes professional 1:1 life coaching for participants; course facilitation; IT subscriptions for Zoom, Google Drive, and our website; accountancy and legal filing requirements; and various other overheads.)
You can also send a message to beth@praxiscentre.org to let us know you’re interested.
Love having the guest speakers. Really rich content. Podcast great to listen to alongside. Brilliant resources, really thought provoking. The sequencing of sessions flows really well. Really personal rather than just conceptual. The small group element was great. Will definitely be recommending.
Sam & Helen Taylor
It was great to finally connect with many like-minded Christians who are passionate and serious about activism. It was really encouraging to hear the many different stories. I really enjoyed all the interviews. The opportunity to have time with a life coach also really attracted me to this course.
Ida Rootham
Why Praxis?
The Praxis Labs 1 course has been informed by interviews with more than one hundred inspiring activists, as recorded in The Hopeful Activists Podcast, Tearfund’s experience of movement-building around the world, and Futurekraft’s experience of social action in the UK.