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The Tools 4 Trialogue (T4T) Educational Programme facilitates encounters between 14-25 year old Muslims, Christians, and Jews (mainly) in Colleges, Schools (including twinning faith schools), and universities using religious texts with specific themes, including equality, beauty, rebellion, etc. Our programme also includes a text-art-action component

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  • Community Support & Development Community Support & Development
  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Religious Religious
  • Other Other
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other

    Situation

    Tools 4 Trialogue is a workshop based on reading and discussing passages from Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures, and it is specially designed for secondary schools, colleges, and universities. It engages participants interactively in the study of different religious texts simultaneously on a theme topical and relevant to their lives. This approach highlights the varieties of interpretation that become possible when religious texts are discussed openly. The participants are encouraged to read the texts in pairs or in a group and to ask questions of each other. The workshop is run by skilled and dynamic facilitators of the three Abrahamic faiths. Workshops can be tailored to suit the needs of each school through liaising with the Education Officer. Now more than ever young people should engage with people of other faiths in order to understand their different perspectives. We facilitate these encounters with sensitivity and care in all types of secondary schools and sixth form colleges. Every school is now obligated by law to cover material on different religions and the relations between them, and Tools 4 Trialogue workshops can be run as part of the RE or Citizenship curriculum, or as a General Studies programme. The workshop can be held as a series of four sessions, or as a one-off workshop to be followed up during the year by a different kind of event. Many students find that their time at university is a time when they are most likely to meet people of faiths other than their own. Whilst in some universities there is much interfaith dialogue amongst students to be celebrated, this is not the case in all for a host of reasons. Tools 4 Trialogue serves as a springboard for students forming their own Three Faith Forum or interfaith groups and helps them running Trialogue events in the future. For this, we would initially send an experienced facilitator, after which the students themselves can conduct future sessions. Partnerships In order to promote Tools for Trialogue we are working with a variety of organisations and individuals across the three Abrahamic faiths to ensure its success and support from a wide base within the religious communities. Tools 4 Trialogue is based on the practice of Scriptural Reasoning (SR), which brings Jews, Christians and Muslims together to ‘reason’, grapple and think about their texts together in an open and nonjudgemental atmosphere. SR is now being held at various places across London, where citizens use the practice to think through issues concerning their religious identities and how these can relate to being at the same time citizens and neighbours. Building on the success of T4T in schools, it is now being expanded to become a model for deep conflict transformation on a local level. Where Trialogue works, it shows ways to work through difficulties we might have in daily live, and opens up ways of acting together.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Community Support & Development Community Support & Development
  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Religious Religious
  • Other Other
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other