Richard Browning
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Richard Browning is Senior Chaplain and Director of Community at Radford College, Canberra. Among his duties is oversight of the ethos and values culture of the school and the awareness and service learning programme. He has led the schools’ partnership with a school in Timor-Leste, taking students for the last seven years under the motif “never to, not for, but with”. His most recent work has been as director of the College’s Centre for Values, Ethics, Compassion. Called Dirrum Dirrum, the chief work has been the student led annual conference that in 2015 hosted over 1000 delegates – the purpose being to engage and inspire people in the art of being and staying human. An activist of the imagination, storyteller and priest, Richard’s chief work is the provocation of another’s imagination and the promotion of a flourishing that increases the flourishing of others.
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About Richard's Keynote:
Wrestling the right giant - a cultural approach to serving the common good
The invisible score of our cultural song sheet pronounces the primacy of the individual above all – we sing solo, not in choirs, and can still ignore the off sounds of a flawed premise. Our starting point is usually first person, the motivation good intentions: ‘I just want to make a difference’. These plus other assumptions and false premises need to be challenged and will be, through the use of story, myth, case study, philosophical inquiry, a little wrestling and the odd giant. There are endless ways to go about the only way that is needed: serving the common good. There will be more self-examination and less self-justification; more listening to and less doing for; more consciousness of the other’s increase and less in our own.
The invisible score of our cultural song sheet pronounces the primacy of the individual above all – we sing solo, not in choirs, and can still ignore the off sounds of a flawed premise. Our starting point is usually first person, the motivation good intentions: ‘I just want to make a difference’. These plus other assumptions and false premises need to be challenged and will be, through the use of story, myth, case study, philosophical inquiry, a little wrestling and the odd giant. There are endless ways to go about the only way that is needed: serving the common good. There will be more self-examination and less self-justification; more listening to and less doing for; more consciousness of the other’s increase and less in our own.
| i_just_.pdf |
| beyond_good_intentions.pdf |
| f_learner_.pdf |
| maundy_thursday_kenosis.pdf |
