Training

GRASSROOTS offers a range of training opportunities including, but not limited to:

  • Student Placements - experience in diversity and cultural/religious awareness for Social Work Students or those engaged in Ministerial Training

  • Diversity Game - a fun introduction to different faiths, adaptable for use in schools, youth groups and adult fellowships

  • Cultural and Religious Awareness - a variety of options from a short introduction to a day long orientation of a particular culture or faith

  • Inter Faith & Church Related Community Work - sharing our learning and experiences from our community engagement work of over 35 years in Luton

  • Workshops, Talks, Panel Discussions - bringing local people’s perspectives and lived experiences on topical issues & themes

Our most popular workshop in demand is:

Celebrating Difference Staying Faithful – Building Peace & Reconciliation Together with Different Faiths - Developing Communities across Faiths and Cultures

Working across faiths and cultures is mostly understood as “inter faith dialogue”; that too with learned people of certain age and gender. In this workshop, we’ll share practical examples of inter faith community work. We’ll share stories of how in a super-diverse, multi-faith, multi-cultural town Luton (UK), just north of London, where over 140 languages are spoken, Christians & people of different faiths join together to feed the hungry, to tackle digital and fuel poverty, to plant trees and create peace gardens. We’ll demonstrate how it is possible to restore justice, peace and the integrity of God’s creation, by putting our faith into action, by complementing one another and not competing against one another, by acknowledging and celebrating difference and yet staying faithful to our own religious and cultural identities. We’ll share stories of how all faith communities unite together in Luton against all extremism and on multiple occasions prevented communal riots ensuring peace & integrity of the town is held at all times and that young people are not criminalized.  It is a story of movemement towards reconciliation and unity, but not uniformity.  

Keywords of our workshop:

Ecumenical, Inter-faith, Dialogue, Justice, Peace, community work, stories, women, youth

If you would like to know more about the training we could offer you, please get in touch with us using the contact details at the bottom of the page!