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Delightful Living Weekend January 18-21, 2024

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Nancy Kelly

Enjoy this glimpse into the life of Nancy Kelly, our keynote speaker for this year's Delightful Living Weekend: "Education is.....a Life!"


2024 Delightful Living Weekend "Education Is a Life

Friday 1/19/2024

Saturday 1/20/2024

Saturday 1/20/2024

1:00pm - Gathering

St. Johns Cathedral

(Downtown Jacksonville, FL)


1:20pm - Opening

Hymn & Introductions


1:30pm - Plenary 1:

JOY: MAINSTAY OF A LIVING EDUCATION

(Nancy Kelly)


3:00 or 4:00pm - Plenary 2:

THE WELL-BALANCED MIND: THE IMAGINATION FACTOR

(Nancy Kelly)


3:00 or 4:30pm - Workshops:

  • Shakespeare Immersion w Nikki Park
  • Cathedral Stained Glass Tour w Docent
  • Solfa Immersion w Heather Johnson
  • Nature Journaling with TBD 
  • Other TBD

(attendees will pre select)


Morning Maximum 

80 Attendees


5:30pm - Dinner 

Handicraft, Activity


7:00pm - Plenary 3

(open to guests of attendees):

Coupon:  freeguest

CHARLOTTE MASON FOUNDATIONS: 

A PARADIGM SHIFT

(Nancy Kelly)


(some details are still in the works others are subject to rearrangement)  





Saturday 1/20/2024

Saturday 1/20/2024

Saturday 1/20/2024

9:00am - Gathering

St. Johns Cathedral

(Downtown Jacksonville, FL)


9:20am - Opening

Hymn &  Introductions


9:45am - Plenary 4:

TIME ENOUGH

(Nancy Kelly)


 11:15am - Breakouts

 Discussion & Handicraft


12:00pm -  Lunch

Boxed lunches - Enjoy the courtyard, Cathedral Park, or tables


1:00pm - Workshops

  • Cathedral Stained Glass Tour
  • Parenting the Young Child
  • Immersion with Angelle Price
  • Immersion with TBD
  • Other TBD


2:00pm - Gathering

Gather in Talifierro Hall

for Poetry & Swedish Drill


2:30 pm - Plenary 5:

LEARNING TO LIVE

(Nancy Kelly)


The final Plenary will be followed by a time of reflection and possibly an opportunity for a 

St. Johns River Cruise (TBD)


Maximum 

80 Attendees

Sunday 1/21/2024

Saturday 1/20/2024

Thursday 1-18-24

Please join us for worship at our 

host church, St John's Cathedral  256 East Church Street, 

Sunday morning

(Downtown Jacksonville, FL)


9:45am - Organ Prelude


10:00am - Worship Service

Choral introit, a cappella , worship, music led by the renowned Cathedral Choir and organist Timothy Tuller on the 

76-rank Austin pipe organ


11:00am - Fellowship

Post-worship fellowship with coffee in Taliafierro Hall Bishop's Garden, and Burwell Court.





Would you be willing to set up or host a post-worship meal or head up a reservation at one of our many great restaurants?


Would you be willing to lead a group to one of your favorite natural spaces here on the First Coast? 


Thursday 1-18-24

Thursday 1-18-24

Thursday 1-18-24

 Highschool Immersion


Step into the role of a student in a Charlotte Mason Highschool Experience.  Nancy will teach you (the adults) as if you were highschool students.  Then we will break for dinner and have discussion afterwards.  


Event will start at 1:00pm - 7:00pm


Location is To Be Determined


Minimum 15 students

Maximum 25 students


Nature and Art

Thursday 1-18-24

Nature and Art

St. John's River Cruise


Times and Price TBD




MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art

TBD


Explore JAXParks

TBD





Abstracts - Friday DLW 2024

Friday

JOY: MAINSTAY OF A LIVING EDUCATION

Charlotte Mason said that “joy reigns in all our schoolrooms.” Do our schools reflect this joy or do we sabotage its presence, making our homes joyless? Joy was such an important principle for a living education that a PNEU conference in 1908 had joy as its theme! Let’s explore what Mason said about joy and how the joy of knowledge and the joy of living can open the floodgates of joy from the ultimate source, Christ the joy-giver.


THE WELL-BALANCED MIND: THE IMAGINATION FACTOR

Do you value your imagination? Your child’s? This talk is an exploration of the importance of imagination in education, faith and life. Mason said that “imagination is, like faith, the evidence of things not seen” and is an integral part of everyone’s personhood. How can we nurture this in our materialistic society where testing reigns supreme?


CHARLOTTE MASON FOUNDATIONS: A PARADIGM SHIFT

Join Nancy for an introduction to Charlotte Mason, including her belief in the child as a person and her viewpoint that education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life, and the science of relations. Who was Charlotte Mason? What was her educational philosophy? Can her methods be used in high school as well as in elementary school and middle school? Drawing from her 28 years of experience using Charlotte Mason’s methods, Nancy will talk about the basics of a Charlotte Mason education and how it can transform your homeschool.



Abstracts - Saturday DLW 2024

Delightful Living Weekend Saturday Sessions

TIME ENOUGH

How did it get so late so soon? 

It’s night before it’s afternoon. 

December is here before it’s June. 

My goodness how the time has flewn

How did it get so late so soon?

-Dr. Seuss, How Did It Get So Late So Soon? 

The past few years have been hard. How have you done with the time that has been given to you? Join me as we talk about “time”, specifically looking at Mason’s references to The Discontented Pendulum and how we choose to order our minutes, days, weeks, and years. What if our exasperation about how time flies isn't a time management problem but a theological issue?


(Workshop Option) PARENTING THE YOUNG CHILD: BEST PRACTICES FROM CHARLOTTE MASON FOR A LIFE OF WONDER

Charlotte Mason said, “One of the secrets of the educator is to present nothing as stale knowledge, but to put himself in the position of the child, and wonder and admire with him; for every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.” This talk focuses on how to begin a Charlotte Mason education with the youngest of children, from birth to 6, and considers the irreplaceable role of the parent in fostering the child’s wonder and imagination. Fresh book recommendations and thoughtful discussions will be highlighted throughout the talk.


Other workshop options will include a Cathedral Stained Glass Tour, Hands on workshops for older students, TBD. 


LEARNING TO LIVE

"On my arrival at Ambleside I was interviewed by Miss Mason who asked me for what purpose I had come. I replied: ‘I have come to learn to teach.‘ Then Miss Mason said: ‘My dear, you have come here to learn to live.’ ” 

- a new student at Charlotte Mason’s teacher training college 

If you thought you were here to understand how to homeschool using this philosophy, you will soon see that Charlotte had much more in mind. What did Charlotte Mason mean by "learn to live"? How did the House of Education training teach students how to live? What patterns does Mason’s own life offer us? No matter if you are at the beginning of your homeschool journey, in the thick of it, or an empty nester, we will examine how this living philosophy is for life and not solely for homeschooling.


Pre Weekend Immersion

Highschool Immersion

HIGH SCHOOL IMMERSION Thursday January 18th 1pm-7pm

During this experience, Nancy will demonstrate methods used in a high school setting using Mason’s methods. High school is deepening and continuation of the principles and practices of Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy. Lessons that are for older students will be demonstrated and may include science, citizenship, Bible, composition, geography, picture study, literature, picture study, literature, history, math, and other subjects. Attendees experience being the student, practicing different forms of narration and sampling the banquet of ideas which brings a fuller understanding of the method. Currently, Nancy has graduated 6 of her own children using Mason’s methods and teaches many others in her CM Community – TBG Teens (The Hive). This session is 3 hours long and a 1.5 hour question and answer session will follow.


We anticipate this session to start at 1pm  - lessons 1:30-4:30 followed by dinner and Q/A, location is currently TBD   (you, the adults are the hight school students taught by Nancy)


Minimum 15 students - Maximum 25 students. 

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