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.
