Matt Hanley, a world renowned public health expert, will deliver a number of keynote addresses at this heritage month’s (September) series of conferences. He holds a masters degree in public health from Emory University (Atlanta) and is the author of a recent award winning book Affirming love, avoiding AIDS, what Africa can teach the West. Matt Hanley worked for Catholic Relief Services for a number of years and during that time travelled extensively throughout Africa.
Matt will be addressing more the than 1100 learners from Catholic Schools at this years 2nd annual Reviewing the Challenges of Life&Love@Schools conference (this year themed “Bullying and Assault; Affirming dignity and respect) for learners with the title “Bullying by the powers that be” on Friday 16th September.
Learners will also be addressed by our local child protection expert Luke Lamprecht on the subject of school bullying and assault.
Another renowned international guest speaker, Jason Evert, will deliver his now world famous Romance without regret talk.
Jason Evert is a staff apologist with Catholic Answers, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Catholic faith through all forms of media. Jason earned a master’s degree in Theology, and undergraduate degrees in Counseling and Theology, with a minor in Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the author of many books including Pure Love, which challenges young people to embrace the virtue of chastity. Jason and his wife Crystalina are on the Board of Advisors for the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, and are frequent guests on radio programs throughout the United States. Their television appearances include Donahue, Fox News, BBC, WGN, and EWTN.
A youth will also share her personal story with other youth before ending the days proceedings with Holy Mass to be celebrated by Bishop William Slattery.
Many school are expressing their regret at not having booked earlier so as to be part of the exciting days events. The good news is that they and many others can participate online by receiving the full days proceedings live via u-stream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/life-love-schools-conference. (A larger venue will be the order of the day for our future heritage day conferences.)
Matt Hanley will also deliver keynote addresses to the 3rd annual adult section of the Reviewing the Challenges of Life&Love@Schools conference this year held at St Benedict’s College, Bedfordview on Saturday 17th September. His talk entitled “Conventional wisdom vs. epidemiological trends” will explore the conference’s first objective, viz. “How did we get here”, before delving into the topic of bullying and assault by local experts. These experts include Luke Lamprecht and Prof Rex van Vuuren. To close the conference we explore how to implement “best practise” so as to address the topic under discussion at the various schools. This conference is specifically aimed at parents, teachers (especially life orientation and religious instruction teachers), catechists and youth workers.
The conference is followed by an introduction seminar on Pope John Pauls II’s Theology of the Body, this year presented by a local expert Adrian d’Oliveira (Saturday evening and Sunday morning 17-18th September). This will be followed by a half-day NFP conference on Sunday afternoon where international guest speakers will deliver talks. The talks are as follows: Matt Hanley on “Reproductive health, reproductive rights and family; NFP and Chastity – the HIV risk avoiders” and Jason Evert on “Theology of the Body and NFP“. This year main theme for the rest of the NFP conference will be tackling Polycystic ovarian syndrome.
This conference is not to be missed and can be participated in no matter where in the country or world you have access to a good internet connection.
How do you know if you can view the conference live on the internet?
All you will need is a broadband internet connection (like ADSL or a good 3G connection). If you wish to test your speed then visit www.speedtest.net. If your download speed achieves a speed of 0.5 mbps or more you are fine! Then, simply go to these web pages:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/life-love-schools-conference: for the Friday and Saturday Reviewing the challenges of Life&Love@Schools conference for the youth and adults and
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/catholic-studio for the Theology of the Body and NFP conferences.
Download and promote the conference
All relevant information, posters, conference program and books can be downloaded from these links:
Youth Rally POSTER: https://www.yousendit.com/download/ZUdzbGtLZy9rUm14dnc9PQ
Friday, 16 September:
- Here is the link for the Youth Jamboree L&L:
https://download.yousendit.com/T2dmNnFCZ1BCTWxvZE1UQw
Saturday and Sunday, 17 and 18 September:
- Here is the link for POSTER 2011 L&L@schools conference for adults: https://download.yousendit.com/T2dmNnFCZ1BVVGtLSk5Vag
- Here is the link for L&L conference pamphlet and booking form: https://download.yousendit.com/T2dmNnFCZ1B6NEpFQmRVag
- Here is the link for L&L conference program: https://download.yousendit.com/T2dmNnFCZ1B3TGhDaDhUQw
- Here is the link to the POSTER for 2011 FERMASA conference: https://www.yousendit.com/download/ZUdzSU5KTlE1UjZ4dnc9PQ
- Here is the link for FERMASA 2011 conference (TOB and NFP) pamphlet and Booking form: https://download.yousendit.com/T2djdFdRYTJRWUlLSk1UQw
- Here is the link for FERMASA 2011 conference (TOB and NFP) program: https://download.yousendit.com/T2djdFdRYTIwZ2xnRXNUQw
Here is the link for Matt Hanley write-up:
https://download.yousendit.com/T2djdFdRYTJEbUp1a3NUQw
Here is the link for Jason Evert write-up:
https://download.yousendit.com/T2dmNnFGT01lM1NKUmNUQw
Here is the link for available Books and DVDs:
https://download.yousendit.com/T2dmNnFGT010QTJwSHNUQw
Matt Hanley’s latest book The Catholic Church & the Global AIDS Crisis , other important reading material and past conference DVD’s will be available at the heritage month series of conferences.
