The Continuing Indaba Project now has a presence on the internet, with a special page on the Anglican Communion website. The goal is to promote “conversation across difference and upon a diversity of cultural insights to energise local and global mission.” Using this model of appreciative listening, the hope is that trust and relationships can be built across the Anglican Communion.
The Anglican Communion News Service says:
The arrival of Continuing Indaba on the Internet as part of the Anglican Communion web site makes visible the preparatory work already in hand for the series of pilot conversations between dioceses from different parts of the Communion to take place during 2010 and 2011.
Visitors to the new site will find an outline of the project,, which explains its origins as located within an African conversational method for resolving real or potential conflict through mutual listening and debate. The process emerges from the Indaba-style format used at the 2008 Lambeth Conference which is now being expanded to enhance the world-wide Anglican Communion in its quest to intensify relationships in the cause of shared mission.
These pages carry news of the initial series of ‘hub’ meetings around the world during late 2009 and early 2010 whose remit is to develop resources which can guide and inform the model conversations between participants from dioceses from across the world.
There is also a growing library of the resource papers generated from and through the ‘hubs’ in order to make them as widely available as possible for those wishing to follow the development of the Continuing Indaba conversations planned for 2010 and 2011. This library will expand and grow as the project develops in the hope that a growing and continuous process of conversation will be ignited throughout the Anglican Communion.
It is intended that the Continuing Indaba web presence will carry reports from each stage of the project and specifically from each of the pilot conversations as they are planned and take place. It will become a universally-accessible resource, not only for those participating or taking an interest in the programme of events planned for the next two years, but also for those who may be inspired by the project to embark on their own journeys of conversation across the Communion, and who may in turn be able to contribute their own resources and stories to the site.
See the site here.