Fellow’s Profile
Andrea Smith
Fellow’s Profile
Andrea Smith
The development of inner-city children through school camps
Fellowship
Themes
Countries
Fellowship year
2004
Locality
London
Biography
I am now an ordained interfaith minister, independent civil celebrant and ceremonialist.
My Fellowship was about Native American pedagogy in teaching wilderness skills and deep nature connection to urban children. This led to a wider appreciation of community building, peace-making and personal development, informed primarily by the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace.
As a result of my Fellowship I inaugurated an immersive event for outdoors' facilitators, which in turn led to a UK-wide nature and culture network. This has positively and immensely impacted the UK outdoors education sector over the years.
I gained the confidence to undertake a Bachelor's degree and was awarded First Class Honours after a comprehensive dissertation that distilled the learning of my Fellowship.
I continued my friendship with an Odawa teacher and assisted in running condolence ceremonies – community grief-witnessing rituals – in Germany over several years. This inspired my entering an interfaith seminary for a two-year spiritual inquiry that culminated in my ordination in 2019.
The Fellowship directly led me to my current ministry of cultural repair through the power of love – I'm so very grateful.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.