Dr. Cathy Day and Mr Ernie Christie of Townsville Catholic Education in Queensland, Australia were in South Africa recently, offering a series of nine seminars titled “A Way to Peace: Teaching Meditation to Children”. The nine seminars were given between 21 September and 1 October in Durban, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and ending in Cape Town where the presenters spent a few days relaxing before returning to Australia.

At the seminars, participants were given an overview of the Townsville story and were invited to meditate together to get first-hand experience of this way of prayer. The presenters ended the seminar posing the question to all of what this introduction to meditation might mean for their personal lives and professional practice.