Posts Tagged ‘School leadership’

Adrian Pyle gives a summary of the recent “Building a Brave Space: Engaging with First Peoples’ Truth” event, where around 60 Year 6-8 students from four schools spent a day at Wesley Place hearing from Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria and Uniting Church speakers before pitching their own ideas for building understanding and belonging.

A reflection for school boards on a hard question: where does belonging start, and does it really depend on what someone has proved they can contribute?

Adrian Pyle asks what changes when church-school relationships move from “what are we required to do?” to “we belong to each other, so what becomes possible?”

Director of Chaplaincy and Connections, Adrian Pyle, reflects on governance through the metaphor of keyholding, considering how every decision a board makes unlocks certain possibilities while closing others.

Director of Chaplaincy and Connections, Adrian Pyle, reflects on five themes from Rev Stuart Bollom’s closing theological reflection at the Uniting Connections Conference.

Director of Chaplaincy and Connections, Adrian Pyle, reflects on five ideas he and Jamie Breden (Head of Faith and Community at Scotch Oakburn College) explored at the Uniting Connections Conference.

Aitken College chaplain Rev Gavin Blakemore reports on the wonderful insights gained at the recent UCA national schools conference in Brisbane.

Reflecting on a powerful address from the recent Uniting Connections Conference, Adrian Pyle (Director of Chaplaincy and Connections) explores how we can move past seeking sameness and instead embrace diversity through the lens of grace, elegance and shared relationship.

After 17 years, schools and Synod representatives gathered for Uniting Connections 2026. The Chaplaincy and Connections team shared three threads worth bringing into school board conversations.

Director of Chaplaincy and Connections, Adrian Pyle, reflects on the imperceptible movement from simple care toward systemic justice. Drawing on a traditional Sufi tale, he invites us to see advocacy as the quiet, persistent practice of noticing and listening.