Our Work

‘Sharing Our Lives’ is an interfaith led educational project providing a range of learning tools for young people with special emphasis on:

• Lesson plans,
• Teacher’s Notes
• Printed and Digital Resources

The tools are designed to build understanding of a particular faith community that is different from the one hosting the learning. In this way the programme helps to create and maintain respectful and meaningful relationships between young people from different communities. The primary aim of the project is not based on theology or traditional inter-faith dialogue, but rather on how young people of different faiths live their lives, drawing out the commonalities as well as the differences.

Our unique approach here is to work with and in religious supplementary schools, thus giving the learning a sense of religious sanction and approval. Sharing Our Lives organisers and facilitators work with teachers, trainers and students from Muslim madrassas, Christian Sunday schools and Hindu and Sikh schools to co-create, test and refine these tools into quality products. The resources are further disseminated online for wider use.

Sharing Our Lives is currently developing tools to measure changes in understanding, attitude and behaviour, thus gauging the impact and benefit of our work. Over time, and through our collective experience, skills and knowledge.

A Message From

Sharing Our Lives

Thank you for visiting the Sharing Our Lives website.

Our motivation to conduct this project, is to;

1. help create, maintain and establish Friendship between people of different beliefs, sects and traditions and with those with no religious affiliation.
2. help instil a sense of wonder, respect and value towards people with a different belief to themselves, their family and community.
3. help create bridges of understanding, cooperation and action in, between and across people and communities with different beliefs and practise.

In doing so, we hope to help to remove the fear of people who are different and to promote active and positive participation in society. We want to celebrate the life we have and the possibility it gives us to learn and grow spiritually, and in doing so serve humanity, respect nature and gives thanks to that which binds us together.

Our next steps are:

From this pre-pilot stage,

• we have gained greater knowledge of creating e.g. lessons plans and resources (products) that communicate the benefits of interfaith dialogue and action,
• we have acquired some skills and abilities to train and support teachers and others to use the products wisely.
• we have established a meaningful partnership that has a shared vision and sense of purpose.
• we have worked with care and have made effort to ensure everyone feels comfortable with the content and subject matter, and give our sincere apology for any oversight or error  

We are planning,

• to make applications for funding for a pilot project that includes increasing the number of subject areas, improving the quality of presentation, marketing and promoting our work, delivering “train the trainer” workshops and creating a methodology and tools to evaluate our work.
• to extend our partnership with others, particularly with those who can help us make an improvement to our work, increase its outreach and help the long sustainability of our work.

Thank you.