Encounter
Encounter invites you to connect intellectually, emotionally and intuitively across a broad spectrum of topics. The program regularly reflects on the religious experience of multicultural Australia, giving access to voices and experiences that are not often heard in the mainstream media. The series producer is Florence Spurling. Encounter is well known for its high production standards and has won a number of local and international awards. Encounter is published every Sunday.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
2009-11-15 Corporate Social Responsibility
Published: 2009-11-14 09:00:00As the global financial crisis reverberates, this week Encounter explores how the seven deadly sins have been responsible for the collapse of many big businesses. What are the ethical frameworks some CEOs and educators are advocating now to form socially and environmentally responsible corporations?
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2009-11-08 Gearing up - for the Parliament of the World's Religions
Published: 2009-11-07 09:00:00In December the Parliament of the World's Religions is coming to Australia. It's a sort of interfaith Olympics, with thousands of people representing all the worlds myriad religious faiths expected to gather in Melbourne - under the sponsorship of the Victorian Government. In Encounter Nasya Bahfen finds out about the Parliament, and tests her prejudices about the whole interfaith project.
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2009-11-01 Give Sorrow Words: cancer and communication
Published: 2009-10-31 10:00:00This Encounter is about the importance of sensitive communication with cancer patients and their families. The program features Brisbane psychiatrist Dr Jane Turner and her cutting edge educational work with nurses in cancer wards. We also hear from men and women who are experiencing cancer for themselves or their loved ones. Their stories give grief the words to support the 'o´er-fraught heart'. Download extended interview Dr Noel Preston [23:44min 11MB] Read transcript as pdf file. Dr Jane Turner [43:18min 20MB] Read transcript as pdf file.
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2009-10-25 Caring for the Soul of the Country
Published: 2009-10-24 10:00:00The sound of the digeridu, or Yidaki as it's known in North East Arnhem Land, has been adopted as a symbolic part of Australian culture. But how well do non-Indigenous Australians understand the spirituality of traditional Aboriginal music and its centrality to wellbeing? This Encounter travels from Darwin to North East Arnhem Land to attend the 10th Garma Festival of Traditional Culture. Held in Yolgnu country on the Gove Peninsula, it draws together over 1,000 people to watch, perform and celebrate traditional culture. Caring for the Soul of the Country examines the idea of cultural practice as central to wellbeing -- spiritual, social and physical. It looks in particular at ceremony -- a sacred crucible of the broader practice of 'caring for country' -- as vaccination against illness of the spirit and of the body. And it asks if a clearer understanding of the centrality of 'caring for country' might affect government policy on social provisions for Aboriginal communities. Note: The music in this program was performed by singers from the Gumatj, Maugn, Anindilyakwa and Kuninjku clans. Special Audio Downloads Download MP3 An extended interview with Tom Calma, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner.
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