Life at Saint Anselm

Greatly enhancing its experiential and academic study courses is Saint Anselm’s Multi-Cultural Living Community, a unique teaching/learning laboratory. Within this vibrant milieu, the participant interprets and develops — according to the context of his or her own culture and spirituality — all that he or she learns in class.

Here students discover for themselves that underneath our individual uniqueness, we have the same emotions, pains and pleasures as everyone else. The barriers of surface differences, our features, languages and personal beliefs, soon melt into an enrichment of living and relationship that continues throughout one’s life. The Community is noted for the striking warmth offered equally to all who come to study or visit.

Being a part of Saint Anselm’s multi-cultural community offers you a unique opportunity to appreciate and value cultures and ways of community other than your own. Here you will directly experience how community can enhance personal development. Relationship building is fostered in the daily situation of praying, learning, relaxing and living together within this international community. The multi-cultural community provides an opportunity to practise constructive communication where truly listening and absorbing is of paramount concern in forming vibrant, growth-producing relationships. The inherent struggles in unifying your spiritual life with your secular life will be addressed through this daily interface. During your time here, you will be given an opportunity to be a community leader under supervision.