May 2017

UPCOMING WORKSHOP IN SEPTEMBER 2017

The Ignatian Initiative for Teacher Excellence (IGNITE) is happy to offer a new workshop for our educators in Asia Pacific: THE PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION FOR JESUIT EDUCATION, to be held from September 24 (Sunday) to 30 (Saturday), 2017 at Seven Fountains Spirituality Centre in Chiangmai, Thailand.

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The workshop aims to provide an overview of the history and tradition of Jesuit education and invites Ignatian educators to appreciate the personal vocation in the context of the Jesuit mission of education, as well as to appropriate the Jesuit vision for the educational apostolate—particularly, the so-called Characteristics of Jesuit Education, as well as its aims as captured by the 4 Cs (Conscience, Competence, Compassion, and Commitment).
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WORKSHOP ON COMMUNAL DISCERNMENT AND IGNATIAN DECISION MAKING

A total of 37 participants found themselves at the Good Shepherd Spirituality Center for the very first offering of the second WISL (Workshop on Ignatian School Leadership), entitled “Workshop on Communal Discernment and Ignatian Decision Making.” The participants represented schools from four countries in Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines.

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Ms. Eva Galvey of the Emmaus Center for Psycho-Spiritual Formation, longtime formator of Jesuits in the Philippine Province, collaborated with Fr. Johnny Go SJ, JCAP Education secretary, to design and offer an experience of communal apostolic discernment for the participants. The goal was to draw from this experience to find a way to add a dimension of communal discernment to the way we make decisions in our schools.

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