ALL THINGS IGNATIAN IN EDUCATION

This year the Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific Education secretariat offered our educators in the region two brand new workshops. The first was an IPP workshop called LEARNING BY REFRACTION, held last September at Seven Fountains Retreat Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand; and the second one is the just-completed LEADERSHIP BY CONVERSATION at St. Ignatius College, Riverview, Australia.

The workshop brought together a total of 26 participants from Hong Kong, Macau, the Philippines, and the biggest contingent from Indonesia. The new workshop focused on the ministry of Ignatian conversation and weds it with Growth Coaching, using such tools as the MBTI and best practices on feedback giving.

Group photo of EVERYBODY on the final day (This was the nth phone camera used!) (more…)

Coming up is a new module for IGNITE’s leadership stream, Workshop on Ignatian School Leadership (WISE) called LEADERSHIP BY CONVERSATIONS. LEADERSHIP BY CONVERSATION seeks to integrate the insights of Ignatian Spirituality and Growth Coaching. One of the Foundational Insights of Read more…

“Our language and culture might be different, but what mattered most is the emotional connection we had in the ISLF. This allowed us to be more open to cross our borders” That was how Yohana Pegas Syane, a student leader from Gonzaga College (Jakarta) described the recently concluded 4th Ignatian Student Leadership Forum in Japan.

The delegates and the organizing team in the obligatory group photo

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Sixteen educators from our four high schools in Japan and Sophia University completed the workshop on Ignatian leadership held from the 3rd of August to the 7th. The workshop was conducted at the Jesuit Retreat House in Kamakura, Japan, with attendees from Eiko Gakuen High School (Kamakura), Roko Gakuin High School (Kobe), Hiroshima Gakuin High School, Sophia Fukuoka High School, and Sophia University (Tokyo).

Fr. Johnny Go SJ with Fr. Lee Sung-il SJ and the participants of the leadership workshop pose for a photo on the last day. Photograph courtesy of Paul Isaka, who took this picture.

Facilitated by JCAP Education Secretary, Fr. Johnny Go, the workshop, aptly called “Leadership by Discernment,” dealt with Ignatian discernment, with the first three days focused on individual  discernment while the remaining time was spent on communal discernment. It was an experience customized for our colleagues in Japan, based on two IGNITE leadership workshops that have been offered the past years in Asia Pacific

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From left to right: Johnny Go (JCAP Education Secretary), Eric Velandria (JCAP Socius), Bert Boholst (East Timor), Sumio Takahashi (Japan), Tony Moreno (JCAP President), Rich McAuliff (Micronesia), Tom Renshaw (Australia), Quyen Vu (Cambodia), Stephen Chow (Chinese Province), Baskoro Poedjinogroho (Indonesia), and Ari Dy (Philippines).

From May 10 to 14, the education delegates from eight  provinces and regions in Asia Pacific congregated in Kolese Gonzaga, Jakarta for their annual meeting: Frs. Tom Renshaw SJ (Australia), Quyen Vu SJ (Cambodia), Stephen Chow SJ (Chinese Province), Bert Boholst SJ (East Timor), Baskoro Poedjinogroho SJ (Indonesia), Rich McAuliff SJ (Micronesia), and Ari Dy SJ (Philippines). Representing the Japanese Province was Mr. Sumio Takahashi from Rokko Gakuin High School. Fr. Adrian Danker SJ (Malaysia-Singapore) was unfortunately unable to join them due to a pressing commitment.

The education secretaries were also joined by the new Jesuit Asia Pacific Conference President, Fr. Tony Moreno SJ, and his socius, Fr. Eric Velandria SJ. (more…)