From the 18th to the 27th of December 2017, 33 scholastics and brothers in formation from the Asia Pacific region gathered on the campus of Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu for the annual SBC (Scholastics and Brothers’ Circle) workshop. The workshop was graciously hosted by Fr. Manny Uy SJ, the SHS-AdC School President, who was present every single day to ensure that the event proceeded smoothly and that the participants were well taken care of.
This report is written by John Gilles of St. Ignatius, Riverview Australia, one of the lead facilitators of the recently held Ignatian Teacher Program (or ITP) in Sydney, Australia. It’s the third–and last–of the workshops offered by JCAP’s IGNITE (Ignatian Initiative for Teacher Excellence) this year.
The 2017 Ignatian Teacher Program, held last November 12 to 17, was a meeting of hearts and minds.
Drawing together senior educators and administrators from the Asia Pacific region, delegates from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Philippines, China and Taiwan travelled to Sydney, Australia for two core purposes: First, to encourage dialogue between significant educational trends, Ignatian Spirituality and Ignatian Pedagogy,; secondly, to contribute to the invigoration of Jesuit Education within the framework of the global network of Jesuit secondary educational institutions
ITP 2017!
We are happy to announce the calendar of Ignatian staff formation workshops that we will be offering to our administrators and teachers this coming year under the IGNATIAN INITIATIVE FOR TEACHER EXCELLENCE of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific.
That seems to have been the predominant sentiment as a total of 35 Ignatian educators completed their one-week workshop at Seven Fountains Retreat Centre on the 30th of September 2017.
All the participants of the Workshop on the Principle and Foundation of Jesuit Education at Seven Fountains Retreat Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand
The third and final IGNITE workshop this year for Jesuit schools in Asia Pacific is the IGNATIAN TEACHERS PROGRAM (formerly, AITP), a module that has been offered for the past years by our team of Ignatian educators from St. Ignatius, Riverview, Sydney, Australia. The ITP will be held in 2017 at Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview, in Sydney, Australia from the 12th (arrival) to the 18th of November (departure).
A brand new workshop on Jesuit education will be held from September 24 to 30 in Seven Fountains Retreat Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand. This introductory workshop, called the “Principle and Foundation of Jesuit Education,” is being co-designed and will be facilitated by Fr. Chris Gleeson SJ of Australia, Fr. Stephen Chow SJ of Hong Kong, and Fr. Johnny Go SJ of the Philippines.
The EDUCATE MAGIS map of the global network of Jesuit schools
From 29 August to 01 September 2017, the education delegates of Asia Pacific gathered in Kingsmead Centre of Spirituality and Counseling in Singapore for their annual education secretaries’ meeting.
Here are the winners of the recently concluded MAGIS Mannequin Challenge in a global celebration of the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola!
BEST IN ASIA PACIFIC
SACRED HEART SCHOOL – ATENEO DE CEBU
(CEBU, PHILIPPINES)
After the immensely successful SFX GLOBAL NETWORK INSTAGRAM COMPETITION last December 3rd, 2016, here’s another global way for our schools to celebrate an important feast!
To celebrate the coming Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola in a truly global way, Educate Magis presents to you the GLOBAL MAGIS MANNEQUIN CHALLENGE! All Jesuit schools are invited to join! (more…)
These reflections are from participant, Mr. Jerome To of Wah Yan College Hong Kong, and facilitators, Fr. Stephen Chow SJ of Hong Kong and Ms. Jennie Hickey of Sydney, Australia.
From the evening of May 21st (Sunday) to lunch on the 24th (Friday), 31 Jesuit and lay educators congregated at the Kingsmead Centre of Ignatian Spirituality and Counseling in Singapore for the first-ever meeting of Chaplains and Campus Ministers of Jesuit schools in Asia Pacific.
The participants evidently happy and pumped for the meeting.
