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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
Note: This is a reflection from one of the participants of the Workshop on Communal Discernment and Ignatian Decision Making. Mr. John Bilog is a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila Senior High School.
My experience at WISL 2 was like that of a refugee being taken in by the openness and hospitality of strangers with a shared mission.
I would first like to share a bit about my context before I headed to the mountains of Antipolo for this week-long workshop. The K-12 education reform has cast my school community out of what we considered our home as far back as we could remember. New structures had to be established to meet the demands of a changing landscape initiated by our government, and these came with a steep price. Longstanding traditions were uprooted, familiar practices were displaced, and all our comfort zones were stripped away. Adjusting has been harder for us who have been with the school for a longer time, as we hold more memories and feel more sentiment towards how we were as a community in the now seemingly distant past. Our administration has held sessions on transition management and venues for feedback. But more and more of us have become concerned and ask about decisions that were made as we go along the way. (more…)
The Ignatian Initiative for Teaching Excellence (IGNITE) is now ready to offer the follow-up to our first Workshop on Ignatian School Leadership (WISL), “Nurturing the Contemplative-in-Action Within.” The second workshop will be held from April 17 to 21 in Tagaytay, Philippines at the Good Shepherd Religious Formation Center, Antipolo, Metro Manila, Read more…
The AITP Kamakura experience began with John Gilles warmly welcoming the participants to the workshop. He is Riverview’s Director of Religious Formation and the head facilitator of the Australian team conducting AITP (Advanced Ignatian Teacher Program) workshop.
