Program
This Education Conference focuses on responding to the challenge to be companions in a mission of Reconciliation and Justice as was asked of us in GC36 D1. To share in this renewed mission, Decree 2 of GC36 outlined a renewed governance by which this mission can be undertaken. Discernment, collaboration and networking offer three important perspectives on our contemporary way of proceeding. As the Society of Jesus is an “international and multicultural body” in a complex, “fragmented and divided world, attention to these perspectives helps to streamline governance and make it more flexible and apostolically effective.
GC 36, D.2#3
Objectives:
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Address the Province Bookend priorities: concerns for Australia’s First Nations peoples and for the country’s most recent arrivals, Asylum Seekers and Refugees.
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Find ways in which Ignatian Spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises can be actively adapted to the school setting so that students learn the habit of stillness and the practice of discernment.
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Nurture the established JACSA Professional Learning Communities.
Day 1: Wednesday: Our History
7.30
8.45
9.00
9.15
9.20
9.30
10.15
11.00
12.00
12.15
1.00
2.00
2.25
2.35
2.50
3.00
3.25
3.35
3.50
4.15
4.40
4.50
5.15
Registration
Welcome to Country - Mr John Lochowiak
Opening prayer
Welcome - Mr Peter Coffey
Introduction - Mrs Kathleen Upfold
Address by Provincial - Fr Brian McCoy SJ
Morning tea
Key note address - Fr Frank Brennan SJ
"The History of Refugees and Asylum Seekers and First Nations People in Australia and could Ignatian Spirituality contribute to this conversation?"
Individual reflection
Plenary
Lunch
Ignatian Discernment - Fr Ross Jones SJ
Individual Reflection
Question and Answer
Break
The Refugee Situation - Mr Nishadh Rego
Individual Reflection
Question and Answer
Afternoon Tea
Engaging with the Australian Culture - Mr Shawn Andrews
Individual Reflection
Question and Answer
Cocktail Function – Sponsored by Sevenhill Cellars
Free Time – Own Dinner
Day 2: Thursday Our Present
Prayer
Synthesiser
Key note address - Ms Barbara Watkins
"How do you translate Mission into action?"
Individual Reflection Time
Plenary
Morning tea
Professional Learning Community Meetings
(JACSA Principals and Rectors, Key leaders of teaching and Learning, Junior School Heads, Ignatian Coordinators, RE Coordinators, Immersion/Service Coordinators, Co-curricular Coordinators, Sustainability Coordinators, Well-being Coordinators)
Lunch
Professional Learning Community Meetings
Afternoon Tea
Professional Learning Community Meetings
Break
Conference Mass
Conference Dinner (Adelaide Oval) Dinner Speaker -
Bishop Greg O’Kelly SJ
Dress: Smart Casual
8.30
8.45
9.00
9.45
10.00
10.30
11.00
1.00
2.00
2.45
3.00
3.45
4.00
6.00
Day 3: Our Future
8.45
9.00
9.15
10.00
10.30
11.45
12.15
12.30
Prayer
Synthesiser
Address by JEA - Fr Thomas Renshaw SJ
Morning tea
School groups
Feedback and Evaluations
Final blessing and Commissioning
Lunch/ Buses to airport