GSP Link Persons’
Workshop was held at Good Shepherd Convent Rosary Hall, Quezon city Philippines on
August 25-27, 2017 with an attendance of 17 Sisters & 19 Lay Mission
Partners. The theme is on” Understanding Co-responsibility and Leadership
Style” as a capacity building formation for the community link persons of GSP.
On
the first day, the participants tackled their understanding of
co-responsibility or partnership as personally lived and witnessed by the
mission partners in their communities. There were 6 groupings of 7 members
each. Mounted on each table were the group names as followed: “Fist Bump, Hash
Tag, Kita
Kita, Gets Kita, Swak na Swak and Ayos Na.”
The
second day opened with the meditation on “Winds of Change” video. Ken Villaruz,
the resource person and consultant on module making, introduced the learning
activity: “ Air Ball Processing” which displayed the interaction of
participants and highlighted the differences, diversity in peoples’ thinking
and ways. The game showed the challenge
of working together, to integrate and actively engaged for good result.
Conclusion: Integrate our hearts, minds and spirit to enliven the Good Shepherd
Mission. This became the introduction to the theories of Spiral Dynamics and the Four
Quadrants.
At
noon, the participants heard the pleas of the displaced Lumad students and teachers
to help “Save
Our Schools,” due to the harassment, discrimination and killings of leaders
suffered by the indigenous peoples, worsened by the President’s declaration of
Martial Law in the whole Mindanao. This
was a significant grounding on the
changing realities of our time.
The
group continued with the painting exercise to express the culture of the
individual and the group. They shared the process and meaning behind their
painting which highlighted for them the significance of Spiral Dynamics to know
who and where they were at, as well as, to understand the diversity of how people
thought and acted, much needed in leadership training.
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Sunday
activity focused on understanding the 4 Quadrants, with each group answering
the questionnaire (introduced by Gendrie Klein Breteler in the GSAPP
Conference.) The group ended with appropriate and inspiring biblical
quotations. Finding one’s leadership
style through the individual responses to the leadership style questionnaire
showed the mission partners as mostly on the interactive and creative style
while it was good to have a few but solid mission partners on the methodical and practical side. Each link person wrote their responses on an
evaluation of the local GSP. The workshop ended with the closing
video prayer “We Are One.”
Recommendation by the GSP link persons: Celebrate GS Partnership on the week of August 19, the feast of St. John Eudes, because of his
strong orientation to women, in listening to them, in establishing religious
community of the Refuge, Our Lady of Charity and for his special devotion to
Mary and to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
GSP General Assembly would be on November 12-14, 2017 at
Mary ridge, Tagaytay City.