Kutno-Woźniaków, Poland – November 2024 – A meeting of Salesians in their Quinquennium from all four Polish Provinces took place from 21 to 23 November at Kutno-Woźniaków, in the Province of Piła (PLN). This time it was a workshop on the theme “Support Skills Training” which was led by Fr Janusz Kamiński, SDB, psychologist and psychotherapist, and Anna Ciesielska, theologian, psychotherapist and logotherapist. The workshop helped answer some questions regarding the contacts that the Salesians have with other people, when very often they experience a series of emotions, questions and doubts: "Is the way we help and accompany people correctly?" "Do we know the tools to help and how do we contact the other person and also protect our mental health?" "Let's consider who asks us for help and what kind of personality they are?" Overall, the workshop covered the following topics: support for individual contact - basic contact tools; basic notions to understand people in difficulty based on diagnostic criteria; how to deal with what I feel. There was also a panel that covered different issues related to the central theme of the meeting, questions and an analysis of different cases.

Photo: Fr Łukasz Wójcik, SDB