The course, entitled "Preventive System: Insight, Update and Proposals", will last a year and stems from the desire to offer its participants a reflection and skills that characterise Salesian educative and pastoral leadership, integrating previously acquired levels of formation. The goal is to move towards an integrated approach to high-level European Salesian formation, seeking synergies between the experiences and reflections present in international contexts.
Today's societies are experiencing increasingly rapid change and Educative and Pastoral Communities need greater energy to respond to emerging needs. In the Salesian context, there is an increasingly urgent need to improve the quality of the Salesian style of leadership, which allows each member of the community to feel an integral part of the Salesian educational mission and which, at the same time, promotes responsibility, a spirit of initiative and effective collaboration among all the members of the Educative and Pastoral Community.
The purpose of the course is to form leaders, lay and consecrated Salesians, qualified to conduct processes of discernment, animation and educative and pastoral and formative coordination with criteria of the Salesian charism in a work or in a sector of the Salesian mission.
Specifically, the course promoters identify the following as their main objectives:
- Generate space for exchange and learning among those responsible for Salesian works regarding the challenges posed by local situations and institutional management.
- Deepen the basic concepts of the Preventive System organised on the dimension of history, spirituality and Salesian pedagogy;
- Provide contextualised formation tools based on the professional and charismatic situations of Salesian institutions.
- Improve management skills in design, communication, teamwork, leadership, conflict resolution and formation courses for Salesians and lay people.
The course is aimed at educators of Salesian presences in Europe who are called to develop national, provincial or local leadership in the formation of educatiove and pastoral agents; to access it you must present a letter of assignment from your Salesian Provincial and be in possession of a first level university degree.
The course includes moments of individual activation, group discussion and a final discussion on what has been learned, to urge updating and contextualization. The methodology will include: in-person teaching activities on the UPS campus, lasting a total of three working weeks (one in September 2024, one in February 2025 and the last in July 2025); two intermediate online learning sessions (between October and December and between February and April); asynchronous distance learning activities, through the use of IT supports and dedicated UPS platforms; and a final work related to the updating of the Quote System in the work context of the participant's competence.
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Source: Unisal
