Ten participants, both Salesians and lay people, under the guidance of two trainers, Aleksandra Stankiewicz and Fr Maciej Makuła SDB, spent more than 25 hours learning the ins and outs of filming, taking photos, editing, scriptwriting, creating stand-ups, publishing material and many other skills - all using their own mobile phones.

Exercises in taking a variety of shots, placing subjects in strong points, searching for colours, editing and storytelling with images, brought the workshop participants into the professional space of communication from hour to hour. Perhaps the dream of becoming a digital missionary on a digital continent has been born in many hearts and heads.

For the Salesian world, the ability to communicate professionally is an essential tool for education and evangelisation. The founder of the Salesian Congregation, St John Bosco, tirelessly used means of social communication appropriate to his time and recommended this to his sons. Today we are reaching for the most modern tools, including artificial intelligence.

The Don Bosco Mobile Journalism workshops are organised by the Social Communication Sector of the Salesian General House in Rome. In the last year, they have been held in a number of countries in Africa and Asia, and in December 2024, for the first time, in Europe. And this is not the last sentence of this story - in autumn the MoJo workshop will return to Poland, also to the Cracow Province, but about that another time...

Fr Dariusz Bartocha SDB,
Salesian Delegate for Social Communication in PLS

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