Conversation, Accompaniment, Discernment, Co-Navigation, Co-Creation as a Process of Program Development for Evangelization in Liceo De San Pedro Calungsod Mission School
Date of Award
5-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts major in Theological Studies
First Advisor
Marie-Paul de Luna, PhD
Abstract
Pope Francis reminds the Church that the call to evangelization is to allow the Gospel message to shed light on a people’s deep questions regarding the meaningfulness of life in their context and culture. Recognizing how Catholic schools inevitably dialogue with communities and engage the Catholic culture to dialogue with other cultures, it is thus the thrust of the Diocese of Masbate that Catholic school teachers be empowered for evangelization.
This pastoral project, therefore, develops a program that helps teachers craft a context-based evangelization program for the Catholic schools in the Diocese of Masbate. By employing methodologies from Organizational Development (OD), particularly the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) philosophy and SOAR methodology, teachers engage in conversations that generate deeper meaning and new possibilities, identities, relationships, and culture. It is through conversations, dialogue, and collaboration that people bring forth a world. When teachers discover God in whatever is meaningful, they seek to become part of God’s ongoing redemptive work in their communities by adding energy to what is already creating life in the world. With Liceo de San Pedro Calungsod Mission School in Brgy. Sto. Niño, Cataingan as a prototype, this project developed a “program for evangelization program development” that focuses on the process more than the output for replicability in other schools of similar context. In an interweaving process of conversation, accompaniment, discernment, co-navigation, and co-creation, the teachers underwent spiritual formation and capacity development through a program that is process- oriented, context-based, and culture-conscious.
Recommended Citation
Paul Richard, Dy G., (2022). Conversation, Accompaniment, Discernment, Co-Navigation, Co-Creation as a Process of Program Development for Evangelization in Liceo De San Pedro Calungsod Mission School. Archīum.ATENEO.
https://archium.ateneo.edu/theses-dissertations/710
