Pastoral Webinar 2022
On January 27th Mission & Identity Formators and Pastoral Coordinators in our Primary and Secondary Schools met during the Pastoral Webinar. The theme of our meeting was that of ‘’accompaniment’’, of walking with our colleagues as we accompany them in their professional lives. Using the biblical image of Jesus sending the disciples out ahead of him as he went about his mission the webinar explored the reality of how we walk with our colleagues ‘from and into the heart of our Ignatian tradition”.
Annual Delegates Meeting 2021
As the last in-person meeting of the Delegates had been in Albania in 2019, it was a real delight for the European Education Delegates to actually gather in Lyon for this years meeting. Whilst most were able to gather in person, a few joined us virtually, one from as far away a place as Tomsk in Siberia. But this hybrid gathering did not diminish the pleasure and excitement of being with another again. There was a genuine joy in reconnecting and feeling part of the European network again.
JECSE participation in JESEDU global 2021
More than 80 European representatives paricipated in the second JESEDU colloquium, intended for colleagues in leadership positions in our Jesuit Global Network of Schools, just before the summer holidays. This colloquium, originally intended to take place in the summer of 2020 in Indonesia, now took place online with around 400 partucipants worldwide. With four strands – on educating for faith, for depth, for reconciliation and for global citizenship – the colloquium circled around the main theme of ‘Discerning for a Hope-filled future’. The Asia-Pacific Region designed the program, containing 8 interesting key-note speeches and some beautiful video’s animated by students and alumni, in close collabora0on with the Educate Magis Team which facilitated two rounds of global as well as regional (European) discernment circles.
Delegates meeting 2020 online
Not face to face in Lyon as intended, but nevertheless in an atmosphere of friendship, our JECSE Education Delegates met online for three days last November on behalf of our annual mee
IPP-Conference 2020
On February 3rd to 6th, 2020, over 30 educators from nine European countries attended a four-day Conference on “Learning by Refraction,” a 21st-century approach to Ignatian Pedagogy proposed in a book of the same title by Fr. Johnny Go SJ and Ms. Rita Atienza of the Ateneo SALT Institute.
Primary Heads Conference 2020
In Loyola 80 colleagues, mainly Principals of Primary Schools, met this January for the JECSE Conference around the theme of ‘(How) to talk about Jesus in the secularized and multi-convictional context of today?’
In its conferences for different audiences JECSE has been focusing on this question during some time now. The diversity of our European context is enriching but also challenging, and for some – both within and outside of our catholic tradition – the very mention of Jesus becomes an obstacle to dialogue, a reason to disengage. Yet the spiritual journey of Ignatius of Loyola shows us how the encounter with Jesus dramatically changed the course of his life. The still, life-giving dialogue with Jesus, engaging all the aspects of his person, opened Ignatius’ s eyes (conscience) and heart (compassion) and mobilized his intelligence(competence) to act in a diversity of ways, always adapting to meet the needs of time and place (commitment). The aim of JECSE’s conferences over the last years has been to explore how Jesus, far from being an obstacle to dialogue, can become the source and the means of an open, deep and fruitful dialogue in a multi-convictional context
Delegates Meeting 2019
For their annual meeting, the JECSE Education Delegates were invited in Albania this November by Fr Jimmy Bartolo sj, delegate for the Euro-Mediterranean Province.
In Tirana we received a warm welcome, prepared by Fr Zef Bisha sj and the Jesuit communities’ wonderful assistant Ms Nevila Zeneli.
Task Force Meeting 2019
On May 5 -8 2019 members and supporters of three JECSE Task Forces met in Salamanca to talk about new collaborative European initiatives on three major topics: Global Citizenship, Safeguarding, and collaboration in Staff Formation. The Task Force initiative was a result of the last annual JECSE meeting of the European Education Delegates, that had ‘networking as a new way of proceeding’ as its main theme.
Formators Conference 2019
At the end of March 2019, 32 European participants gathered for the yearly JECSE Formators Conference, in Manresa Spirituality Centre in Dublin this time. ‘Educating Magis – Between Academic and Human Excellence’ was this years’ theme.
Pastoral Conference 2019
In this meaningful place of Manresa, where Ignatius discovered God’s presence in this world, we focussed together on our common mission, as the soul of our engagement every day. Remembering Father General Arturo Sosa’s words during the last worldwide Conference for Jesuit Education in Rio de Janeiro, we started with the notion of reconciliation as being at the heart of our JECSE collaboration:
…striving for a kind of education that helps us to understand human beings and the world in all their complexity, so that that human beings can configure the world in a way that is more compassionate, and therefore more divine.
Delegates Meeting 2018
Education Delegates from Jesuit Provinces across Europe (JECSE) gathered for their annual meeting in the Old Abbey of Drongen, Belgium (Nov 28th – Dec 1st).
Franck Janin sj, as president of the JCEP, opened the meeting and expressed his sincere gratitude to the Steering Committee for all their work during the interim period when the search for MT Michel’s successor was taking place. He also welcomed Ilse Dekker and thanked her for her generosity and willingness to serve as the new director of JECSE.
Formators Conference 2018
For the 2018 JECSE Formators Conference we welcomed 26 participants from Belgium North and South, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands.
The theme of our meeting was ‘being Ignatian in a secularised context’; a continuation of the conversation begun in JESEDU-Rio. Our purpose was to explore how – as Ignatian educators – we can find new ways to meet the ‘needs of the times’ in our European context.