F
A
I
T
H
THE LIFE
ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT
TOWARDS
GOD
GROWTH
-human
-Christian
WITH OTHERS
DIMENSIONS
- body
- intelligence
- feelings
- will
WITH ONESELF
IN THE
WORLD
POINT OF
DEPARTURE
A personal
encounter with the
young person and
finding his place in
the educational
environment
DYNAMICS
OF
GROWTH
COMMUNITY
ASPECT
VOCACIONAL
GROUP ACTIVITY
EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS
EDUCATION- CULTURE
AIM
A PERSONALITY CONFORMED TO CHRIST
IN ACCORDANCE WITH SALESIAN YOUTH SPIRITUALITY
EDUCATIVE-CULTURAL
DIMENSION
Encourage a process of personal and
social growth that makes the young person
responsable of his own life and capable of
opening himself to God
Make him capable of assimilating culture
critically and of an ethical discernment
according to a Christian vision of life
Place him in a responsible way in his
social and cultural context ready to fight
against every kind of marginalisation
Help the young person to make
values his own and to develop the
religious aspect of his personality
EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS
DIMENSION
CHALLENGES:
CHOICES:
Secularisation
Educational
environment full of
evangelical values
Religiuos
pluralism
Systematic process of
education to the faith in
a group
Irrelevance of the
faith
Christian commitment
and missionary awareness
Help the young person to
orient to their full maturity in Christ
and to their growth in the Church.
GROUP ACTIVITY DIMENSION
The group as the educational and
evangelising hallmark feature of our ministry
Open to all young people, with an animating style
and growth-enabling
Linked to the SYM as the positive
experience of the Church
Accompanig them to assume with responsability
his place in society and in the Church.
VOCATIONAL DIMENSION
Helping the young person to live his life as a
vocation and to undertake his own role in
the Church and in society
* Vocational testimony of the educators
* Vocational culture: the life as a gift and a
service to community
* Clear and explicit vocational proposals
* Systematic discernment process
* With the Salesian Family and the local Church
More of strategic choices, vision-setting, evaluation
Less of initiatives here-and-there, activities left-and-right,
and improvisation
• Precise and concrete
objectives
• Progressive
sequencing and
linkaging of activities
• More and more
persons and groups who
share the objectives and
work as a team
Building the EPC
Common mission - shared mentality
Changing the situation
1
The salesian educative-pastoral
project constructs the EPC and
develops within it
2
It creates a sense of a common
mission, a shared way of thinking,
combining of resources
3
Develops in the young a sense of
El proceso a
educativo
community,
social and ecclesial
conscience
TIME FOR ANALYSING THE SITUATION
• Situation of the young and their environment;
• Situation of the EPC
• The most important and pressing challenges
TIME FOR PRODUCING THE PLAN OF
OPERATION
• The educational choices that are most urgent and possible: AIMS
• Concrete steps to be taken progressively to achieve these aims
• Courses of action and concrete steps
TIME FOR EVALUATION
• Prepare instruments for evaluation: INDICATORS that are objective,
concrete and capable of measurement
• Indicate when and how