Spirituality Network for Education

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Spirituality Network for Education
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Academic situation

• Few local Centers
• Europe
• United States
• Australia
• India
• Emphasis on Western culture in the Northern
  hemisphere
• Need for an international and intercultural
  network

ROME
PARIS
MUNSTER
NIJMEGEN
WASHINGTON
BERKELEY
BANGALORE
LOUVAIN
DUBLIN
MELBOURNE
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Spine

• Cooperation of institutes
• Initiative
• Participants
• Internationally oriented
• Open to new participants
• Digital learning Environment
• Intercultural exchange

PHILIPPINES
SOUTH AFRICA
NETHERLANDS
NETHERLANDS
S P I N E
TITUS BRANDSMA INSTITUTE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA
ST AUGUSTINE COLLEGE
INST OF FORMATION AND REL STUDIES
CENTER FOR SPIRITUALITY
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
NIJMEGEN
PRETORIA
JOHANNESBURG
MANILA
NIJMEGEN
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Point of departure

• Result of 35 years research and education
• Basis for seven general modules
• Developed by the Titus Brandsma Institute

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Point of departure
Spirituality

• Result of 35 years research and education
• Basis for seven general modules
• Developed by the Titus Brandsma Institute

Spirituality Forms, Foundations, Methods Kees
Waaijman
Multi-faceted phenomenon
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Spirituality

• Traditions and Schools
• Lay spirituality
• Countermovements

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General modules

• Foundation
• Introduction to Spirituality
• Object
• Forms of Spirituality
• Methodology of Spirituality
• Methods
• Form Description
• Spiritual Hermeneutics
• Systematic Spirituality
• Mystagogy

Description
Description
Forms
Forms
Introduction
Hermeneutics
Mystagogy
Hermeneutics
Mystagogy
Methodology
Methodology
Systematics
Systematics
Formal Object
Material Object
Methods
Bachelor
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Central role of mystagogy
Introduction
Mystagogy
Forms
MYSTAGOGY
Systematics
Methodology
Description
Hermeneutics
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Mystagogy
Consciousness of and insight intopersonal
spirituality
openness
discernment
interiorization
MYSTAGOGY

• Interactive interiorization
• Discernment
• Openness for different perspectives

Awareness of subjectivity
Divine human encounter
Change of perspective
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Digital Learning Environment

• Promotes interiorization processes
• Enables international and intercultural exchange
• Gradual integration in the Web-community SPIRIN

INTERIORIZATION
Network for Education
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Complementary Methods
Traditional and digital education for a more
concentrated and intensified learning process

• Digital Learning Environment
• Face-to-face sessions

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Flexibility
Use of modules in local academic structures

• Local responsibilities
• Combining residential and distant learning
• Flexible use of face-to-face sessions

Independent organization of local centers
Different forms of implementation
Education in a wider area
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Introduction to Spirituality
Introduction to the field of spirituality
Introduction

• Lived spirituality
• Treatises in spirituality

Formal Object
Material Object
Bachelor
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Forms of Spirituality
Exploration of the material object
Forms
Introduction

• Lay spirituality
• Schools of spirituality
• Counter movements

Material Object
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Methodology of Spirituality
Exploration of the formal object
Forms
Forms
Methodology

• Discernment
• Scientific approach
• Phenomenology
• Dialogical thinking

Formal Object
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Form description
Description of particular forms of spirituality
Description
Introduction

• Contextual embeddedness
• Spiritual inner horizon

Methods
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Spiritual Hermeneutics
The interpretation of spiritual texts
Description
Description
Hermeneutics

• Pre-understanding
• Textual Constitution
• Content Analysis
• Orative and Mystical dimension

Methods
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Systematics of Spirituality
Systematic reflection on lived spirituality
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics

• Analysis and Synthesis

Systematics
Methods
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Mystagogy
Reflection on the spiritual journey
Mystagogy

• Awakening
• Spiritual accompaniment
• Spiritual autobiography

Systematics
Systematics
Methods
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Specific modules
SECULAR SPIRITUALITY
AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY
ASIAN SPIRITUALITY
SPIRITUALITY HEALTHCARE
SPIRITUALITY ART
SPIRITUALITY MANAGEMENT
SPIRITUALITY EDUCATION
Spirituality as a multi-faceted and contextual
phenomenon

• In preparation
• Future possibilities

ST AUGUSTINE COLLEGE
CENTER FOR SPIRITUALITY
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
INVITATION
NIJMEGEN
JOHANNESBURG
MANILA
FOR NEW
NETHERLANDS
PHILIPPINES
SOUTH AFRICA
PARTICIPANTS
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Invitation !

• Communication
• Participation
• Contextualization

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Spirituality Network for Education
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Colophon

• Information SPINE / SPIRIN
• Website http//www.kun.nl/tbi
• E-mail jos.huls_at_tbi.kun.nl
• Demo
• Design Jos Huls
• Content Jos Huls in collaboration with Kees
  Waaijman