{"id":292800,"date":"2011-10-12T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/a-community-that-educates-a-winning-gamble\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:44:10","slug":"a-community-that-educates-a-winning-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-community-that-educates-a-winning-gamble\/","title":{"rendered":"A community that educates – a winning gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Almost paradoxically, in a world that is always more global and\u00a0 in communication, there is an increase of the sense of being left out and of areas of solitude, with definitive negative consequences both at the individual and collective level, so much so that OMS has forcast that in 2030 depression in youths could become the second absolute cause of death. Yet, there is an increasing perception in all directions – as documented in the intervention prepared by the International Commission of Education for Unity <\/strong>– of the \u201cneed for community\u201d(according to the expression of Z. Bauman), and starting from this radical need, one recognises the necessity to \u201cform the man- in relationship\u201d the key idea of Chiara Lubich in the Education area. It was underlined by her in the lectio on the occasion of the degree \u201chonoris causa\u201d in pedagogy (USA, 2000), and now referred to with vigour in this 5th pedagological meeting of EdU. An engaging and fascinating gamble that has involved the 270 partecipants (university professors, teachers, parents, students), together with many that have followed direct through internet, from Sicily, Albania, Malta, Slovenia right up to Colombia and other extra european countries. There were not only reflections on the essentiality of\u00a0 weaving autentic relationships as the foundation of the authentic community, but also the possibility of experiencing them in the entwining of the various moments of dialogue and the exchange-presentations of educational experiences. They dealt, in order to remain coherent with the theme of the meeting, with the not easy construction of the reality of community in various contexts-involving families, schools, the institutions present in the territory-beginning with the intradependence of persons capable of weaving relationships and alliances, inverting in that way the temptation to be individualistic, and injecting doses of hope, an indispensable element of any educational project. The intervention of prof. Domenico Bellantoni (Pontificia Universita` Salesiana, Rome) was very stimulating to delve into the meaning of relationship in the communitarian context.<\/strong> He took part for the whole day, and in particular, starting from the logotherapy of Vicktor Frankl, he delved into the idea of person-autotranscendence, open therefore to relationship and responsibility. Other interventions that will soon be available on Education for Unity website (www.eduforunity.org<\/a>), <\/strong>were given by Maria Ricci, Michele De Beni, Teresa Boi, and Giuseppe Milan who have presented more directly the contributions\u00a0 regarding what has been the work, this year, of the central Commission EdU. The final dialogue was rich, solicited by open questions recognised in the group workings. The participants left with joy and renewed educational enthusiasm as evidenced by some impressions: <\/em> \u201cIt’s something achievable; I go from here with new hope!\u201d<\/em> \u201cWe need to learn the grammar of relationship.\u201d<\/em> \u201cWe are ready for\u00a0 commitment, both individual and collective, to make constructive proposals and be ready to lose them.<\/em>\u201d<\/em> \u201c Seeing each other new every day builds the community.\u201d <\/em> And from the messages received through Internet: \u201cWhat an extraordinary possibility to build personal relationships amongst ourselves and in our communities also through the help of the means of communication\u201d <\/em>(Slovenia); \u201cI am ready together with all to commit myself to take forward with hope this great project.\u201d <\/em>(Argentina).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual appointment organized by Education for Unity (EDU), was held on 9th October at Benevento (Italy). A day centred on the educational role of the community. Internet link ups with many points in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}