dicovering the meaning of life through values education

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DISCOVERING THE MEANING OF LIFE

THROUGH VALUES EDUCATION


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Discovering the Meaning of Life

Through Values Education

1. Context of Value Formation

2. Who am I?

3. Self with Others- Interpersonal Relations4. Values

5. Model: Jesus Christ, the embodiment of values


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1. Context of Value Formation

1.1 Workshop: Contemporary Setting in Life1.11.What are your favorite forms of

entertainment?

What makes you like them?How these entertainments affect you?

1.1.2 Who are your favorite movie idols?

What makes you like them?

How these idols affect you?


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1.2 Context of Value Formation

1.2.1 Amusement Society

1.2.2 Technological Society

1.2.3 Information Society


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1.2 Amusement Society

1.2.1 Great Icons of Post-Modernity:Cable TV, Internet, Mall. All these give

multiplicity of choices. This might lead to

ind iv idual ism.


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1.1 Amusement Society

1.1.2 Negative Effects: We have beenflooded with so many amusing things to the

extent that our minds have been eclipsed

with entertainments. Now this creates aconspiracy of superf ic ia li tysince

amusement eclipsed philosophical

questions.


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1.2. Technological Society

1.2.1Technology eliminates trouble and

contingency.

1.2.2 Negative effect: This gives us an

illusion of mastery. If we are masters of

everything, then we no longer need God,

the Ultimate Reality.


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1.3 Information Society

We have been flooded with so manyinformation to the extent that we dont

have luxury of processing them.

Contemporary understanding ofintel l igenceis the ability to process

information that enables the person to

solve genuine problems or difficulties.(Howard Gardner Information Processing Paradigm)


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2. Who Am I?

In ordinary life, we took this question for

granted, it is only during limit situations:

experience of sickness, failure and death

that we profoundly ask the question

who am I?

Workshop: Gifts of my Personhood


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2.1 Gifts of My Personhood

2.1.1. Gifts of Being

2.1.2 Gifts of Doing

2.1.3 Gifts of Having

We are going to count GODS LOVEthrough the gifts that we received.


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2.1.1. Gifts of Being

(I have special qualities of my person,

both physical and internal)

I list as many gifts that I have as aperson.

I AM ________________

________________ ________________


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2.1.2Gifts of Doing

(I can do things beautifully, I have

special skills and abilities)

I CAN_______________ _______________

_______________


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2.1.3 Gifts of Having

I have been blessed with persons and

events in my life. They have help me

become the person I am today.

I HAVE _____________Why?____________ (Persons) _____________ ____________

(events) _____________ ____________


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GIFTS OF

MY PERSONHOOD

Gift of Being

(Symbol)

Gift of Doing

(symbol )

Gift of Having

(Symbol)


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3. Self with Others:

Interpersonal Relationship

3.1 Workshop: Life map exercise

Draw graphically your life-story in a map.

How do you see Gods movement

in your life?

3.2 Song: Yahweh I Know You are Near


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4. Values

Love

Truthfulness and Honesty

Justice

Patience

Service

Model: Jesus Christ, the embodiment ofvalues


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4.1 Definition

Values refers to our shared idea on what is

good, desirable and important. (sociology) Value is something that demands to be

realized. (Gabriel Marcel)


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4.2 How do one acquires values?

Objective knowledge- a knowledge whichcan be explained in clear concepts.

Instruction-teaching the right thing throughwords and actions.

Tacit Knowledge- a knowledge learned byparticipation

Upbringing-refers to the thousand daily

gestures, the early training that oneencounters in ordinary life while growing up.


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4. 3. Values

4.3.1 Love

4.3.2. Truthfulness and honesty

4.3.3 Justice

4.3.4 Patience

4.3.5 Service


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4.3.1 Love

To love is a personal decision. It involves theability to risk.

Excursus: the dynamics of saying YES or NO:

NO- implies no responsibility, it is definite.

Ones responsibility will end by the very act of saying NO.

YES- implies responsibility. Thus, onesdecisions and actions must honor and

affirm this first YES!


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4.3.1 Love

Love is self-giving.

Love is wholly concerned for the beloved. Sacrifice is the language oflove.

The pain lies in abandoning my egoism and self-centeredness.

Reciprocity of LoveWhat is the relationship between love of the other and love of myself?

Its not a loss of self. On the contrary, in loving the other I need to lovemyself, in loving the other I come to fulfill and love myself.

Motive of Love is the You for whom I care! I love you because youare beautiful and lovable, and you are beautiful and lovablebecause you are you.


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4.3.1 Love

The risk of loving is rejection. It tests the

authenticity of love. If the rejection is final,

then it is painful but the experience can

provide an opportunity for self- emptying

and examination which will be an

opportunity for self-development. In this

sense, unreciprocated love is still anenriching experience.


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Union of Love: WE become more ofourselves by loving!

The Gif t of Self : My self-o f fer ing in love

can only be authent ic i f what I of fer isvaluable to mysel f . If I despise myself andgive myself to the other, my giving is a

throwing away of myself. Im throwing agarbage and the other simply feels like agarbage can!


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Love is Total, Eternal and Sacred

Love is total undivided commitment to the

other

Love is eternal: I shall commit myself toyou in sickness and in health, for richer or

poorer till death do us part! To say I love you

means you shall not die! (Gabriel Marcel)


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Love is sacred. If love is the gift of self to

another person, then their relationship is

sacred.

When confidence is betrayed something fine

and beautiful dies.

LOVE IS TO BE EXPERIENCED THAN

TALKED ABOUT


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4.3.2 Truthfulness and Honesty

Truthfulnessdeals with words. Honesty

deals with actions.

If out of 1000 workers only 1 is honest,then that person must be a UBian.


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4.3.3 Justice is giving what is due to the

other

4.3.4 Patience is not a matter of time. It is the

quality of the heart to accept to accept the

fundamental realities that God is in charge of

everything and that delay is necessary to makethings more mature.


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4.3.4 Service

Others first.

One must be sensitive to identify theneeds of others in order to serve

them better.


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5. The Model: Jesus Christ

We are now invited to pay attention to the

WHO of values: our model, Jesus Christ.

There will be two parts of our reflection.

First, we will reflect on what the m ind of

the model should no t be. Secondly, we will

meditate on the m ind of our model.


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5.1 What the Mind of the Model

Should No Be?

The teacher complex

The crusading mind


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5.1.1 The teacher complex

This refers to the superiority complex that wants to

teach, but does not want to learn; that is interested

in teaching, but not in being taught; that speaks to

fellow workers and students but does not listen tothem. It is a mind set of wealth: I am a fresh

graduate! I learn a lot, therefore I am rich with the

truth, which I give you like I give alms to a beggar.

It is a one way traffic mind, since all that hasmeaning and value comes from the teacher.


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5.1.2 The crusading mind

The crusading mind is a relatedmindset. It is a mindset of competition and

force that sees the person, as the sole force

of truth and righteousness against all theevil, ignorance and superstition out there in

the work place.

Th SERVANT MIND f J Ch i


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5.3. The SERVANT MIND of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Washes His Disciples Feet

John 13:4-5; 14-15.

Jesus got up from table, remove hisgarment and taking a towel, wrap it aroundhis waist. Then he poured water into a basin

and begun to wash the disciples feetandwipe them with the towel he was wearing. IfI then your Lord and Master, have washedyour feet, you also must wash one anothersfeet. I have given you an example that as Ihave done, you also may do.


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The SERVANT MIND of

Jesus Chr is t

The servant mind awakens

servanthood in the ones served.

Good works are alwayscontagious.

A servant mind involves and is

permeated by a spirit of welcomeand respect for the people serve


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its willingness and it inner compulsion,

to go in search where there is dirt

ugliness and negativity-to wash, to clean,

and refresh, even when it means being

stained by the dirt in the process.


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A servants mind dreams for the

Kingdom of God.

A dreamer must have a vision whosehorizon is bigger than life.

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