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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.