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Integral Formation Formation as transformation A journey into freedom Through stages and processes Transformation • Formation is a radical transformation in all the dimensions of human experience: affective, moral, socio-political, intellectual, somatic, religious and vocational dimensions. • Since the spiritual dimension is central to all the other dimensions, transformation is essentially spiritual transformation. • In short, the goal of the spiritual journey is transformation, and the purpose of prayer and other spiritual practices is to foster this transformation. Transformation a process of conversion Jn. 16.13ff; I Cor.15.51-52; 2 Peter 3.8ff Self transformation Transformation of conciousness Social transformation Conversion: A turning from irresponsible behaviour and a turning toward responsible behaviour in some realm ofexperience – Gelpi Initial conversion: a preliminary shift from irresponsible to the responsible behaviour Ongoing conversion: continuous, persisting development in all dimensions Three domains of transformation • Spiritual • Moral • Psychological Meta-domain Seven Dimensions of transformation • • • • • • • Religious/Spiritual Affective Moral Intellectual Socio-Political Somatic Vocational/Charismatic Somatic Socio-political Intellectual Moral Affective Vocatioonal/charismatic Religious/Spiritual Spiritual Practices Virtues Spiritual Moral Psychological Self-Capacties 1. Religious and Spiritual Transformation • To move away from idols and turn to true God of Life • To unconditional commitment to seek God’s Will as revealed in the person of Jesus and his vision of the Kingdom of God • Strategies: Regular prayer, sacraments, meditation, spiritual reading, fasting etc. 2. Affective transformation • Taking responsibility for one’s emotional life with all its feelings, passions and intentions. • To recognize, accept and integrate emotions to the rest of life • Emotional healing: It requires the forgiveness of past hurts and the replacement of anger, fear, and guilt with love, compassion, sensitivity and enthusiasm. Strategy: spiritual direction, psychological Counselling/therapy, Progressive ownership of one’s own unconscious capacity for violence and destructive behaviours 3. Moral Transformation • move from simple gratification of immediate personal needs to living by consistent principles of ethics and justice • Formed conscience based on Christian moral principles • capacity to deal with moral dilemmas and challenges faced in everyday life Strategy: Cultivation of moral virtues Developing capacity to criticize false value systems that corrupt Christian conscience Intellectual Transformation to pursue the truth relentlessly and confront any form of false ideology and personal prejudices that rationalize sinful conduct • move beyond mere knowledge of religious beliefs and tenets, and have come to a personal appropriation of these beliefs • To understand and express their relationship to God and Jesus Christ in personally meaningful terms • easily recognize beliefs that are inconsistent with Gospel values and eliminate self- deceit and self-righteousness • sufficient grasp of the theological issues and controversies surrounding their faith tradition to formulate their own position or response to these issues. Socio-political transforamtion • move and grow beyond personal transformation to socio-political transformation • True personal transformation affects the soceity by confronting the individual with the world, that is the corporations, institutions, and vested interest groups that promote other value systems • Effective participation in the struggle for justice, peace Somatic transformation • Somatic refers to the human body (the temple of the Holy spirit -1 Cor 6.19), to body structure, and to bodily sensations, feelings—including sexual feelings—and memories . It is the physical manifestation of an individual’s spirit • Somatic transformation is primarily about wellness. It can co-exist with disease, and even terminal illness • to have life-affirming attitudes toward their bodies— including sexuality—and will have integrated these attitudes into their philosophy of life. development of virtues such as temperance and physical fitness preventive measures such as proper diet, exercise, and sleep to contribute effectively to one’s vitality, somatic wholeness, and transformation. Vocational/Charismatic transformation • Move from a simple attraction to claretian life often mixed with mundane motives to deeper conviction and appreciation of the “call expereince”. • Progressive internalization of the vocational values and their integration to the rest of life • Claretian vocation becomes the organizing principle of ones being and acting. • One’s spiritual expereince and relational life comes to be centred in the vocational experience of the crucified Christ and flow from there Dynamics of transformation • “dynamics” refers to the way in which the different forms of transformation mutually reinforce one another Eg. Affective trans. animates the other forms of conversion Intellectual trans. informs and orders the other forms. Moral trans. helps orient the other four forms toward principles that make ultimate and absolute ethical claims Somatic Moral Vocational Religious Religious spiritual Affective Sociopolitical Intellectual Counter-Dynamics of transformation • “Counter-dynamics” refer to the ways in which the absence of transformation in one dimension tends to undermine and subvert transformation in another dimension. Eg. Affective immaturity affects spiritual transformation. Self-transcendence • It is the most basic human drive, which is the radical desire for a relationship with God • It is the fundamental desire of the self is to transcend itself in relationship: to the world, to other, to God. • only a developed powerful self has the strength to realize significant transcendence • The desire to be a self and to reach out beyond the self must be understood together. . . . This dual desire of the human heart is. . . self-transcendence Open to the Other Centering within oneself Formation of the moral domain cultivation of virtues • Moral domain includes character, virtue, sin, moral precepts, and asceticism etc. • “plant an act, reap a habit; plant a habit, reap a virtue; plant a virtue, reap a character; plant a character, reap a destiny” • Character is a construct which focuses on the individual’s relationship and responsibility to both self and community Self-Care Physical fitness Humility Temperance Fidelity compassion Virtues Prudence Justice Holiness , faith Obedience, poverty, chastity Fortitude Charity Vocational dimension and virtues Poverty Chastity Obedience community Enables one to value the tresures of the Kingdom over against immediate and perishable goods Disposes one to transcend love and care beyond the physical and immediate gratifications Ensures the inner freedom to seek God’s will in one’s life and let oneself be guided by another for the sake of the Kingdom Enables one to affecively and effectively live in community 6 Spiritual practices & methods Types of practice Transforming cravings and redirecting desires Spiritual method Healing the heart and learning to love Forgiveness; reconciliation; inner healing work; reframing fear, hurt, and anger Centering prayer; meditation; mantra; community worship; mindfulness in eating, walking, listening, and speech Awakening spiritual vision Fasting; single pointed attention; custody of the senses; exercise regimen; commitment to simple living Living ethically Practicing right actions, giving up gossip, practicing truthfulness, confession and making amends Developing wisdom and spiritual understanding spiritual reading, committing time to silence and solitude, recognizing the sacred in all things Expressing spirit in service Almsgiving, involvement in volunteer activities, advocating justice for the poor, etc. Discernment Distinguishing between apparent good and real good. Accompaniment 13 Self-Capacities Abilities that are essential for adequate personal functioning and adequate functioning in relationships and in the community. Self-Activation Capacity to identify one’s unique individuality, goals, and wishes, and then to be assertive in expressing and achieving them Self-Mastery Capacity to achieve a balance of pleasure and self-control over needs, desires, wishes, and cravings SelfAcknowledgment Capacity to renew belief in one’s own worthiness and to acknowledge having effectively coped with a crisis or concern Capacity to experience a wide range of feelings appropriately, deeply, and without biocking or deadening their impact Spontaneity Self-Soothing Capacity to limit, minimize, and soothe painful affects without recourse to emotional numbing, depersonalization, or de-realization Intimacy Capacity to express the self fully in a dose relationship with minimal anxiety or fears of rejection Self-Continuity Capacity to recognize and to acknowledge that the inner selfpersists and is continuous through space and over time Creativity Capacity to use the self to replace old familiar patterns with new, unique, and different patterns Autonomy Capacity to regulate self-esteem and to be alone with minimal fear of abandonment or engulfment. Self-Surrender Commitment Critical Reflection Critical Social Consciousness Capacity to forego self-interests that are obstacles to being caring and compassionate Capacity to commit to a personal, community, or career goal or to a relationship and then to persevere in that commitment Capacity to objectively analyze ideas, ideologies, and situations and related underlying assumptions Capacity to analyze social situations in terms of ethical and moral assumptions and consequences Virtues Related Spiritual Practices Religious/Christian Charity, holiness Intellectual prudence Awakening Spiritual Vision. meditation Developing Wisdom and Understanding Affective Self-care, compassion Fidelity, trustworthiness justice Healing the Heart, Learning to Love Living Ethically Temperance, physical fitness Transforming Cravings Dimensions of Transformation Moral Sociopolitical Somatic Vocational/charismatic Obedience, chastity, poverty Expressing Spirit in Service discernment Practical application • Establish a relationship of mutuality • Begin an assessment of the dimensions of transformation • Assess levels of virtues, spiritual practices, and selfcapacities • Highlight deficits in virtue, spiritual practices, selfcapacities • Specify a plan • Implement the plan , assess and monitor progress