Cardijn Today: Inequality, ecology and diversity

Saturday, 5 March 2016

CCI Conference 2016 - Panel Discussion on Labour Migration

CCI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016

YOU ARE INVITED

'PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘LABOUR MIGRATION IN ASIA’

A Sideline Event during CCI International Conference 2016 –

An opportunity to understand the situation of ‘labour migration in Asia’

Joe Beach, Mamallapuram, India

Saturday, 6^th May 2016 – 08.30 to 09.30 p.m

Presenters:

‘Labour Migrant from India’: Dr Bernard D’ Sami, Arunodhaya Migrant Initiative, Chennai; Retired Professor of History, Loyola College, Chennai, India; former YCW-India and CCI Resource Person

‘Migrant labour in Singapore with focus on Tamil migrant workers’ and ‘ASEAN framework on the rights of migrant workers’ : Sinapan Samydorai, Convenor-Consultant, ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour and former IYCW-Asia Pacific Team.

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

New date for CCI Conference

New dates for the CCI International Conference 2016

Cardijn Today:
Inequality, Ecology and Diversity

5 - 8 May 2016

Joe Beach Resort

Chennai, India

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Register to participate here:

Registration fee: US$ 120 - for 4 nights 5 day accommodation (twin share), all meals from dinner on 5th May 2016 till breakfast on 9th May 2016

About the conference: http://www.cyours.com/cci/index.html

Online registration: http://www.cyours.com/cci/registration.aspx

Online registration fee: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/cardijn-community-international-cci-7840204935

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Nederlands: http://wereldkaj.blogspot.be/2015/03/uitnodiging.html

Learn more about our previous CCI training programs and events:

Cardijn Community International

Learn more about Joseph Cardijn

www.josephcardijn.com (English)

www.josephcardijn.fr (French)

Learn more about our Vatican 2+50 program:

www.vatican2plus50.com

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Read Pope Francis new encyclical Laudato Si

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

http://www.justpeace.org/planetprayers.pdf

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Conference postponed because of Chennai floods

Devastating floodwaters in Chennai have caused the postponement of the CCI international conference originally scheduled for 5 - 8 December 2015.

CCI Secretary General MJ Ruben and Convenor Stefan Gigacz made the call at 3am Chennai time on 2 December as flood waters rose in the streets of the city, forcing the closure of the city's international airport and cancelling train and bus services.

The conference venue, Joe Beach, remained cut off for six days at the height of the floods stranding former Mauritius Minister of Social Security, Ms Joceline Minerve, who had arrived early at the venue.

Conference special guests, Jose Luis Palacio, his wife Stella Maris, and their daughter Belen, who had arrived in Delhi en route to Chennai, were also caught out by the storms. With the assistance of former IYCS leader, Manoj Mathew, former YCW India national chaplain, Fr Soosai Servatius, and YCW India leader AJ Simon Peter, an alternative program for our guests was quickly arranged, including a visit to the Kanyakumari region of India.

The homes of several CCI leaders in Chennai were affected by the floods. Others played an active role in flood relief in the coming days.

The CCI conference, Cardijn Today: Inequality, Ecology and Diversity will now take place from 6 - 8 May 2016.

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Chennai floods 2015 (Destination8infinity)

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

The Conference with a Difference

The time tested See-Judge-Act methodology promoted by Cardijn is once again on the centre stage of universal debate thanks to Laudato Si’ the recent encyclical of Pope Francis on Environment.

Pope Francis has adopted the See Judge Act method to awaken the world on the need to protect our environment through a ‘swift and unified global action’.

It is not the first time the Church has recognised the importance of the Cardijn methodology to express its position particularly in its social teachings.

Saint John XXIII had formally recognised the ‘See Judge Act’ method in his encyclical ‘Mater `et Magistra’ published in 1961.

In his address to a gathering of Christian workers near the tomb of Cardijn on May 19, 1985, Saint John Paul II exclaimed: “The whole world can be grateful to Cardijn for a pedagogy that he has put in place, in the form of the famous trilogy: SEE-JUDGE-ACT”

CCI which has taken upon itself the task of promoting Cardijn’s spirituality, vision and SEE JUDGE ACT methodology, in its journey for 14 years, is trying to promote this unique methodology particularly to the next generation.

In fact, CCI is a resource group of trained people with their ‘core competency’ in Review of life (ROL) based on See Judge Act.

All the projects and programs of CCI are always based on See Judge Act methodology and aimed at promoting the ‘Review of Life’.

Review of Life – the basis for the conference

The CCI International Conference is another occasion to practically experience the ‘Review of Life’ based on See Judge Act.

For those who had been through Cardijn movements, ROL is a way of life and the See Judge Act methodology is used in all their day to day life situations.

Cardijn methodology of See Judge Act is a tool of analysis as experienced by all of us in our lives and not an end in itself. Review of life is merely not an exercise but should lead us towards the final goal.

The methodology helps us to effectively see the realities; judge the situations based on our own experiences; the experiences of those who struggled before us; our own faith and Word of God(those who believe in God and non-believers too); Social Teachings of the Church; Human Rights and other charters of UN; laws and legislations in our places and other reference points. The actions will follow based on our study of realities. Review of life necessitates also a proper evaluation of the action taken. Thus it becomes a continuous process of review, action, evaluation and action towards change for a better world.

Let us bring such experiences to the conference and resolve to act to build a new world as envisioned by Cardijn. The conference is participatory wherein each person will have a definite role and not just an intellectual debate or presentation of papers by some experts.

The resource persons too are from the Cardijn movement background.

If you have a glance at the proposed draft program, it enables us to begin with SEEING the reality of inequalities existing in our places and countries, the ecological degradation happening and the situation of diversity in terms of language, religion, cultures, ethnicity, customs, beliefs, sexual orientation, etc. In the JUDGE part, the participants will be presenting as to how the decisions of Vatican II in terms of social teachings and lay participation have been lived and experienced by them.

The presentation by the participants will be followed by testimonies of a few resource persons who are all from Cardijn movements.

We expect that the presentations and testimonies on lived experiences would indicate the successes and failures, challenges faced, limitations and areas still to be covered.

The conference would offer a unique experience of ROL groups which will in fact be a community of like-minded people journeying together.

Guido Vogels, President of Cardijn Community Australia and who attended the last Conference Preparatory meeting has outlined what is expected of the ROL groups. He explains that “we will be having review of life groups meeting every day facilitated by trained facilitators and these people would meet every night to collect data, the same groups would be meeting for the 3 days, for continuity, efficiency and building community; they would prepare mentors for following day so that at the end it would all come together. The actions are coming from the members of the review of life groups which are then presented to the conference floor”.

Guido will be briefing the groups on the method of work.

In the ACT part, proposals emanating from the ROL groups and from the discoveries and conclusions of each part will be considered by the Conference for drawing perspectives.

Cardijn perspectives will be the guiding point in the whole process.

Tribute to Cardijn, Cardijn martyrs and Pioneers

Before concluding the conference,we will be paying tributes to Cardijn, Cardijn martyrs and Pioneers who struggled before us to build a better future for us and for the generations to come. This is also a rare opportunity for all Cardijn followers to unite in spirit to honour them for showing the way for us to continue their mission.

You are welcome

The program proposed is only a draft which will be fine-tuned with inputs from you all and a final program will be presented at the conference. However, the main outline could be seen from the proposals.

We are waiting to receive you all at Joe Beach, the exotic sea side conference centre where we will See Judge and Act – joyfully and as one community. Welcome to you.

Those of you yet to register, please do register soon. Do not miss this rare opportunity of the congregation of Cardijn lovers.

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Join us for the CCI International Conference 2015