Media Training - Gurjarvani - at Saputara

The Media Training 2013 at Saputara is going on with 30 participants from allover Gujarat is coming to an end on on 31st morning. The 30 participants have enjoyed the intense training given by the staff of Gurjarvani and other visiting resource persons. It is organized by Gurjarvani, Socom, and Waves. The weather is very fine and helpful for many hours of intense work needed for Media Training. Since we have only a slow connection for internet photos cannot be uploaded from here. devasia m

Media training 2013, Gurjarvani -Jeevandarshan

Gurjarvani and Jeevan Darshan together organized a Media Training workshop for religious from April 23 to 4th May at Jeevan Darshan, Vadodara. The aim of this workshop was to equip us with communication skills to express ourselves creatively and effectively to the people wherever we serve. There were 18 participants including Jesuit scholastics, seminarians from Baroda diocese and sisters from various congregations. A few day-scholars too attended sessions according to their own interest. The training covered the basic subjects of story-telling, script-writing, presentation skills, power-point presentations, photography, video shooting, editing, audio recording, creating a blog, use of internet, social media etc. The participants were kept extremely busy in the heat of Baroda with a lot of hands on which helped them very much. 

The team of Frs. Chandresh, Devasia and Ashok Vaghela remained with the group all the time, guiding them to all kinds of activities. There were many who guided us through this creatively arranged workshop. They are Frs. Rappai, Vinayak and William Pius. The team of experts from Gurjarvani consisting of Pratik, Swapneel, Vishant, Sachin, Grena, Blesson and Jothi Xavier helped the group for smooth learning.
From a class-room equipped with computers for each of the participant to the arrangements of food was fabulous. The participants were provided with still as well as video cameras for 24 hours to practice as per their interest. Creative audio-visual prayers and Eucharistic celebrations added flavor to the entire learning experience. We all realized how important and necessary it is for all of us to know and equip ourselves with communication skills in Today's world to spread the values of Christ. Most of them expressed to have such training programs at regular intervals to be at pace with the demand of the fast changing world. 

(Report by Sch. John Britto SJ)

The Gujarat Jesuit province Sammelan [ meeting] 2013

The Gujarat Jesuit province Sammelan [ meeting] 2013 was held form 6th May evening  to 9th afternoon  at Loyola Hall, Ahmadabad,  India. About 150 Jesuits and collaborators  attended the Sammelan and discussed how the Jesuits and friends can share their vision of a New society and a new Earth where people are helped to work for justice, peace, cooperation, and  total development of persons and people. The panelists were very forceful in their sharing about the need to change our attitudes and the way of working today to be more professional and more effective.
Devasia
9th May 2013

Part of the group Photo on 9th May 2013 morning

last session with POSA Fr Edward sj

A large poster showing districts and commissions [*]

Meditation