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IGNATIAN
SCHOOL
LEADERSHIP
March 12, 2014
Day 02
Morning
Tagaytay, PHILIPPINES
Examining Leadership Stereotypes:
A Leadership of Reection + Action
Sharing My Leadership
Journey:
A Personal Denition
of Leadership
Navigating the Messy World of Administration:
The Complex Problems of Leadership
The complex world
calls for DISCERNMENT.
The inner complex world
calls for SELF-AWARENESS.
Building
My Pillar of
Self-
Awareness
Ms. CORIE LUZ
Self-Awareness
the frst building block
of DISCERNMENT
Especially for leaders
who live and move
in complex worlds
outside and inside
Some kind of
overview
A snapshot of ourselves
Ignatian Discernment
A shared understanding
Our dilemmas as leaders
are rarely right
vs. wrong decisions.
They are usually right
vs. right choices.
Joseph L. Badarraco
Defining Moments:
When Managers Must Choose
Between Right and Right
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In making right vs. right choices,
we reveal our values,
test our commitment to those values,
and ultimately shape our characters.
We define ourselves
and the organization we lead.
Mr. Tony Leung
Principal
Justin Bieber
Student
Ms. Toni Collette
English Teacher
Promote the students formation.
Educate Justins parents.
Help Colette understand.
Keep teachers morale.
Maintain good relations with benefactors.
Keep integrity of the school.
Keep construction project going.
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In addressing these adaptive problems
(and recognizing them in the first place!),
Mr. Leung clarifies his values, defines himself and the school.
In Ignatian Discernment,
we believe that
in every given situation,
Gods Will is
the greater good
to seek the greater good
The greater good
is what makes us
less self-oriented
& more other-oriented.
But Ignatius warns:
Gods Will is not always
what seems
more other-oriented.
Right vs. Right choices
(or Adaptive Problems) call for DISCERNMENT.
To discern
To strain to see
due to uncertainty,
distance or
darkness.
Ignatian
Discernment
refers to
what we do
to discover
what God wants
for us:
Gods will,
the greater good.
A true story...
Jill decided to call for a prayer meeting
so they all could pray for openness.
To decide, they agreed to toss coins.
The outcome was
to be considered Gods Will.
Sarah, who got the assignment
nobody wanted
shrugged her shoulders and accepted her fate:
Its Gods Will.
Jill could not make decisions
about the assignments of her teachers
because all had very strong preferences.
Discerning Gods Will requires
a way of looking at God
& a way of looking at life.
What is your face of God ?
What is your outlook in life?
God
is a puppet
master.
Gods
Will only.
God
is a watch
maker.
Our Freedom
+ Nature only.
God
is a dance
partner.
Gods Will +
Our Freedom
+ Nature
Life is a
PUPPET SHOW
Life is a
FINISHED PRODUCT
Life is an
ONGOING DANCE
God is involved, but
also respects our
freedom & nature.
Life as a
PUPPET SHOW
Life as a
FINISHED PRODUCT
Life as an
ONGOING DANCE
discernment
From absolute divine control
to no involvement at all...
Discernment is possible and makes
sense only if we believe:
that God is involved in our lives
and that we have real freedom
within the constraints of nature.
GOOD BAD
GREATER
GOOD
Discernment is a search for Gods Will.
God can only want what is good.
So discernment is NEVER a choice between good and bad,
or a decision between right and wrong
because God never wants something evil.
Discernment = always a choice between two goods
Moral
Discernment
when what is right & wrong
isnt clear
Ignatian
Discernment
when the greater good
isnt clear
Ignatian Discernment
BAD GOOD
PLEASURE
PAIN
GREATER GOOD
NO PROB
NO PROB NO PROB
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Moral Discernment
Discernment
is not
easy.
the
EMOTIONAL
self
the
WISE +
DISCERNING
SELF
the
LOGICAL
self
True or FALSE
TRUE
FALSE
What do your responses tell you about
your beliefs about emotions & feelings?
The more TRUE responses you have,
maybe the less positive
your attitude towards emotions?
Maybe the less comfortable you are
with your feelings?
For St. Ignatius of Loyola,
Discernment =
interior movements
motions of the soul
examining our thoughts
(understanding),
but also
& ESPECIALLY our feelings,
desires, memory, imagination
Reason is overrated
in discernment:
Necessary but not sufcient.
EXPERIENCE
REFLECTION
ACTION
External Events
Internal Events
EXPERIENCE
REFLECTION
Thoughts
Feelings
Action Urges
REFLECTING on Experience
DISCERNING My Response
PRAYING for Confirmation
IGNATIAN DISCERNMENT
The Ingredients of
DISCERNING My Response
PRAYING for Confirmation
REFLECTING on Experience
Refection on external events and
our interior movements
Ignatian discernment begins with
St. Ignatius invites us
to pay attention to our thoughts
and feelings, our imaginings,
desires, attractions & repulsions.
REFLECTION ON EXPERIENCE.
BRAND NEW BOSS
A CASE STUDY
PAIR WORK
MISS MARIA SILVA
New English Department Chair
Not an exercise in problem-solving
but an exercise in EMPATHY
Questions:
* What could Maria have been feeling
towards the end of her frst meeting
with her department?
* What could have made her feel that
way?
* If Maria were to react based on her
feelings, what would she feel like
saying and doing? (Be ready to act it
out)
What influences our feelings?
thoughts
feelings behavior
Give an example of how our
thoughts afect our feelings.
What if we change our
thoughts?
Give an example of
how our behavior
afects our feelings.
What if we change
our behaviors?
events
GOD
Inuences of the
Good & Bad Spirits
glad
sad
mad scared
All emotions are a
shade or a mix of
these 4.
4 basic
emotions
Which one
is your "default"--
even if not triggered
or warranted?
Feelings affect us
more than we
suspect, so its helpful
to know which one we
feel most frequently
or in general--for no
reason.
hurt
surprised
Feelings?
Intensity?
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