The ongoing meeting of the formators (postnovitiate stage) of East and South Asia in Thailand, seems an interesting one. Am reminded of the formation meetings I attended years ago. Some of them were very challenging. Not just the content but it was more about looking into ourselves. The shift from focusing on what we should be telling and doing with our students to who we ourselves should be, made a big impact on me.
For quite sometime it was all about information: what we should do, how we should form the students, rules, policies, documents... and all that. But at some point it struck me that if I am not that ideal person or atleast not making the effort to become the ideal one I'm trying to form, then how can I expect my student to be so? Then on the meetings were more of forming myself rather than 'becoming a formator'. Be and thereby form. Or better, 'witnessing as formation'. Was reminded of the same this morning when I read a statement made on behalf of a formee, from the ongoing meeting in Thailand.
For quite sometime it was all about information: what we should do, how we should form the students, rules, policies, documents... and all that. But at some point it struck me that if I am not that ideal person or atleast not making the effort to become the ideal one I'm trying to form, then how can I expect my student to be so? Then on the meetings were more of forming myself rather than 'becoming a formator'. Be and thereby form. Or better, 'witnessing as formation'. Was reminded of the same this morning when I read a statement made on behalf of a formee, from the ongoing meeting in Thailand.
Today we will say, what you are telling us. But tomorrow we will do, what you are doing now!
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