Pedro Arrupe Formation Center for Educational Leaders
81-313 Gdynia, Tatrzańska 35tel/fax +48-58-6616582
email: centrum@arrupe.org
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Paweł Szpyrka SJ, a trainer of the Arrupe Center, have been ordained deacon in Warsaw on June 20, 2009 (on the photo below)

coming sessions
Conflict Resolution - Peer Mediation in Schools
Gdynia, 16-18 października 2009IJELP Conference on Leadership
Gdynia (POLAND) July 8-12, 2009..................our Special Guests:- Chris Lowney, author of "Heroic Leadership"
- Alfred Darmanin SJ, author of "Developing Leadership Skills" - Leadership in Organizations -- current trends
- Thomas Roach SJ (USA)
- Eric Bloemkolk (Holland) - Civil society and education: a needed combination



Bible Academy in Ukraine (June 19-21, 2009)
latest news
- Reflective teacher - workshop in Buczacz (Ukraine)
Buczacz, June 22-25, 2009 | 2009-06-27 07:17:56 -
Teachers from Ukrainian Catholic schools participated in a course led by the Arrupe Center in June 22-25, 2009. Participants, gathered in Bazilian monastery in Buczacz (Ukraine), were introduced to different models of staff development and they learned how to grow professionally and personally through reflection on their own experience. Two Arrupe Center trainers: Elżbieta Lauk and Wojciech Żmudziński SJ shared their experience in facilitating students' and teachers' growth. It was third meeting for the same group of teachers involved into leadership formation project promoted by the Patriarchal Commission of Catholic Education and supported financialy by Koch Foundation from USA and Magis Foundation from Poland. Two other meetings took place in Lviv (January 2009) and Ivano-Frankovsk (March 2009).

(more >>) - Workshop for Christian Ethics teachers
Lviv, June 19-21, 2009 | 2009-06-27 06:50:45 -
Today, June 21, 2009, a workshop for Ukrainian teachers of Christian Ethics was concluded. The topic was BIBLE IN TEACHING AND EVANGELIZATION. Almost 50 participants worked hard for three days and asked for future cooperation in frame of ARRPE CENTER BIBLE ACADAMY PROJECT and Biblical Formation promoted by the Pedagogical and Catechetical Institute of Ukrainian Catholic University.

(more >>) - IPP workshop at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv
Lviv, June 17-19, 2009 | 2009-06-25 13:38:35 -
On June 17, 2009, three days workshop for students and teachers from Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv began. The main topic is Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm.

(more >>) - Workshop for teachers in Ukraine
Ivano-Frankovsk, March 27-28, 2009 | 2009-03-27 13:19:27 -
A training session for teachers from Catholic schools in Ukraine has been started today. The training will be conducted by Krzysztof Durnaś from Łódz and the subject of the session is parent-teacher / parent-school cooperation. The Pedro Arrupe Center has been cooperating with Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church for over two years now, providing professional training on teaching methods as well as education management and administration to teachers and headmasters from the region.

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