What is the Kolvenbach Solidarity Program?Honoring the former Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. Solidarity Program offers students, faculty, staff, and alumni extended immersion experiences into the gritty reality of our globalizing world. Through this direct contact, we seek to realize the Jesuit Higher Education Mission – restated and renewed by Father Kolvenbach at the 2000 Justice Conference – of forming women and men of well-educated solidarity. Immersion experiences in El Salvador, Ecuador, Mexico, and parts of the US unfamiliar to our participants, are designed to help participants see the world with new eyes, to recognize the unjust suffering of marginalized communities and individuals, and to allow those experiences to inform their vocational discernment. Following Father Kolvenbach’s lead, we strive to empower our participants to let the reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering, and engage it constructively. These immersion experiences, and the profound reflection to which they naturally give rise, are privileged moments of vocational discernment during which participants are uniquely invited to consider their place in the world. Positioned alongside the Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Partnerships for Community-based Learning and the Bannan Institute for Jesuit Educational Mission, the Kolvenbach Solidarity Program benefits from the rich tradition of contemplatives in action. |
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