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| Photo: Bijaya Khadka / Young People for Development, Nepal, 2018 |
Meeting 14
1. Opening reflection
2. Minutes of last meeting
3. Review of life and action
What happened this week? It may be something that happened at work, or in the family. It may be a conversation or an article you read.
SEE
1. The facts? What exactly happened? What was your action in response?
2. The causes? What caused this to happen and why?
3. The consequences? How did it affect the people involved?
JUDGE
1. Your opinion? What are the good and bad things about this happening? And what about your action?
2. Your ideals? What do you think should be happening?
3. Your faith? What does it challenge you to do and be?
ACT
1. Long term aim? What exactly do you want to change?
2. Short term aim? What action could you take this week that would be a worthwhile step towards achieving this change?
3. Involving others? Who could you involve in your action?
4. General business
5. Closing prayer and social
Final Reflection
Dear Group,
You have now been meeting for three months and have done many things in your meetings.
1. If you look back at the first eight weeks you will see that each week we had a topic and discussed that.
2. Then in this second ‘Getting Organised’ stage we have put great emphasis on the Review of Life and Action (ROLA) – our most important means to achieve our aims as an SJA group.
3. I hope also that over these three months we have begun to go out together as a group sometimes – to socialise and deepen friendships.
The time has come to think about how we would like to run our meeting for the next period. Of course, every meeting will begin with ROLA. Many groups find that ROLA and general business fills their meetings. But other groups like to divide their meeting into two parts – ROLA and 'something else’.
Some coordination teams arrange it that they (president, secretary, treasurer and chaplain/assistant) are principally responsible for the ROLA. But they ask the other members to take turns to organise and lead the second part of the meeting.
Suppose you have been asked to do this work for next meeting – what will you do?
1. Choose some topic that you think will be very interesting to everyone. It could be a worker’s problem; it could be a social justice issue. Many SJA groups use this part of the meeting to hold a discussion based on the Christian Gospel or another religious or philosophical sources (Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim...).
2. Write out some questions that will be helpful for you to lead the discussion at the meeting. Be sure that you have clear ideas about what you want to discuss.
3. When it comes to the meeting, take your part as a leader. Be confident and achieve your aims. You will learn many things and grow in many skills through this – overcoming shyness, speaking in public, power to lead a meeting etc.