Paul Vaz

WOMEN'S EDUCATION INITIATIVE- SEVA NIKETAN

2012-01-14T05:00:00.000-08:00

Inauguration of MIGRANT WORKERS SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM.
By improving educational opportunities for girls and women,SEVA NIKETAN helps women develop skills that allow them to make decisions and influence their workplace.

OSHIWARA YOUTH TRAINING CAMP - KHANDALA-DEC 2011

2011-12-28T01:28:00.000-08:00

DO NOT TRY TO CHANGE YOURSELF - YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED,
WORK TO IMPROVE THE WAY YOU PERFORM.(Peter Drucker)

What are my strengths?
How do I perform?
What are my values?
What should I contribute?

LOYOLA INSTITUTE OF SPIRITUALITY,ECOLOGY,& LEADERSHIP (LISEL),FORTHCOMING RETREATS/WORKSHOPS: 2011-2012

2011-12-26T05:13:00.000-08:00

2011:
Oct.6 : Oshiwara Youth Training Camp at Vasai
Oct.15-16: SOUL REFRESHMENT CIRCLE at Seva Niketan
Nov 2-6: Earth -Centered Healing Retreat at Baga, Goa
Nov 10-12: Servant Leadership : Aurangabad Diocese
Nov.23-29: Vietnam: XIMR-SIBME MOU
Dec.8-11:ECHR Bangalore, Claret Nivas
Dec.10-11:Training Camp for Youth at Khandala

2012:
Jan 21-22: Follow Up Goa Retreatants, Arrupe House, Raia
Jan 25-29: YOUTH ECHR at Xavier Retreat House,Baga ,Goa
Feb 9 : Vietnam Day,XIMR
Feb 18-19: Soul refreshment circle weekend for Mumbaites
Mar 15-18: "The Secret of Healing"- Malaysia
Mar 20-26: Formation workshops- Malaysia
Mar 30-April 1: "Find the Surprising Healer"- Malaysia
Apr 19-22: Bangalore, Earth Centered Healing Retreat
May 2-6 : Earth Centered Healing Retreat,Baga,Goa
May 8-16: Madurai Jesuits Retreat..Shembaganur.
May 21-22: National CLC - Ecology Seminar
June1-8: Gujarat Jesuits Retreat...

62nd EARTH RETREAT - BANGALORE- DEC.2011

2011-12-26T04:35:00.000-08:00

What a MIX of 30 people of all faiths, Hindus, Catholics,other churches, Believers speaking in Tamil,Hindi,English,Kannada,Konkani...Engineers,doctors,artist,teachers,professors...celebrating the GOD of Creation!

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing,living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too...(Chief Luther Standing Bear)

Next Bangalore retreat: April 19-22,2012
Contact Person: Alwyn Lobo: 9845014927

XIMR EXPLORATIONS IN VIETNAM

2011-12-25T22:54:00.000-08:00

INTERNSHIPS, FACULTY EXCHANGE, CULTURAL EXCHANGE.

VIETNAM DAY AT XIMR : FEBRUARY 9,2012

SERVANT LEADERSHIP SEMINAR, Aurangabad Social Service Society

2011-12-25T21:04:00.000-08:00

"Opportunities and challenges for a Servant Leader in a changing world"

61st Earth Retreat at Baga, Goa

2011-12-25T20:30:00.000-08:00

MORE YOUTH SEEKING GOD IN NATURE

Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet!

Earth Centered Healing Retreats (for all Faiths)

2011-10-23T23:06:00.000-07:00

A Four-Day experience to help you step out of the busyness of your everyday life and be aware of the inner rhythm of your Being!

FOCUS ON TWO ASPECTS:
1. Discovery of the Self and Self-Possession
2. Earth Consciousness and Rooted-ness

Self Discovery and Possession:
To get in touch with the Self; to heal the hurtful experiences that continue to bind and dominate our lives
Exploring One ’s Self
Relaxing and Unwinding
Healing the fragmented Self in a hurting world
Healing the whole person (Body-Mind-Spirit)
Gaining control (mastery) over Self

Earth Consciousness and Rooted-ness:
Finding the Sacred in all things!
Growing in Consciousness of the beauty and wonder of Mother
Earth/Creation
Understanding our connection (therefore Rooted ness and not alienation) with Creation
Caring for Mother Earth and sustaining her for future generations

Methodology/Process:
Meditation, Painting, Dancing, Celebrating, Quieting...

Advised complete SILENCE during sessions!

SOUL REFRESHMENT CIRCLE

2011-10-23T22:20:00.000-07:00

25 RETREATANTS MET AT SEVA NIKETAN ON 15-16TH OCTOBER.

Life giving water sources always have an incoming source and outgoing flow.If either of these stops,life stops.

Each of us needs to refreshed on a continual basis.Without refreshment, our well will ultimately run dry.

On the other hand,we are called to be the source of refreshment to others.There is a giving and receiving side to refreshment; we need both to experience true LIFE in Jesus Christ.

Do you need Refreshment,friend? Join the Soul Refreshment Circle.
We meet every two months.....
Next meeting : 18-19 February, 2012

WRSSF -LEADERSHIP & TEAM MGT. TRAINING

2011-10-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

2ND TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR DIRECTORS OF WESTERN REGION SOCIAL SERVICE FORUM

"IT IS AMAZING WHAT YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH, IF YOU DO NOT CARE WHO GETS THE CREDIT"

"A GOOD HEAD AND A GOOD HEART ARE ALWAYS A FORMIDABLE COMBINATION" (Mandela0

OSHIWARA YOUTH TRAINING CAMP AT VASAI

2011-10-23T12:28:00.000-07:00

"IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT"

"DO WHAT YOU CAN, WITH WHAT YOU HAVE,WHERE YOU ARE"

"LET'S CATCH UP"- ECHR FOLLOW UP,OSHIWARA

2011-09-04T03:28:00.000-07:00

"Let's Catch Up"....16 retreatants who attended the ECHR from North Mumbai met at Oshiwara. The theme was "Hope for the Flowers"...Next meet on Oct.15-16 at Seva Niketan.

ADVANCED TRAINING CAMP AT SEVA NIKETAN

2011-09-04T03:15:00.000-07:00

Advanced Skills Training Residential Workshop at Seva NIketan for Fisherfolk Girls in Embroidery,Tailoring,Screen Painting,Cooking and Bead Making....August 2011

MAKARERE STUDENTS AT XIMR

2011-09-04T03:04:00.000-07:00

Makarere University Business School (MUBS)students come to Mumbai for internships in Indian companies..part of the contract between XIMR and MUBS.

Women's Empowerment at Seva Niketan

2011-09-04T02:47:00.000-07:00

Basic Skills Training residential Program for Uttan Fisherfolk Girls in Tailoring,Beautician,Styling,Flower making, Acupressure...besides inputs in health,hygiene and family life

SURRENDER TO SILENCE RETREATS (S2S)

2011-05-30T04:32:00.001-07:00

SILENCE WILL REVEAL YOURSELF TO YOU

And in and through REVELATION you will discover GIFTS money cannot buy

WISDOM,PEACE, SERENITY, JOY, CONSOLATION

It is effortless to meet God

Not your efforts- It is a GIFT! "Only prepare and dispose yourself"

Therefore LET GO! RELAX! SURRENDER!

2CDs available : Surrender to Silence - I (Deep Relaxation Meditation)
Surrender to Silence - II (Our Father,Centering Meditation)

XIMR,1st Indian B-School for Africa

2011-05-30T04:20:00.000-07:00

XIMR Students for Africa with Fr.Paul,DG and Prof.Vaidyanathan,Director

XIMR STRATEGIC FOCUS:

Diversity, Emerging Markets, Social Responsibility

60th Earth Centered Healing Retreat,Goa.May 2011

2011-05-30T03:46:00.000-07:00

Look at the sea
that beats its waves upon the rocks.
Join in harmony with nature
praying,loving,journalling...

Climate Change,Challenge and Concern,
Look beyond your everyday affair
Listen to what God is telling you now!

2 Earth Retreats: Malaysia April 2011

2011-05-30T03:39:00.001-07:00

Tender is your mercy O God,
Steadfast is your love and regard!
Softly do you call me by name
Gently do you draw me to You.

4 WORKSHOPS, MALAYSIA - April 2011

2011-05-30T03:19:00.001-07:00

Workshops on Mission " How Much is enough? Making your Peace with money!"

NBCLC ECO-RETREAT : Nov.2010

2010-11-25T02:59:00.001-08:00

Pope Benedict XVI,"Nature is the expression of God's love for mankind, not a mere source of wealth and exploitation in human needs."

We see ourselves caught doing "not what I want, but the very thing I hate," Consume more,Dispose and buy now,Buy more stuff, Use it and throw it away," our Ecological Sin,says Paul.

Above is the Spider's Web in the shape of a Cross -the mystical dimension of creation.The Spirit-friend of Sr.Arpitha.

If we stand up for the things of God,
this world will not accept us.
But Stand up;Stand firm,God's creation is being destroyed!

HYMN OF THE UNIVERSE (Teilhard): OCT. 2010

2010-11-19T21:48:00.000-08:00

The Eucharist at the mountain top with the sound of waves crashing against the rocks and the lovely breeze whispering 'I love you' (sent by Priya).
This was the 56th Earth Centered Healing Retreat at Goa.

CAPETOWN RETREATANTS : HEALING SPACE

2010-10-20T01:26:00.000-07:00

FACULTY WORKSHOP, SOUTH AFRICA, SEPT.2010

2010-10-20T01:14:00.000-07:00

Inner Ecology Management Workshop for the Faculty of Sacred Heart College,Johannesberg, South Africa.

SOUTH AFRICA 5 HEALING WORKSHOPS :SEPT.2010

2010-10-20T01:09:00.001-07:00

"Healing the Earth" Workshops for the Students of Sacred Heart College,(RUN BY Marist Brothers) Johannesberg.
Interconnectedness between us,God and the Cosmos!

TAKING A GOD'S EYE VIEW: ECHR, MAY 2010

2010-05-26T23:10:00.000-07:00

This May 2010 Paul conducted the 50th.ECHR at Xavier Retreat House, Goa.Blessings and thanks to God for leading and guiding the retreats since 2003 together with all his other responsibilities.

A growing thirst for the Ignatian Spirituality in New Forms.The retreats show the way,how to give Ignatius to a New World - Laity,Youth,All Faiths and Corporates!

The 24 retreatants will campaign to conserve electricity,water,forests.Grow plants.Support Environmental NGOs.

2 Comments

LiFe_is_GooD said...
Hi Fr Paul,
The retreat sounds great.
Am sure all the participants enjoyed it...
May 24, 2010 12:43 AM

Your Blog is interesting. I was happily surprised to see you have done so much.Do keep space and time for yourself.You need it when you keep giving all the time.Angela
June 1, 2010 11:27 PM

TRAINING LAY SPIRITUAL GUIDES : MALAYSIA - MARCH 2010

2010-05-26T23:01:00.000-07:00

This year Paul gave the Advanced Enneagram,Soul of Leadership, and Ignatian Leadership to the Spiritual Guides.
He also conducted the Basic ECHR and the Ignatian 8-day retreat.

STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP : FRANCISCANS NORTH REGION -JAN. 2010

2010-05-26T22:32:00.000-07:00

Outcome: Consolidate our forces
and daringly push forward to new areas!

Mission-Values-Vision-Strategy

Paul is an experienced Process Guide. He has facilitated 15 Visioning (Strategic Planning) workshops in the Jesuit Provinces of Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia-Singapore, Eastern Africa,Kolkatta, Darjeeling, Goa,Sri Lanka, the Vedruna Congregation,the Fatima Congregation, the Franciscans,OFMs (India),De Nobili College-Pune.

NBCLC ECO-PERSONAL INTEGRATION RETREAT

2010-05-26T22:25:00.000-07:00

When the mind is at rest, the body is at rest!
When the body is at rest, the spirit flows!

SRI LANKAN JESUIT PROVINCE, APOSTOLIC DISCERNMENT & PLANNING AUGUST 2009

2010-05-26T21:42:00.000-07:00

OUR OPTIONS:
National Reconciliation
Interdisciplinary Research
Formation and Governance

Mission-Values-Vision-Strategy

FACILITATION & IGNATIAN LEADERSHIP TRAINING -ROME 2006

2009-04-10T02:49:00.000-07:00

IGNATIAN PERSPECTIVES :

1. EXAMEN - SELF AWARENESS leaders understand their strengths, weaknesses,values and update oneself on those daily.
2. CONTEMPLATION OF THE WORLD : the ability to confidently adapt to an ever changing world.
3. MAGIS :to remain energized by great ambitions,a passion to excel, and goals that are bigger than any one person.
4. CONTEMPLATION TO OBTAIN LOVE: Engage others and nature with a positive attitude that recognizes dignity, beauty and sustainability.Recognize the potential and seek to develop that potential.
5. PERSONAL & COMMUNITARIAN DISCERNMENT : "It is not so much what we can do that counts, but what we can trust God to do."

Paul has facilitated the World Assembly of the Christian Life Communities at Nairobi (2003), the General Assembly of the Secular Institute of Our Lady of the Way at Vienna (2006), the General Chapter of the Fatima Congregation,Pune (2007).
He has also teamed in conducting the International Leadership Course for the World CLC Leaders at Rome (2006).

A B-SCHOOL WITH A DIFFERENCE : Graded Formation in Management Science & Humanities

2009-04-07T01:29:00.000-07:00

XIMR - GRADED FORMATION IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE & HUMANITIES (This is our Jesuit Charism)

1) Consider your “inner ecology”

The practice of compassionate self-awareness: ‘caress your heart’;
Our sense of humor is it intoxicated with anger and arrogance?
Our gestures are they sometimes aggressive and ‘poisoned’?
Do you seek tolerance and forgiveness without sacrificing justice and respect for life?
How to be aware of the dignity of persons, whether they be ‘devoured by misery’ or lost in the illusion of nobility?

Process Workshops: Special Meditations, Painting, Dancing, Celebrating, Quieting...
This awareness is crucial, if we have to bring ourselves to our outer universe.

2) Consider your deeper sense of connection with the ecology (universe) around you

Through
Comparative Philosophy (thought processes across cultures & histories)
Comparative Religions and
Celebrating Diversity in Practice (Festivals/ Feasts in all their meaningful rituals)
Language and Culture (study of Spanish)
Sociology; Spirituality for Management.
Immersion in the Life of the Tribals for a week.

Paul Vaz is Director-General of the Xavier Institute of Management and Research (XIMR)which runs a full time 2-year Mumbai University MBA program and Management Development Programs(MDPs)
Refer: www.ximr.ac.in

Visioning Workshop, Nairobi- December 2008

2009-04-06T03:34:00.000-07:00

Organizational direction comes in several forms. The mission statement is your loftiest guiding light – and your least specific. As you work your way down the hierarchy, the statements become more concrete, practical, and ultimately unique. No other company will have the same strategy statement, which defines your competitive advantage, or balanced scorecard, which tracks how you implement your particular strategy.

MISSION
Why we exist

VALUES
What we believe in and how we will behave

VISION
What we want to be

STRATEGY
What our competitive game plan will be

The BASIC ELEMENTS
of a Strategy Statement
OBJECTIVE = Ends
SCOPE = Domain
ADVANTAGE = Means

BALANCED SCOREBOARD
How we will monitor and implement that plan

METHODOLOGY: Ignatian Communitarian Discernment

Paul is an experienced Process Guide. He has facilitated 15 Visioning (Strategic Planning) workshops in the Jesuit Provinces of Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia-Singapore, Eastern Africa,Kolkatta, Darjeeling, Goa,Sri Lanka, the Vedruna Congregation,the Fatima Congregation, the Franciscans,OFMs (India),De Nobili College-Pune.

New Healing Forms - Inner Ecology Management Workshops, South Africa - Jan 2009

2009-03-24T00:22:00.000-07:00

Paul Vaz held 3 workshops on "Inner Ecology Management" (New Healing Retreats) in January 2009 in South Africa.
Johannesberg (32 participants attended)
East London (49 participants attended)
Port Elizabeth (51 participants attended)
Capetown (36 participants attended)

There were business men and women, Professors, Teachers, young executives, students of accounting, advertising and marketing!

“The practice of compassionate self-awareness
Holistic Healing in a hurtful World
Affirmations: The Thinking of Jesus Himself
Visualization Prayer: The Mind Meets Jesus
Inner Healing : The Touch of Peace "

Coming Up - 3 Inner Ecology Management Workshops: Malaysia,India.