Lasallian Best Practices (1)

The latest Cluster visit, which brought together a group of Brothers and Lasallian Partners leading the Lasallian Mission in various Regions and Districts worldwide, provided a fitting opportunity to share some best practices. In this first instalment, we share three of them.

“In the Lasallian District of Bogotá, we have made a point of working together as a network”, says its Visitor, Brother Cristhian Díaz. “We know very well that pedagogical knowledge is important; didactic knowledge is too; as is religious knowledge”, and that is why “we want to promote this sharing of knowledge more and more”.

In this way, networking makes it possible “to bring quality education to many places, especially the most remote ones, where we serve children, young people and adults”, adds Brother Cristhian, for which the District has “a group of teachers committed to these educational contexts”.

In the District of Central Europe, the meetings where “different people from leadership teams come together” have been very inspiring, to share the mission through “intercultural exchange and what has come to be known as ‘cross-pollination’”, remarks Julia Mayer, underlining that this is how “we all learn from different contexts”.

For his part, Thomas Capka highlights that these spaces are conducive to addressing various topics such as “vocation, the Lasallian Association, formation issues and, in particular, synodal decision-making processes” which lead to “further progress in this synodal form of leadership within the Lasallian world”.

Finally, the Visitor of the Congo-Kinshasa District, Brother Pie Nsukula Bavingidi, stresses that, in communion with the Institute, “we welcome and put the 1La Salle initiative into practice”, which means accepting that “we are one in La Salle”. 

Hence, for the Lasallians of his District, “1La Salle means that we join hands to uphold the Lasallian Educational Mission together and by association, and when we join hands, we leave no one behind and we become strong (…) to keep the flame of the mission burning in Congo-Kinshasa”, concludes Br. Pie.