For more than four decades, ISACC has trained thousands of development practitioners as well as pastors and church leaders on what it means to do wholistic or Integral Mission. Under this rubric are non-formal courses on ISACC’s thematic interests: gospel and culture issues, social development, communication across cultures and witness to society in general. As a training and capacity-building organization, ISACC has trained more than 200 churches and faith-based development organizations in community development under its Hasik-Unlad program, which has for its theme, ‘The church as an agent of change.’
ISACC’s Transformational Development course has trained thousands of practitioners and emerging leaders into understanding Integral Mission and development. This program has spawned and inspired the setting up of many faith-based organizations that now serve the poor. ISACC has likewise sent training teams to Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos under the auspices of Open Doors, an organization that serves church communities in restricted contexts. Currently, the organization is pioneering ASTRAD or the Asian School of Transformational Development to train development practitioners who wish to have formal training under its Masteral degree programs, namely an MA in Transformational Development, MA in Cross-Cultural Studies and MA in Social Entrepreneurship.
The following short courses are run seasonally or upon request of organizations:
A seminar for pastors, missionaries and church workers wishing effective witness. Topics include Biblical Perspectives on Culture, Entering Filipino Culture, Critical Contextualization, Witnessing to Filipinos, Philippine Church History, and Issues Facing the Filipino Church.
This 2-week course helps development managers and field practitioners to think biblically and apply Christian values in their management and community development processes.
The course has two modules:
Module 1: Theological perspectives and socio-cultural approaches in doing development, with Dr. William Dyrness, theologian, and Dr. Melba Padilla Maggay, social anthropologist, leading a team of management, finance and community development experts speaking on their fields of experience.
Module 2: Practical approaches to poverty-reduction and social change. Features a survey of Christian social teachings and movements through the centuries, to be done by the missiologist-historian Dr. Andrew Walls, with local experts speaking on climate change and psycho-spiritual approaches to disaster response, globalization and modernization, microfinance and poverty-reduction, advocacy and socio-political change. It will also feature case studies from Latin America and Africa.
A unique feature of the course is that it assembles a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team of globally experienced experts and practitioners under one roof for a rich and spiritually refreshing two weeks. In keeping with wholism, the seminar provides space for corporate Bible meditation, spiritual growth and a sense of solidarity and community.
Development practitioners in the Asia region are encouraged to attend. Discounts for early bird registrants. Limited scholarships are available.
Designed for pastors, church workers and faith-based organizations seeking to understand Integral Mission and how it actually operates in mission and development work.
Topics included are: Integral Mission Framework; Biblical Reflections on Wholism; Coaching for a more Integrated Development Work.
MAKING FILIPINO CULTURE WORK FOR YOU
Designed to help corporate executives, development managers, HRD practitioners, civil servants, missionaries, and other expatriates working in the Philippines to deepen their understanding of Filipino culture and how it operates in the workplace.
This is a 3-day seminar for writers and media practitioners who wish to write with a Christian mind and discern issues from a biblical perspective.
Features topics like Discipling the Mind, The Cultural Mandate and Media Practice, and Elements of Good Writing. It also provides space for practical writing exercises, coaching and critiquing from fellow writers and experts, and conceptual tools for biblical reflection on contemporary issues. Recommended for advanced writers.
Helps churches and organizations to be aware of the spiritual dimensions and processes involved in deepening their practice of ministry. Through contemplative disciplines like silence and meditation on the Word, it ushers people towards rest and restoration, back to the center of who they are as people and as organizations, which is as members of a spiritual community. It provides space for corporate reflection on pressing issues and areas of tension in the workplace and accompanies participants in discerning their movement towards wholeness.
A value formation seminar for employees in both public and private sectors, helping management and workers alike to develop values and a work ethic that makes for efficiency, excellence and global competitiveness.
OUR TRAINING DISTINCTIVES.....
FLEXIBLE AND CUSTOMIZED.
As a standard practice, ISACC tailor-fits its trainings and seminars to the inviting organization and participants’ needs and specifications. The modules may be adjusted accordingly.
COACHING FOR SUSTAINED CHANGE.
ISACC also provides coaching support to organizations as a form of after-care to help sustain their efforts in bringing about wellness in their workplace.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESOURCE POOL OF TRAINERS.
ISACC maintains a resource pool of Fellows, local and international, who are mostly social scientists and theologians engaged in development, value education, social entrepreneurship, leadership and management consultancy, and cross-cultural research and training.
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