Hermitage, School for Educators

Educators of Marist centres of the Compostela province meet for the fifteenth time during a four week formation experience, separated throughout the school year and with a fifth week in Hermitage during summer.

The beginning of November marked the fifteenth advancement of “Hermitage, Escuela de Educadores (Hermitage, School of Educators – HEE),” made up of 29 educators. The first week of this experience was held in Roxos, Santiago de Compostela, and on Saturday, Feb. 4, the second week of formation ended in Miraflores, Burgos.

The HEE is a unique opportunity to discover one’s self, to encounter the meaning of life, work, and one’s own vocation in the heart of the Marist family.

Based on self-knowledge and on coming near to Jesus, the group reflected on its mission as Marist educators and became aware that the school that evangelizes is the school that is Good News itself, due to the atmosphere that one breathes, the relationships that are generated, due to what is said, what is valued and the way the most important thing is cared for: the dignity of each person.

In the words of one of the participants of the HEE, it is “a very good experience, you arrive tired for different reasons that form a part of your day to day live and there you leave it aside to take care of yourself, meet new people, and for experiences that enrich you as a person and as a teacher. You stop to think about yourself and things you like. For me it was a break I needed at the right time.”