2022 a year of sport at FGE

2022 was a very eventful year for us at FGE in terms of sporting activities. Over the course of the year, a series of online and in-presence meetings were organised for the Network’s Sports Educators which produced extremely positive results. FGE’s Sports training project is aimed at defining the increasingly central role played by the sports educators, systematically seeking to identify his or her specific responsibilities and characteristics within the framework of our pedagogical structure. Our training seminars are also designed with the objective of instilling a strong sense of sharing and versatility among the different groups, this methodology effectively fostering the concept of networking between our Sporting Societies.

The participants who have attended our seminars recount that they always leave at the end of the training days wearing “a new pair of spectacles”, having shared “extremely moving and intense experiences together”. Meeting on common ground in this way gives rise to the possibility of “being able to compare personal experiences and stories that assume a very special significance for the listener”.

2023 sees the introduction of new seminars, which in turn announce further new experiences and the vital progression of our educational project, ever closely attentive to the principles and values of Ignatian pedagogy applied to education through sport. A number of seminars have already been planned for this year, and we are confident that they will likewise be fundamental in ensuring the continued growth of our educational project and of the educators who will participate in these events.

First on the agenda is the forthcoming Educare Allenando 1 (Education through Coaching) seminar, which will be held on Saturday 25 March at the Leone XIII facilities in Milan with a new group of coaches coming from a variety of different sports disciplines. There will also be a number of new sports clubs participating for the first time, with sports educators hailing from Bari, Messina and Naples.