24 October 2022 On 21 October, a new cycle of the Young Professionals program started in Abdijhof Mariënkroon. In this programme, Socires organizes in collaboration with Stichting Thomas More, participating young people who graduated less than five years ago. Through discussions with people in important social positions, workshops and mutual discussions, they deepen their working lives.
The course focuses specifically on values from the Christian-social tradition and how to shape them in working life. Bishop Gerard de Korte of Den Bosch gave a lecture on the encyclical Laudato Si hindered, the encyclical of Pope Franciscus on ecology and justice and then talked to the participants about the underlying principles of the Catholic-social human image.
After dinner half of the group lived a by Josine Westerbeek-Huitink of Socires organised workshop on Laudato Si hindered in practice. The other half went in a workshop by Wilfried Verboom van Brevet van Acht in search of their core values, properties and virtues.
In the coming months, the Young Professionals will be talking to people in important positions about their experience of integrating values into their careers and how they have made their choices at important moments. In spring the cycle is closed.
Learn more about the Young Professionals Program Socires and Stichting Thomas More can be found here: https://www.thomasmore.nl/net-graduates/young-professionals-program/