Core

Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP)

A framework consisting of five key features: context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation.

Multidisciplinary

Combining or involving more than one discipline or field of study.

Transdisciplinarity

An approach that integrates knowledge and methods from different disciplines across a common theme.

Empathy

The ability to recognize, understand and share the thoughts and feelings of another person.

Perspective Taking

The act of seeing a situation from the speaker's viewpoint, reducing the likelihood of implicit bias.

Difference between Empathy and Sympathy

Empathy involves understanding and sharing feelings, while sympathy conveys pity or feelings of sorrow for someone else's misfortune.

Grief

The experience of coping with loss.

Seven Professional Formation Competencies (PFCs)

-skills including problem solving with curiosity

-developing career management skills

-collaborating for solidarity

-communicating ethically, leading for the common good

-committing to justice

-adapting in disciplines and technology.

Role of empathy in grief

Empathic communication restores power and agency to the griever, placing them at the center of conversations.

Four components of Empathy (Theresa Wiseman)

1. Perspective taking 2) Staying out of judgment 3) Identifying what the person is feeling 4) Demonstrating care.

The Quest

A plot archetype where the protagonist sets out on an adventure to find something important, facing trials and challenges.

Rags to Riches

A plot where the protagonist rises from poverty to wealth and status, facing challenges along the way.

Tragedy

A plot that involves a hero with a major character flaw that leads to their downfall.

Comedy

A genre characterized by humor and a happy ending, where adversity is overcome.

Rebirth

A plot where a significant event causes the main character to transform and often become a better individual.

Helpful strategies in demonstrating care

Empathic communication that allows the griever to feel empowered and centered in their experience.

Definition of Sympathy

Conveying commiseration or pity for someone experiencing misfortune without having shared their experience.