1 Saturday Devo: None EG: Hi/Lo; “6-Day Visit To Rural African Village” & “The Cost of Short-Term Missions”; Expectations Sunday Devo: A Prayer for Spiritual Freedom EG: Hi/Lo; Seeing God in All Things; God Moment; A Personal Prayer of Pedro Arrupe Monday Devo: Answering the Call EG: Hi/Lo/God; Hat Questions; Closing Prayer; Dedicated Journaling Time Tuesday Devo: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer EG: (Filler Night, Can Use Four Corners); Hi/Lo/God Wednesday Devo: Welcoming Prayer EG: Capture today in…; Expectations Met?; Why Are Things This Way? Thursday Devo: Unfinished Symphonies EG: Reflection Questions; Thank You Cards; Hi/Lo/God; Dedicated Journaling Time Friday Devo: First Noble Truth EG: Noble Truths Discussion; Meditation on Loving-kindness; Hi/Lo/God Saturday Devo: Prayer of Archbishop Oscar Romero EG: What, So What, Now What? Sunday Monday Tuesday Affirmations 2 Saturday

Morning Devotional: None

Evening Gathering: Hi/Lo “6-Day Visit To Rural African Village” & “The Cost of Short Term Missions” Starter Questions: What were your first reactions? Do you think there’s some truth to The Onion article? Do you think it’s bad to share your trip like that on social media? Do you think we should have just sent out our money over? Critical about coming back an talking about how it changed us, do you think that’s a bad thing? “Short-term groups are also unable to do effective evangelism” because of cultural and language barriers, is this true? Should we be evangelizing? “Third-world people do not need more rich Christians coming to paint their church and make them feel inadequate.” How does that make you feel? “They do need more humble people willing to share in their lives and sacrifices.” How can we be humble? How can we enter into this solidarity of their lives and sacrifices? “…stop thinking about short-term missions as a service to perform and start thinking of them as a responsibility to learn.” How can we do this? Lets save the discussion about the changes after we’re done for later this week.

Expectations: I expect the people ____. I expect the the living conditions ____. I expect my reaction ___. I expect the work ____. I expect the reason ____. Share one or two that you think we may want to hear We’ll be collecting them from you afteward

Don’t Anticipate, Participate Thought we have all these expectations, encourage you not to anticipate, just participate Having an idea of what is going to happen can be fine, but having too many expectations is problematic

Closing Prayer 3 Sunday Morning Devotional: A Prayer for Spiritual Freedom O Spirit of God, we ask you to help orient all our actions by your inspirations, carry them on by your gracious assistance, that every prayer and work of ours may always begin from you and through you be happily ended.

Evening Gathering: Hi/Lo Seeing God in All Things Jesuits - Society of Jesus, religious community in Catholic church started by Ignatius of Loyola Focused on educating men and women for others, social justice, and ecumenical dialogue Central theme is finding God in all things

Matteo Ricci - Italian Jesuit priest who operated around time of Protestant Reformation Was a missionary to China with unique approach, learned how to read and write Chinese Learned about their culture, history, literature, etc. so that he could properly engage them Used preexisting Confucian ideas to explain Christianity He came to bring Christianity to them, but he found that Christ as already present and working there He was criticized a the time for his “radical” thinking

Now the tone has changed from “speaking to” to “speaking with” Current theological understanding is that “God is present and has been revealing himself to all humanity throughout history in diverse and hidden way” These trips are not just about bringing Christ to these people through our words and actions It’s about letting Christ speak to us through them, taking the good elements of this culture and these people and allowing it to renew us Mentioned earlier that a central theme of the Jesuits is finding God in all things How do we do that this week It’s easy to find it in Mass, prayer, ourselves, etc. but it is also in all of creation We can grow in this ability to see God, or goodness, in all things by practicing attention, reverence, and devotion We’re going to practice attention, reverence, and devotion now through a sort of meditation, reflecting on the day So start by closing your eyes and looking back on your day Perhaps pick a specific moment in the day, one that was different for you, maybe something that challenged you If you start to find a specific event too challenging to process right now, back out a little and look more at the overarching day But if you can find a feeling or moment to focus on that’s great So take a few moments and think back on your day 4 We start with: Attention - Let this item, this person, this moment be as genuinely itself as it can be Don’t intrude upon its reality, keep your fears, biases, preconceived notions, all of that out of it Let it be as it is We move to: Reverence - Focus on it, and accept its reality, cherish it, esteem it Hold back judgement, assessment, or even response Accept it We finish with: Devotion - See how God is moving in this person, this moment, whatever this is, see how God is present Look at the good and fragility, beauty and truth, pain and anguish, wisdom and ingenuity See God

Relax and continue the process, when you're ready open your eyes

God Moment: On these trips, in addition to the Lo/Hi, we often incorporate a moment closest to go God So now that we've gone though these steps, does anyone care to share where they saw God today? Try be attentive, reverent, and devoted throughout the week. A Personal Prayer of Pedro Arrupe: Grant me, O Lord, to see everything now with new eyes, to discern and test the spirits that help me read the signs of the times, to relish the things that are yours, and to communicate them to others. Give me clarity of understanding. 5 Monday: Morning Devotional: Answering the Call Genesis 9:20-21 - Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent. 2 Samuel 11:2-4 - One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba ... wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. 1 Kings 19:3-5 - Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” Luke 22:56-60 - Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with [Jesus].” But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of [the disciples].” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.” And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with [Jesus], for he too is a Galilean.” But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.

Like the first one, only remember hearing cute stuff about animals two by two, not Noah wasted Guess parents don’t want to tarnish the image of biblical heroes Something important though Important to know that these people were just as messed up as us, if not more, but they still answered a call God thought Noah, a naked drunk, was righteous enough to survive the flood David and Bathsheba, an adulterous couple, later gave birth to Solomon the Wise Elijah, a prophet on the brink of suicide, went on to anoint a new generation leaders Simon Peter, the one who denied Christ, later set the foundation of the church So don’t think because of your problems, your weaknesses, your fears, that you’ll be useless here Never been comfortable with the idea that God has “a plan” but he does give us invitations You’ve answered one by being here, don't let that go to waste

Evening Gathering: Question from the Hat Everyone pulls questions from a hat and answers them

Lo/Hi/God 6 Tuesday Morning Devotional: When I Hear the Learn’d Astronomer - Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

We get a great education at Gannon, teach us about CST, social justice, etc. But like this soon, “how soon unaccountable” we become And that’s why we’re here, to encounter the reality of that which we’ve been taught

Evening Gathering: (Filler Night, Can Use Four Corners) Hi/Lo/God 7 Wednesday Morning Devotional: The Welcoming Prayer Gently become aware of your body and your interior state. Become aware of what is troubling you or occupying your mind, sadness, anger, fear, etc. Focus on your feelings, both cognitively and physically. Rather than resisting, feeling ashamed, or denying them, welcome the truth of what is bothering you Welcome feelings of curiosity and compassion.

Prayer: Welcome, welcome, welcome, everything that comes to me in this moment, for I know it is for my healing. I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons, situations, and conditions.

I let go of my desire for security, survival. I let go of my desire for approval, affection and esteem from others. I let go of my desire for control, power over the situation and the need to be right.

I let go of my desire to change any situation, condition, person, or myself.

Repeat: I let go of the desire for security, affection, control. I let go of the desire to change this feeling and sensation.

I open to the love and presence of God and God’s action and grace within me.

I am where I need to be. Everything around me includes and hides the sacred.

So that your Love, Your Light, and Your Spirit may be manifested in the all of my life; the motives and desire of my heart, the choices I make and the steps I take. Amen

Evening Gathering: Capture Today In… Express you day in one face, noise, or motion Does anyone care to explain?

Expectations Met? Pass the expectation cards back out

Why Are Things This Way? Discussion using excerpts from: “Why Is Zambia So Poor” - Michael Hobbes, Pacific Standard, 12 Sep 2013 8

“Lots of people here in Kitwe have been laid off … and they send their kids into the city to sell clothes, water, fruit, whatever they can arbitrage for a few extra kwachas.” “30 percent of government jobs are funded but are sitting empty because they can’t find someone with the skills to fill them. Or at least they can’t at the salaries being offered.” “For most Zambians—say everyone and you’re only off by only a few percentage points—this is the job market, these are your options: Farming a small plot of land or selling consumer products a few at a time.”

“Sixty-four percent of the population lives on less than $1 per day, 14 percent have HIV, 40 percent don’t have access to clean drinking water. Almost 90 percent of women in rural areas cannot read or write. Name a category—schools, health care, environment—and I’ll give you statistics that will depress the shit out of you.”

“And then there’s the Chinese. They arrived like a well-packed picnic, everything in shipping crates ready to be unpacked. Their own materials, their own equipment, their own workers, their own fences. If you were designing a foreign investment not to benefit the host community, this is what it would look like.”

“In rural areas, women do most of the farming, but the men are the ones who go to the market, sell the crops, pocket the money. Before they even get home, many of those kwachas have already disappeared into beer, sunglasses, and brand names. The wives have to resort to asking nicely for money for school fees, medicines, next season’s seeds and fertilizers.”

“Ninety-four percent of the land in Zambia is customary or traditional, no one has a title to it. It’s not just sitting there, people are living on it, farming, grazing animals, it’s just technically under the control of a chief. The word chief conjures up images of thatched huts and grass skirts, but the chiefs in Zambia are more like governors. They get a government salary, they wear suits, some of them live in the capital.”

“Today, all of the mines are private. Zambia’s GDP growth has been above six percent for over a decade, riding the wave, as always, of increasing copper prices. Copper is 40 percent of Zambia’s GDP and 95 percent of its exports, but little of that money makes it here. The stats identify Switzerland as Zambia’s primary export market. This is not an indicator that Zambia hosts a thriving chocolate and suspenders sector, but rather that its copper trades are booked in the jurisdiction where they are least likely to be taxed. Many of the mining companies pay just 0.6 percent royalties to Zambia, far below the already-meager industry standard of three percent.”

“Men in suits appear from out of nowhere (well, out of the U.S., Europe, or South Africa) commit to build schools and hospitals, then disappear, letter to the District in hand, never to be heard from again. The companies aren’t required to disclose the size of the land they purchase, the length of the lease, or the procedure they followed to get it. The people living on the land are in the dark until one day a company man knocks on their door with a deed to it and, if they’re lucky, a payout if they agree to leave”

“You know how when a football player gets big, he buys his mom a house and hires all his buddies to be his managers and security guards? From what everyone here tells me, the Zambian equivalent of the NFL is national politics. It goes as high up as you want to follow it. Michael Sata, the president of Zambia, appointed his uncle the finance minister, his nephew the deputy finance minister, his niece the local government minister, and cousins as ambassador to Japan and chief justice.”

“It’s easy to paint all of the problems in Zambia with this brush, to talk about kleptocrats wringing their privilege for as much income, as many perks, as they can squeeze. But even if Zambia was run by a coalition of charitable technocrats and Mormon philanthropists, that wouldn’t solve the most fundamental problem of all: There simply isn’t that much money to go around.”

“In 2011, Zambia spent a total of $4.3 billion running itself. Stretch that to cover every man, woman, and child, and it amounts to just $325 per person per year. That amount—less than a dollar per person per day—has to cover education, health care, infrastructure, law enforcement, foreign debt ... everything.”

“It’s incredibly difficult for a poor country to go about getting un-poor. Just when you think you’ve got the right narrative, another one comes bursting out of the footnotes. It’s the informality. No, it’s the taxes. No, it’s the mining companies. No, it’s the regulators.”

“You can’t fix the land issues without tackling the corruption. You can’t fix the corruption without tackling the politics. You can’t fix the politics without addressing the culture. Thomas’ family told him his nephews didn’t need to be in school. From their perspective, that’s not totally irrational. In a country with so few formal jobs and so much competition for getting them, I can see how spending hundreds of hours, thousands of kwachas, on education would seem superfluous. Thomas’ daughter wants to become a lawyer. You could almost forgive Thomas if he told her that the bar exam failure rate is more than 90 percent, so what’s the use?” 9 Thursday Morning Devotional: Unfinished Symphonies - Karl Rahner In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we come to understand that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.

As we come to the end of the week you may feel restless with what we have accomplished There is so much to do, and so little time But we should not be restless and find solace in the truth that Karl Rahner speaks, that all symphonies remain unfinished

Evening Gathering: Reflection Questions: What support does our partner family have? What does our partner family seem to value? What choices does our partner family have? What choices do they not have? What difference do you think our work with Habitat is making for this family? What would make this community a better place to live? What do a person’s living conditions say about them? What do your living conditions say about you? What questions does this trip raise for you? Do you wish your community at home resembled this community in any way? How? What has helped our team forge community? After this week, how do you define “community”? How has this experience been meaningful to you? Did you learn a new skill or clarify an interest? Did you hear, smell, feel anything that surprised you? What feelings or thoughts seem most strong today? How is your experience different from what you expected? What struck you about that? How was that significant? What impacts the way you view the situation/experience? (What lens are you viewing from?) What do the critical incidents mean to you? How did you respond to them? What did you like/dislike about the experience? Did the “service” empower the recipient to become more self-sufficient? What did you learn about the people/community that we served? What might impact the recipient’s views or experience of the project? What are some of the pressing needs/issues in the community? How does this project address those needs? How, specifically, has the community benefited? What is the least impact you can imagine for the project? With unlimited creativity, what is the most impact on the community that you can imagine? In what ways did the group work well together? What does that suggest to you about the group? How might the group have accomplished its task more effectively? In what ways did others help you today? (and vice versa) How were decisions made? Were everybody’s ideas listened to? Thank You Cards Get a card with your name on it, then pass it to the person beside you Get one minute to write a thank you to them Card stop when your card has reached the person beside you, they read you your card Lo/Hi/God 10 Friday:

Morning Devotional: First Noble Truth According to Buddhist tradition the very first teaching of Buddha after his enlightenment was the Four Noble Truths Now this, my friends, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in short, life is suffering suffering. Now don’t let this depress you, even in Buddhist tradition there’s a happy ending But reflect on this at some point today and wonder if the First Noble Truth is right, is live suffering?

Evening Gatering: Noble Truths Analysis Talked about First Noble Truth which is: Life is suffering Word comes from the term Dukkha and suffering is just a butchered translation of it But it is some kind of suffering, a discontentment, a dis-ease The Second Noble Truth is that the first is caused by Tanha, which is craving or desire Some suffering is necessary, like hunger, but what Tanha is, is selfish desire The Third Noble Truth the cure to life’s suffering is to overcome selfish cravings And finally the Fourth Noble Truth is that the way to overcome is the Eightfold Path, which is a part of their religion So while the premise or basic understanding of life seems rather pessimistic, there is hope and a light The Four Noble Truths come from the classic model of Indian medicine with Buddha as the physician The truth of suffering, the truth of origin, the truth of cessation, the truth of the path Question: So what do you think, is life suffering? We can look at the good, but lets look at the suffering we see, what is the truth of origin, is it selfish desire? Could it be the selfish desire of others, not necessarily themselves? What is the source of suffering? Clearly these things must stop, but what could be their truth of the path? (stay away from yourself into it) In Buddhist tradition the Eightfold Path is the way to end suffering, the Bible perhaps for Christians, but lets apply it literally: What is the path to end suffering in Zambia?

Meditation on Loving-kindness: Metta We’re going to end with a Buddhist meditation, so please close your eyes

Be still and peaceful. Repeat aloud: Glory to God, the father of all creation. Glory to God, the mother of all creation. Glory to God

Repeat aloud: I go to God for refuge I go to Christ for peace I go to the Spirit for guidance

Think thus: My mind is temporarily pure, free from all impurities; free from lust, hatred and ignorance; free from all evil thoughts My mind is pure and clean. Like a polished mirror is my stainless mind. As a clean and empty vessel is filled with pure water I now fill my clean heart and pure mind with peaceful and sublime thoughts of boundless loving-kindness over-flowing compassion, sympathetic joy and perfect equanimity. I have now washed my mind and heart of anger, ill will, cruelty, violence, jealousy, envy, passion and aversion. 11 Repeat silently: May I be well and happy! May I be free from suffering, disease, grief, worry and anger! May I be strong, self-confident, healthy and peaceful!

Think thus: Now I charge every particle of my system, from head to foot, with thoughts of boundless loving-kindness and compassion. I am the embodiment of loving-kindness and compassion. My whole body is saturated with loving-kindness and compassion. I am a stronghold, a fortress of loving-kindness and compassion. I am nothing but loving-kindness and compassion. I have sublimated myself, elevated myself, ennobled myself.

Repeat silently: May I be well and happy! May I be free from suffering, disease, grief, worry and anger! May I be strong, self-confident, healthy and peaceful!

Think thus: Mentally I create an aura of loving-kindness around me. By means of this aura, I cut off all negative thoughts, hostile vibrations. I am not affected by the evil vibrations of others. I return good for evil, loving-kindness for anger, compassion for cruelty, sympathetic joy for jealously. I am peaceful and well-balanced in mind. Now I am a fortress of loving- kindness, a stronghold of morality.

What I have gained I now give unto others.

Think of all your near and dear ones at home, individually or collectively, and fill them with thoughts of loving-kindness and wish them peace and happiness, repeating May all beings be well and happy! ... Then think of all seen and unseen beings, living near and far, men, women, animals and all living beings, in the East, West, North, South, above and below, and radiate boundless loving-kindness, without any enmity or obstruction, towards all, irrespective of class, creed, colour or sex. Think that all are your brothers and sisters, fellow-beings in the ocean of life. You identify with all. You are one with all.

Repeat seven times: "May all beings be well and happy," and wish them all peace and happiness. In the course of your daily life try to translate your thoughts into action as occasion demands. 12 Saturday Morning Devotional: Prayer of Archbishop Oscar Romero It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, It is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, Which is another way of saying that The Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that should be said. No prayer fully expressed our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything. This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, Knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produced effects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything, And there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, A step along the way, An opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, But that is the difference Between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, Ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future that is not our own. Amen.

Evening Gathering: What? So What? Now What? What Without judgement or interpretation, describe what happened, what you saw & felt, the interactions you had Describe the experience So What What did you learn? What difference did this make? Analyze the experience Now What Last night we talked about what’s next for the community, now lets talk about you Has this changed you? How will you think or act in the future as a result of this experience? Be aware to strike a balance between realistic, reachable goals and openness to spontaneity and change Letter to Self Write a short letter to yourself reminding you about the changes you want to make based on your experience 13 Sample Questions: What seem to be the root causes of the issue addressed? What other work is currently happening to address the issue? What learning occurred for you in this experience? How can you apply this learning? What would you like to learn more about, related to this project or issue? What follow-up is needed to address any challenges or difficulties? What information can you share with your peers or the community? If you could do the project again, what would you do differently? What seem to be the root causes of the issue/problem addressed? What kinds of activities are currently taking place in the community related to this project? What contributes to the success of projects like this? What hinders success? What learning occurred for you in this experience? How can you apply this learning? What would you like to learn more about, related to this project or issue? What follow-up is needed to address any challenges or difficulties? What information can you share with your peers or community volunteers? If you were in charge of the project, what would you do to improve it? If you could do the project again, what would you do differently? What would “complete” the service? 14 History: British colonized, border disputes between British and Belgians British put blue paint on trees around border, Belgians cut down the trees and drove beacons into the ground All because of the copper industry 1890 colonist Cecil Rhodes came with the British South Africa Company and named it Northern Rhodesia 1964 they voted for independence from Britain Became only country to start Olympics as one country and finish as another Zambia’s economy tied to copper and over next 35 years copper prices slumped Mines used to be government controlled, then they privatized

Extra Reflection Materials

What is your role at the community site? What were your initial expectations? Have these expectations changed? How? Why? What about your community involvement has been an eye-opening experience? How do you motivate yourself to go to your site when you don't feel like it? What specific skills have you used at your community site? Describe a person you've encountered in the community who made a strong impression on you, positive or negative. Do you see benefits of doing community work? Why or why not? Has your view of the population with whom you have been working changed? How? How has the environment and social conditions affected the people at your site? What institutional structures are in place at your site or in the community? How do they affect the people you work with? Has the experience affected your worldview? How? Have your career options been expanded by your service experience?Why does the organization you are working for exist? Did anything about your community involvement surprise you? If so, what? What did you do that seemed to be effective or ineffective in the community? How does your understanding of the community change as a result of your participation in this project? How can you continue your involvement with this group or social issue? How can you educate others or raise awareness about this group or social issue? What are the most difficult or satisfying parts of your work? Why? Talk about any disappointments or successes of your project. What did you learn from it? During your community work experience, have you dealt with being an "outsider" at your site? How does being an "outsider" differ from being an "insider"? How are your values expressed through your community work? What sorts of things make you feel uncomfortable when you are working in the community? Why? Complete this sentence: Because of my service-learning, I am….

“The What?”, “So What?, Now What?” Model: This is a way of conceptualizing and structuring a reflection session; its three steps are outlined below. The What? Step one pertains to the substance of the group interaction and what has happened to each individual. It deals with facts, occurrences and leads naturally into interpretation. Some questions in this category include the following: What did you observe today? What happened today? What did each of you do? Who did you meet today and how would you describe them? The So What? Step two pertains to the difference the experience made to individuals. It looks at the consequences of the day's actions and gives meaning to them. Members of the group abstract and generalize what they are learning and shift from the descriptive into the interpretive. At this point the questions asked are usually the following: What did your experience mean to you? How do you feel about what happened today? What did you learn from today? The Now What? 15 Step three involves the process of taking lessons learned from the experience and reapplying them to other situations and the larger picture. It is a time for deeper thought and considering future application. The Now What? may include discussion of the following questions: How will our lives change because of this experience? How would you respond the next time you encounter this particular issue? What needs to happen to effectively address this issue? What will we do the rest of the week? What will we do when we get back to campus? What will we do in the upcoming year?

Sample Reflection Questions Regarding the Organization/Community What is the agency we worked with doing well? What could be done differently? What role does the organization play in the community? How responsive is the organization to community needs? How could the organization/agency better respond to community needs? How has your understanding of the community change as a result of this experience? What does it mean to provide effective service to a community? How did we serve this organization or community? How did our service affect the people/organization being served? How do you think the community/organization we visited/served perceive us? How do you think the people we visited/served felt about our presence/service? Regarding the Issue What did you learn about the issue the agency addresses or the population they serve? How do we contribute to this issue? How do we help address/solve it? How did the articles, guest speakers, etc. used in class reflect/support what you experienced/learned on the trip? What social, economic, political and educational systems are maintaining and perpetuating the problem/issue? How has your orientation to or opinion about this issue changed through this experience? General Reactions In what ways were your stereotypes or assumptions challenged? What expectations do/did you have regarding this experience? How did you feel about your involvement in this experience? Were your expectations met? What was frustrating for you during this experience? How did you handle this? What was uncomfortable for you during this experience? How did you handle this? What if anything surprised you? What made you think today/this week? What did you/we do today that made you feel that you/we made a difference? How were you stretched or challenged today/this week? What is the most memorable aspect of this experience for you? What emotions did you experience today/this week? What did you learn about yourself through this experience? What did you learn about our group and group dynamics? How do you think differently about the literature we read after this experience? How do you feel you contributed to this experience? To our team? What would you do different if you were to do this again? What are the most important things you will take with you from this experience? Looking Ahead How will you share this experience with others? In what ways have you changed or do you hope to change as a result of this experience? How does this experience connect to your long-term goals? What one thing will you do differently because of this experience? What has this experience better prepared you for? How can/will you continue your involvement with this issue? 16 What is next for you regarding service and learning? What can you do with the knowledge you gained to promote change? More Critical Reflection Questions What is the difference between generosity, charity, justice and social change? How has this experience challenged your assumptions and stereotypes? What are root causes of the social issue(s) you have explored? What are root causes of social inequality in general? What social, economic, political and educational systems are maintaining and perpetuating the problem/issue? Who is most impacted by the social issue(s) you have explored? Why are some groups impacted more than others? What factors have created these discrepancies? What public policies are involved and what are their implications? How can they be improved? How does the distribution of power and privilege in our society create/impact these social issues? How can service make a difference; and how can it perpetuate systems of inequality? What might transform the social issue(s) you have explored, and lead to sustainable change? What is your own vision for a more just society? How could we move toward that vision?