Method: the basic principles

“In a period of history in which many structures and life styles are falling into pieces while we are constantly left with nothing but our own personal resources and intuitions, the need of a spiritual direction is becoming more evident. From the idealistic point of view, anybody would benefit from a spiritual guide. However, it would be wrong to believe that there is only one spiritual guide. It is important to start thinking about an entire community or ministry where people help each other, practicing spiritual disciplines, living in a way that makes us sensible to the constant presence of God in our life” (Henry Nouwen).

Creating relations based on the liberation, recreating the world

The fundamental principles that the Groups aspire are:

* welcoming people in transformation
* non-specialized experimentation
* lasting human relationships
* the spirit of enthusiasm

Above all we create a welcoming place for those people in upheaval in this extraordinary phase of crisis and regeneration.
Contemporary men and women often suffer this crisis in solitude, feeling guilty or ashamed. We welcome them and show the evolutional meaning of the crisis that they suffer from.

Moreover, our research is a real experimentation, an authentic research and therefore we try to transmit, in our Groups, that sense of liberty that every research should have.
We use, as we’ve shown, different schools of knowledge, but without any specialization or abstract concepts.
All knowledge is used with precision and care, but only in view of the transformation that it can give.

The groups however, can help people to experiment the small and big miracles of rebirth only through relationships that are regular and lasting.
We need to feed the mutual confidence, the affection and the joy of being together, communicating to each other our pains and our delight.

“To be a witness means to give your life for our friends, to become a “martyr” in the original sense of the word. To be a witness means to offer your experience of faith and to make your doubts, your hopes, your failures, your successes, your solitude and your wounds available as a context in which others can confront their own humanity and their own search for meaning” (Henry Nouwen).

Fundamentally, it is a positive spirit, even enthusiastic, the spirit with which we are called to live this unique phase of the history of our planet. We cannot be trans-figured without the trust and the passion for ‘newness’ which is however nothing more than the spirit of ‘man’ which is being born within us.

“Only passivity is dangerous. A Poet is he who breaks for us our habits. (…) and may he tell everyone the joy of living this special time. Because the moment is great and new, in which to know ourselves again”. (Saint-John Perse)