COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

SYLLABUS IN VALUES EDUCATION 6

Course Code: Values Education 6
Course Title: Psycho-Spiritual Development
Course Description: Exposes the students to psycho-spiritual experiences for facilitating the, mind-body integration, transpersonal exercises, spiritual recollection, union and
evocation-oriented activities. The course brings together insights and principles on psycho-spiritual growth developed across various religious and cultural orientations.
General Objectives:
1. To recognize and understand the essence and nature of psycho-spiritual experiences in relation to values development.
2. To show willingness and openness in sharing reflections with and relating to the class ones personal experiences in the teacher guided psycho-spiritual designed activities.
3. To demonstrate reflective and analytical skills in answering the guided reflection materials.
Time

Objectives

Content

Reference Materials

Procedure Suggested
Activity

Values

Evaluation

Beltran, B. (1984).
Journey into solitude: a
manual for retreats and
recollections. Arnoldus
Press, Inc. Manila
pp 80 - 85

Activity:
1. Bible Reading: John
1:35 - 42
Analysis/Abstraction:
1. Guided Reflection
2. The Deeper Meaning
of Retreat
Application:
1. Prayer Activity.
2. Exchange of Peace
(May you find what
youre looking for.)

Respect for the Self

Essay Writing

Respect for the

uniqueness of
others

Quiz

Part 1
1. To recognize and understand the
meaning of selected words and phrases in
John 1: 35 42.
2. To write an essay explaining the
essence and nature of a spiritual retreat as
an encounter and a journey.

A. The Essence and

Nature of a Spiritual
Retreat as an Encounter
and a Journey

Handouts on Youth
Encounter.

1. To identify and explain the levels of

communication.
2. To identify and explain the level of

B. Communication
1. Levels of
Communication
a. Level 5: Clique

Handouts on Youth
Encounter.

Activity:
1. Song Analysis: When
You Say Nothing At All

Participation in the

speaking and listening.

3. To explain the following illustrations:
a. Cycle of Life
b. Speaking-Listening Cycle
c. Growth and Defense Cycle
4. To express and demonstrate
appreciation of the encounter level of
communication by actively participating
in the group sharing.

Conversation
b. Level 4: Reporting of
Facts About People
c. Level 3: Ideas,
Judgments, Opinions
d. Level 2: Gut
e. Level 1: Peak
2. The Encounter Level
a. Cycle of Life
(Illustration)
3. Levels of Speaking
and Listening
a. Level of Words
b. Level of Meaning
c. Level of Person
* Speaking-Listening
Cycle (Illustration)
4. The Spirit and
Atmosphere of an
Encounter

1. To identify and explain the three stages

of the growth process.
2. To show appreciation and
understanding for freedom and happiness
by explaining how these affect being your
self, being with others and to be for
others.
3. To identify the blocks to happiness.

C. Personhood
1. Freedom and the Need
to be Your Self
a. Happiness is in being
yourself.
b. Portrait of a Freeman
2. Loving Relationships
and the Need to be with

(from the movie Notting

Hill)
Analysis:
1. Guided Reflections
Abstraction:
1. Cycle of Life
(Illustration)
2. Speaking-Listening
Cycle (Illustration)
3. The Growth and
Defense Cycle
(Illustration)
Application:
1. Interiorizing Activities
a. Photolanguage
b. Group Sharing
c. Review of the Growth
and Defense Cycle
d. Reflective Reading:
Please Listen to what I
am not Saying.
e. Exchange of Peace: ( I
will listen to you.)

Beltran, B. (1984).
Journey into solitude: a
manual for retreats and
recollections. Arnoldus
Press, Inc. Manila
pp 86 - 93

Activity:
1. Recalling and Sharing
of Happy Moments
Analysis:
1. Happiness is Freedom
2. Happiness is loving
relationship and
solidarity
3. Happiness in Service

Group Sharing

Thankfulness for
Gods Gifts

Quiz
Participation in the
Group Sharing

4. To show appreciation of the truth that

persons are gifts by actively participating
in the guided reflections and group
sharing.

Others
a. Man is fellowman
3. Service/ Responsibility
and the Need to be for
Others
a. The Need to Give
i. Three Stages in the
Growth Process
Stage 1: TakingTaking Form (Childhood)
Stage 2: Taking
Giving Form
(Adulthood)
Stage 3: Giving
Giving Form
(Parenthood)
b. Man Juan Gives a Gift
4. Blocks to Happiness
a. Slavery in its Various
Forms
b. Self-centeredness and
ghettoism
c. Escapism
5. Summary
a. Happiness is in Person
in community
b. Personhood in
community is Success
c. Personhood in
community is Holiness

Handouts on Youth
Encounter.

and Responsibility
Abstraction:
1. Freedom and the Need
to be Your Self
2. Loving Relationships
and the Need to be with
Others
3. Service/ Responsibility
and the Need to be for
Others
4. Blocks to Happiness
5. Summary
Application
1. Reflection
Questionaire and Group
Sharing
2. Reflective Reading:
Persons are Gifts
2. Song: Persons are
Gifts
3. Exchange of Peace
(Exchange of Gifts)

Preliminary Examination
Part 2
1. To recognize and explain the essence
and nature of affirmation.
2. To manifest appreciation for ones
Human and Christian Dignity by making a
reflection paper on My Simon Self, My
Peter Self

A. Affirmation
1. The Power of
Affirmation
a. The Meaning of
Affirmation
b. The Secret and Power
of Affirmation
c. The Language of
Affirmation
2. Affirmation in Action
a. Zachaeus: Portrait of
an Unaffirmed Person
b. Jesus: Portrait of an
Affirming Person
(Qualities of Affirming
Relationships)
c. The Fruit of
Affirmation

1. To recognize the essence and nature of

rejection as opposed to affirmation.
2. To manifest appreciation for ones
Human and Christian Dignity by making a
written reflection paper on My Affirming
and Affirmed, Rejecting and Rejected
People.

B. Rejection
1. The Cycle of Rejection
a. Genesis and
Development
b. The Cycle of work
c. Symptoms of the Cycle
2. The Chain of Rejection
a. From Cycle to Chain
b. Mans History: The

Handouts on Youth
Encounter.

Handouts on Youth
Encounter.

Activity:
1. Bible Reading:
John 1:40 42
Analysis:
1. Guided Reflection
2. Jesus Affirms Simon
Abstraction:
1. The Power of
Affirmation
2. Affirmation in Action
Application:
1. Guided Reflection
2. Paper Work: My
Simon Self, My Peter
Self

Activity:
Film Viewing: Pay it
Forward
Analysis:
1. Guided Reflection
Abstraction:
1. The Cycle of Rejection
2.The Chain of Rejection
3. From Rejection to
Affirmation

Affirmation

Essay: My Simon
Self, My Peter Self
Participation in the
Group Sharing

Reverence for God

Essay: My Affirming
and Affirmed,
Rejecting and
Rejected People
Participation in the
Group Sharing

Chain of Work
3. From Rejection to
Affirmation God
Intervenes
a. Redemption: Breaking
the Cycle
i. The Affirming God
ii. Original Sin
iii. Christ: Redeeming
Affirmer
b. The Church
i. Gods Gift: New
Relationship
ii. The Church:
Network of Affirmation
iii. The Church:
Sacrament of Affirmation
3. The Christian Affirmed
and Called to Affirm

Application:
1. Guided Reflection
2. Written Reflection

Midterm Examination
Part 3
1. To recognize and understand prayer as
opening to God pagbubukas loob sa
kagandahang loob ng Diyos.

A. Prayer
1. Introduction to Prayer
a. What is Prayer

Greene, T.H. (19880. St.

Pauls Press. Manila.

Activity:
1. Meditation
Analysis:

The Sufficiency of
God

Quiz
Participation in the
Experiments on

2. To recognize and understand

discernment as an art of recognizing the
will of God.
3. To define the elements, types and
techniques of prayer.
4. To recognize and understand the ways
of Jesus in praying.
5. To appreciate and understand the truth
that God alone is enough by participating
actively in the experiments on prayer.

1. To examine the essence and nature of

vocation, metanoia and commitment.
2. To express ones commitment to Christ
through an active participation in a
paraliturgical celebration of commitment.

b. What is Discernment
c. The Four Ps of Prayer
i. Place
ii Posture
iii Presence
iv Passage
d. Types of Prayer
e. To Pray as Jesus Did
f. God Alone is
Enough
f. Experiments in Prayer

B. Commitment
1. The Call of Christ
(vocation)
2. Conversion
(metanoia)
3. Commitment

Beltran, B. (1984).
Journey into solitude: a
manual for retreats and
recollections. Arnoldus
Press, Inc. Manila
pp 187 - 222
Handouts on Youth
Encounter.

Beltran, B. (1984).
Journey into solitude: a
manual for retreats and
recollections. Arnoldus
Press, Inc. Manila
pp 30 - 55

1. The essence and nature

of prayer.
Abstraction:
1. What is Prayer
2. What is Discernment
3. The Four Ps of Prayer
4. Types of Prayer
5. To Pray as Jesus Did
6. God Alone is
Enough
Application:
1.Experiments in Prayer
a. The Still Center
b. The Jesus Prayer
c. Meditation on the
Hands
Activity:
1. Film Viewing: The
Passion of the Christ
(Mel Gibson, 2004)
2. Reflective Reading:
One Solitary Life
Analysis:
1. Guided Reflection
Abstraction:
1. The Call of Christ
a. The essence and nature
of the call/ vocation
b. Models: Responding to
the Call of God
c. The Universal Call to
Holiness (Full Human
Living)

Prayer

Change of Heart

Dramatization of
Stories of Conversion
Active participation
in a paraliturgical
celebration of
commitment

d. The Personal Call

2. What is Discernment
a. The essence and nature
of conversion
b. Stories of
Conversion
3. Commitment
a. The meaning of
commitment
b. The problem of
commitment
c. The challenge of
commitment.
Application:
1. Celebration of
Commitment
Final Examination

Prepared by:
RODEL S. AGUAS, MA
Associate Professor, Values Education
Selected Bibliography:
Greene, T.H. (1979). When the well runs dry: Prayer Beyond beginnings. St. Paul Publication. Manila.
Hampsch, J.H. (1979). The key to inner peace. St. Paul Paunlications. Makati.
Warren, R. (2002) The purpose driven life:What on earth am I here for?Purpose Driven Life Ministries, Philippines. Quezon City.
Wilkins, R.L. (1977). The Jesus book. Brown Company. USA.