IMMERSION PROGRAM 2025
Immersion Program – 2025/6
THIS EVENING’S AGENDA
❖Welcome, Acknowledgement of Country and Prayer
❖Purpose of the Immersion Program?
❖Code of Conduct
❖Immersions – awareness of risks
❖Administrivia
PILGRIM’S PRAYER
God of earth and all peoples, we will leave our land to experience the poverty, the beauty, the risk, the riches of the unknown.
We ask that we be open to all that life has to offer –conversion, healing, unity, courage, compassion, joy.
Open our eyes to see every person and every place as holy. Open our hearts to seek you. Help us to make a difference wherever we are and whatever we do.
Why do we run an Immersion Program?
The Immersion Program aims to:
❖ Find God in all things and all things in God
❖ Further develop the staff and students’ personal relationship with God
The Immersion Program aims to:
❖ Enrich all participants’ knowledge and understanding of the Gospel call to justice and its reflection in the social teachings of the Catholic Church
❖ Develop an awareness of other Jesuit works and the charism of the Order
CODE OF CONDUCT
CODE OF CONDUCT
Students take responsibility for:
INTANGIBLES – NON-NEGOTIABLE
TANGIBLES - WELFARE OF THE GROUP
❖ Participation
❖ Be other-centred
❖ Be respectful and trustworthy
❖ Health
❖ Safety ❖ Punctuality ❖ Independence ❖ Reliability
PASSPORTS where applicable
❖ Must be valid for at least 6 months from the date of return to Australia
❖ Photocopy of information page required for flight booking
THINGS TO NOTE
❖ Issues of health, mental health and associated medications - including addictions
❖ We will ask some families for review – about 20%
❖ Immunisations – Family GP is crucial here
❖ Follow DFAT and College insurance advice on travel
❖ Travel Insurance – College provides this
THINGS TO NOTE
❖ Travel is from and to Sydney
❖ Price & Itinerary fluctuations
❖ Phones and communication
❖ Fundraising is an important element of the Immersion experience
❖ Our approach to risk is serious and practicalreconnaissance trip was mandatory for overseas return
DESTINATION
