Valiant Haste

The COA Formation Program is an integrated formative routines designed for the Central Board and the Council of Representatives. This program shall encourage further personal discovery, foster community building, allow critical thinking development and fortify relationships among the Central Board and Council of Representatives.

Here is the overview of this program:

a.       Community Bonding and Building Activities (CBAs) [once a month for central board, and AT LEAST once a sem for the council of representatives]

b. Spiritual  Maturity Program (non-compulsory)

§  Prayer Sessions two times per semester for Central Board (non-compulsory)

§  An invitational Spiritual Maturity Session for the Council of Representatives

§  Annual Central Board Retreat

c. Social Awareness and Involvement Issues

a.       STANDS ON ISSUES. UNIFIED ACTION.

Do you have problems adjusting with surprise policy amendments and guidelines from different offices? Are concerns really relayed constructively and categorically?

The COA-ADMIN OFFICES Dialogue provides you another proactive avenue to air out your concerns, suggestions and commendation to offices. Offices, in turn, will have the opportunity to answer questions, clarify concerns and provide suggestions as well. This will be a sit down meeting with officials from organizations and various Ateneo offices and administrative units that affect or influence organizations. All concerned parties are given enough time to prepare for the dialogue (3-4 weeks). The program will follow a true dialogic approach and a multi-stakeholder analysis* to various issues and concern. The program is designed to bridge the differences between student organizations and offices. This sit down meeting will eventually shape and reshape future policies and guidelines of offices. This will be done before the start of the first semester.

The Bridging Leadership Framework:

The Bridging Leader whose values and principles compel him/her to make personal response to address inequities and divides recognizes that the complexity of the problem can only be solved by convening the stakeholders to the divide.

Through the process of dialogue and engagement that promotes trust and transforms the quality of their relationships with one another, the stakeholders arrive at a common vision and collective response to the situation.

The vision becomes the societal outcome aspired by everyone transcending the organizational outputs of each and every stakeholder. A social innovation that leads to the societal outcome is adopted and carried out through new institutional arrangements.

The bridging leader and the coalition of stakeholders ensure that these arrangement have clear and measurable goals with required capability and resources to demonstrate results.

Building External Networks and Linkages Program is dedicated to establishing constant communication with the “COAs” of other universities. The focus is not on the quantity of the orgs but on the quality of relationship with these organizations. This will have two phases:

1. First Phase: The Bridging Capital

a.       COA CB will conduct a survey on the various organizations and companies that COA orgs have partnered with in the past year. This will include companies, NGOs, Government offices, Student Organizations and Foundations.

b.       The survey will identify not just the names and contact information of the said organizations. This will also assess the degree or depth of the relationship.

c.        As a result, the survey will give us the big picture on which external units to focus on.

2. Second Phase: Constant Meeting and Referrals

a.       Representatives from the Executive Board shall establish constant communication with the organizations in the list. Furthermore, the Council shall enter into partnerships with other “COA” (e.g. SOCC – UST, CSO – DLSU, etc.) upon the ratification of the Council of Representatives.