Tutorial Exercises CS115

Aim of Tutorial: To establish an understanding that God invites us into an experience of love not fear and some of the implications that may flow from this experience.

Links to Schools (provided by staff from your school):

Business – There is a dichotomy of healthy shame v’s toxic shame – examples from Business – eg WOW Sight and Sound receivership/Sam Savvas’ death; Harvard Business Review article – “Guilt ridden people make great leaders” (Flynn). There are some leaders who remain fearful and therefore employ scams, dodgy deals; Lies; Fraud; Embezzlement -Fake Tahitian prince Joel Morehu-Barlow & Qld Health, Greed (ABC learning centres). Personal transformation therefore has a material effect on the way business is done.

Social Science – Most of the ‘therapeutic’ value of interaction with people helping professions comes from relationships – these relationships with others are a shadow of the prime relationship – the one between us and God. As we accept the invitation to enter into a loving relationship with God, we are better placed to invite others into that space.

Education – One of the biggest drivers of guilt and shame in education is performance. Do I meet the expectations as a teacher? Does my class meet the expectations? Am I creating a culture in my classroom that says to the children that they are accepted on the basis of how well they do their work? From a Christian perspective, a teacher needs to be counter-culture that sees all their class for who they are and not what they do. From experience this requires a teacher to develop a real relationship with each child. Without this relationship based on their value as a person the performance drives everything.