Maronite Church and Youth Identity in Australia

In occasion of World Youth Day (WYD) Sydney 2008 an International Maronite Youth Conference was sponsored by the Maronite Bishop of Australia. This event offered IACE (Institute for Advancing Community Engagement) the opportunity to collect data from: - the Maronite forum organised by and attended by the Patriarch, Bishops from various diocese across the Middle East and male and female youth from various Maronite Diocese across the world. - the survey to explore youth’s view on how the Maronite Church operates in a changing world and understand Maronite’s youth identity outside of Lebanon and in a changing world. Surveys were conducted at the beginning of the Forum and at the end of the 3 Day Forum. Group topics were recorded in notes and then groups reassembled at the end of each day. Brainstorming session was recorded on butchers paper Digital and print copies of the material are kept.

为纪念2008年悉尼世界青年日（World Youth Day, WYD），澳大利亚马龙派（Maronite）主教主办了一场国际马龙派青年会议。本次活动为社区参与促进协会（Institute for Advancing Community Engagement, IACE）提供了数据采集的契机，相关数据来源于两部分：
——由宗主教（Patriarch）发起并参与的马龙派论坛，参会人员包括中东各教区的主教，以及来自全球各地马龙派教区的男女青年；
——旨在探究青年对马龙派教会在变革世界中运营模式的看法，同时了解黎巴嫩境外马龙派青年在变革世界中身份认同的调研问卷。
调研分别在论坛开幕当日及为期3天的论坛结束时开展。小组讨论的主题以笔记形式记录，每日活动结束后会重新召集各小组进行复盘。头脑风暴环节的内容被记录于大张牛皮纸上，所有相关资料均留存有数字副本与印刷副本。