1. Integral development concept

The conceptual fundamentals and instruments that facilitate the evaluation of the methodology are shown below.
INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT.

The HUMAN BEING continues a grow personal process thouglost life it is made up of in levels that no other being in our world manifests and requires.

The Bogotá YMCA has taken into account the following essential dimensions in order to realize the entire development process: Spiritual Growth, Personal Growth, Social Development and Leadership, Intellectual Development, Physical and leisure Development and Ecological Dimension.

This process can be assisted and accompanied from outside. In this way it is important to give a clear priority to the BEING, to produce, to share in contrast to or (not love) to HAVE, to consume, to own.

On the other hand, by dealing with social human beings, the self-formation process is not possible in an individual in an isolated way, but as a joint process and mutual interaction with everybody who at a certain level integrate the community and environment.

Teh growth dimensious as follows:

Spiritual Growth: This work is conceived, like a possibility to reflect and make people aware about the inner self power that each human being has, and which allows him to use his free will in a responsible way.

The themes developed in this Spiritual dimension are shaping up to rescue and strengthen the ability to discern and value the essence of a human being. A being who was created to God's image and therefore has got unlimited inner resources that each person must discover for giving purpose to his life. To fulfill himself and for contributing and helping to God's plan. Valuing and respecting the people and all the creation with an ecumenical vision.

Psychologycal Development: The work developed in this area wants to emphasize in the individual behavior, therefore involves every aspect related with the psyche, the conception of himself and the conception about the relationship with others.

Most of the feelings, emotions and behaviors expressed in the relationships with other people, have a strong connection with the relationship that the individual has with himself and it is expressed in his self-concept.

From what stated above, it may be deduced that the importance of such aspects as: the assertive communication, the sensitizing development, the affection and the identity consolidation of each individual, who admits that he is the only one, unrepeatable, and builds a sound vision of himself and participates actively in the creation of his world.

Social Development: Considering that the HUMAN BEINGs are developed in specific contexts, characteristics determine that his collective being, it is necessary to deal with the specific aspects related to his immediate context.It is imparative to adequatly prepare of the participants through the formative years in order to have a good social interaction.

Through the development of solidarity , democracy, team building, justice, right and principles of the
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but mainly the achievement of concrete actions for the improvement of his environment.

Intellectual Development: being aware of the cognitive process the ability to comprehend and build the reality, it is seen not only as the exchange of information and knowledge about himself and his surroundings, but even more determining and important, producing that knowledge and increasing the levels of awareness.

The HUMAN BEING learns at the same time that he participates in discovery and exploration. The knowledge is meaningful when he shows the capacity to think by himself and discover his own answers about the important events of life.

For these previous reasons, the suggested exercises in this handbook are focused to develop the ability to discern, produce, deal, confront, and explain abilities and looking for solutions in order to solve the challenges perceived as problems.

Ecological Dimension: The vital places where people stay, have a fundamental importance for their development. For this reason the emphasis of the work is focused in sensitizing people about the importance of protecting and keeping in good conditions their immediate environment.

Physical and leisure Development: a good health is generally a result of good hygiene, nutrition, exercise, among others. The process in this dimension aims to offer participants the opportunity to improve their health condition and well being to guarantee a sound and productive life.

The contents included in each one of the guidebooks, have been prepared for dealing with the different dimensions the question are meant to be vital, evocative, and full of possibilities cohen applied.

The objective is not obtaining content, information, knowledge (HAVE), but producing activities, self-formation, self knowledge (BEING). More than "teaching" in order to know the answers to certain problems, it is meant to provide an education that can help them to solve their problems with a great possibility of growth in a creative, intelligent critical and human way.

By doing this, the individual SELF-AWARENESS merges as a main character, who can face problems, transcending from the kingdom of need to the kingdom, of freedom changing with an operative and logical capacity (do and know to do). understand, learn, organize know priorities over all being critical and a transformer.

2. Objectives

Spiritual Growth

1. Identify participants' expectations about the world they would like to live in
2. Identify the differences about the ideal and real world
3. Specify the causes that prevent participants' world from being what they really long for
4. Identify thevolves people or institutions, responsible for not having the ideal world and the reasons why they have behaved so
5. Define or realize the most important values by which each one believes the ideal world should be built by
6. Define the appropriate role for each human being in the building of the world
7. Identify the resources and potentialy of each person has to better help him face life
8. Know the differences between; body, mind and spirit
9. Specify the different perceptions there are. Regarding the self-identity of the inner self
10. Achieve self-acceptance and self-assessment
11. Value every expression of life
12. Identify and develop the Christian values with emphasis in love, forgiveness and honesty
13. Discern between the good and evil, knowing and respecting God's laws
14. Reach out to peace and harmony
15. Being able to be self-determined
16. Dedicate time to God and count on his support

Psychological dimension

1. Personal Identity.

1.1 Ability of participants to admit and compare the paradigms that limit their personal development.

2. Sensitize.

Providing spaces of meditation and expression of feelings

3. Self- evaluation.

Offering spaces that facilitate personal reflection and self-evaluation as starting point in order to achieve positive changes.

4. Self-determination.

Create spaces that facilitate criteria formation for taking the right decisions so that can become self-determined beings.

Be aware of the importance of decision making and developing their abilities for the process

5. Communication.

Provide elements that encourage participants to develop a clear and assertive communication skills.

6. Co-existence.

Identify the importance of the rules as a basic factor for the social co-existence.

7. Sexuality.

Promote the reflection around the sexuality, considering it a gift.

7.1. Sexuality. promote the understanding and responsibility in the handling of sexuality

7.2. Motherhood / Fatherhood. Analyzing the ideas and feelings associated to the fatherhood and the responsibility in this situation.

7.3. Sexual Violence. Identify the conditions that promote the sexual abuse.

Social and leadership development

1. Leadership.

Educating people to believe in themselves, show their great leadership potential and prepare them in order to take a central role in the social change process.

2. Compromise.

Sensitizing the participants about the serious problems that affect the social and human development of people, groups and communities.

3. Participation.

Providing each person the opportunity to participate in the search and to define ways or solutions in order to have a better environment.

4. Human rights.

Promoting the reflection and education around the human rights focused in the values, justice, equity, respect to life and the solidarity that give the hope to have a fair and egalitarian society.

5. Conciliation.

Developing skills for having a harmonic interaction with the immediate context.

6. Working with groups.

Develop skills in order to coordinate and achievement of group process with the YMCA methodology.

7. Planning and designing projects

Develop skills for the designing and implementation of projects or micro-projects that involve organization and self-management processes.

Intellectual Development

1. knowing
Developing the basic skills in order to access to a clear observation and perception.

2.Logical Mind Development
formulating and promoting creativity and logical thinking

2.Conceptualizing
Developing abilities to discern, discuss and analyzing to facilitate the conceptualizing process

4. Transforming
Formating the ability to express a constructive and propositive critical, starting from the analysis, interpretation and broad vision of the reality.

5. Global Vision
Promoting the necessary skills to project and plan with a global vision.

6. Academic Performance

Provide elements aimed to have a better academic performance that complement the intellectual development.

Ecological dimension

1. Ecological Awareness

Developing an ecological awareness based on respect and the adequate use of natural resources.

2. Micro-project Development

Stimulating the responsibility in the care and protection of the natural resources and commit the participant to make specific actions, regarding this issue.

3. Communication

Establishing ways to communicate and publicize that allow the expansion of education and sensitizing processes about ecological issues in other areas.

Physical and leisure development

1. Health

Reflect about the importance of health care in order to have a good physical and mental development.

2. Environment

Help participants identify the environmental aspects which have a meaningful influence in their development.
Carry out specific actions oriented to improve the places where people are (house, institutions, school, programs).

3.leisure

Help participants develope their ability to enjoy, have a good time and use their free time in a creative way

4. Esthetic Artistic

Stimulate creative spontaneity, the imagination, the ability to perceive and express through the senses.

5. Psychomotor Development

Promoting the execution of activities and exercises that contribute to the development of physical, motor and psychomotor skills.

6. Sound life project

Making it possible for participants to commit to themselves so that they can have a healthy life.

3. Development Pyramid

According to the approaches regarding the concept of the Integral Development , the Model "Development Pyramid" integrates the different dimensions in essential areas such as:

• Psychological and Spiritual
• Intellectual
• Social and ecological
• Physical, leisure and sthethic

In each area, a process is developed merging from the inside of each person and his environment, taking them to optimum levels of development in each of the dimensions that form his being.

The instruments that measure the impact of these processes within the individual are shown below. Each instrument has got a series of indicators that must be measured at the beginning and ending to see the advancement of each of the persons involved in the integral formation processes.