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The group makeup for all Formation groups is 1 trainer and 6 – 12 participants Advanced Theological Reflection
Purpose: To
work with other mentors to integrate more deeply the function of theological reflection in the ongoing life of a seminar group.
To explore the implications of the four-source model of learning, experiment with different methods of theological reflection,
and find ways to “take home” the learnings to particular seminar situations.
As a result of this formation
event, you may expect to:
• better understand the four-source model of theological reflection
• skillfully
use several theological reflection methods
• develop a more confident and less defensive attitude toward groups
or members who resist reflection
• articulate the purpose of reflection in the EFM program.
Design
Skills
Purpose: To learn to design seminar sessions that meet a specific need in the mentor’s particular
seminar group, including guidelines for planning, administering, and evaluating designs.
As a result of this formation
event, you may expect to:
• understand the steps involved in planning a seminar session
• use the actual
situation of your seminar group as the basis for planning what will happen next
• become more confident in your
own creativity and flexibility
• articulate your responsibility for the learning of your seminar group.
Equipping for Ministry
Purpose: To understand lay ministry as part of the total mission and ministry
of the church. To develop skills for equipping seminar members to exercise their ministries as the baptized people of God.
As a result of this formation event, you may expect to:
• to understand the ministry of the laity in relation
to the ministry of the whole church
• to articulate the experience and understanding of ministering and being ministered
to in the context of the church’s mission and ministry.
• guide EFM students to use the resources of the program
– readings, parallel guides, common lessons, discussion, reflection, and worship – to develop their own understanding
and practice of ministry
• encourage and equip students to discover and respond to God’s call in every aspect
of their lives.
Experiential Learning
Purpose: To increase the mentor’s ability to
help seminar group members learn from their own experience and thereby take responsibility for their life together. This is
achieved by learning basic theories of experiential education which will be tested and developed during our work together.
As a result of this formation event, you may expect to:
• understand the DO – LOOK – THINK –
CHANGE cycle of learning
• enable your EFM seminar group to take responsibility for its own “life” by
learning from its own experience
• discover the limits of your responsibility as mentor to provide the answers needed
by your seminar members
• count on seminar group members to encourage and support one another in their education
for ministry
Group Skills and Human Interaction
Purpose: To refine our group skills through
building community. To understand group dynamics as they relate to EFM groups. To become aware of group leadership skills
and styles of human interaction. To gain confidence in using theories and learnings in our own situations.
As a
result of this formation event, you may expect to:
• understand theories of groups life and development
•
understand your own and others’ styles of human interaction
• apply group theory to foster community within
your EFM seminar
• be comfortable with your own leadership style and flexible enough to use other styles when expedient
• describe your role as a mentor in realtionship to theories of group life and development
Living
with Conflict
Purpose: To enhance the mentor’s ability to be a point of God’s loving presence in
the midst of conflict. This will be done by increasing the ways we can respond to the strong differences between people and
by creating a community of support in which we can examine conflict in our lives.
As a result of this formation
event, you may expect to:
• understand various sources of conflict - intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup
• identify ways in which people respond to conflict – denial, confrontation, capitulation, diffusion, compromise
• help seminar members find workable resolutions to conflict
• increase your ability to respond in the midst
of conflict by reducing your own anxiety in conflict situations
• value conflict as a source of learning and an
opportunity for deeper community within your group
Myers-Briggs
Purpose: To explore and recognize,
through use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) categories and inventory, the varied talents and perspectives of different
personality types and their relationship to group life and spiritual growth. Please note that this formation event does not
certify the mentor to administer the MBTI instrument.
As a result of this formation event, you may expect to:
• explore the MBTI style of information gathering, decision making, and communication
• identify and experience
ways in which the MBTI helps you increase your understanding of self and group dynamics
• be equipped to assess
your seminar group’s strengths and weaknesses in MBTI terms
• explore the spiritual growth aspects of the
MBTI for you and your seminar group
Power and Authority
Purpose: To equip mentors to identify
and explore the dynamics of power and authority in the life of the group. To identify and explore their own sense and sources
of power and authority as mentors. To identify and explore “The Source” of all power and authority for themselves
and the group. To assist EFM seminar members in identifying and exploring issues of power and authority in their ministries
in the world.
As a result of this formation event, you may expect to:
• deepen your understanding of
power and authority and source of power and authority in your own life and the life of an EFM seminar group
• explore
the issues of power and authority in your life and the sources of that power and authority
• develop skills and
resources for use in an EFM seminar group in order to assist member to identify and explore ways to exercise their own power
and authority in their ministries in the church and in the world.
Spirituality of Mentoring
Purpose:
To experience and explore our own spirituality and draw implications for “mentoring” by having a time of refreshment
and renewal. This is achieved through deepening our relationship with God and exploring resources for our spirituality.
As a result of this formation event, you may expect to:
• acquire resources to nurture the spiritual life
of your group members
• use a variety of skills – silence, art work, forms of meditation – to open yourself
and others to God’s presence
• deepen your aware of God’s presence in your own life
• understand
your task as a mentor in the context of your relationship with God
Transitions in the Midst of a Changing
World
Purpose: In order to live creatively in the midst of our changing and diverse world, we will utilize the
core EFM resources so that mentors may be equipped to identify, explore, plan and implement actions as we move through transitions
to new life in the midst of change.
As a result of this formation event, you may expect to:
• Provide
opportunities for mentors to build awareness of change and transition in their lives.
• To use core EFM resources
of theological reflection, stories and worship as the foundation of engaging change.
• Introduce transition theory.
Worship
Purpose: To explore the interweaving of personal devotion and corporate liturgy in worship
in order to equip mentors to develop their seminar groups as worshipping communities.
As a result of this formation
event, you may expect to:
• Distinguish/articulate the relationship between personal devotion and corporate liturgy
• Acquire the “know-how” to design worship with seminar groups
• Use more fully the resources
available through EFM materials (i.e. TR, CLSM and texts) for study and worship
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