What are we doing well
as a Catholic high school or middle school?
What best practices
can you recommend?
Building on our
positive core what changes can we discover, dream and design
for practicing the science and art of faith formation?
for practicing the science and art of faith formation?
To share answers and possibilities for these questions members of this group blog are exercising “appreciative inquiry”
(https://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/intro/whatisai.cfm for definition.)
By August 15 we will evaluate our summer blog experience and decide about continuing appreciative inquiry with the group blog and/or other means in our own school or a wider inquiry.
By August 15 we will evaluate our summer blog experience and decide about continuing appreciative inquiry with the group blog and/or other means in our own school or a wider inquiry.
Appreciative Inquiry assumes a school is a living system and
every system has untapped potential.
So, participants in this or a school’s ongoing Appreciative Inquiry can
include pastors, parents, administrators, teachers, students, alumni,
commission members and benefactors.
Various forms and degrees of Inquiry can also be shared with:
Various forms and degrees of Inquiry can also be shared with:
- Catholic schools in a wider diocesan or regional system.
- Practitioners of faith formation in the wider system of Catholic education, including directors, youth ministers, and catechists in parish programs; RCIA; adult formation; evangelization.
- Practitioners of faith formation in other religious traditions.
- Retreat and spirituality centers.
To be a contributor to this group blog email Leo at wisdom@wctc.net with a preferred email address that is linked to your Google account. If you
don’t have a free Google account, it is relatively easy to set one up. We welcome your participation!
