TEMPORARY PROFESSED PROGRAMME
We are inviting Men/Women religious who are preparing for permanent commitment in Religious Life.
Topics include:
- Addictions
- Anger, Conflict, Bereavement and Stress Management
- Commitment and Dedication
- Communication and Community Life
- Communication and cultural Differences in Community Life
- Congregation Story
- Consecrated Life and the Vows
- Directed Retreat
- Discernment in Religious Life
- Human Development/Sexuality
- Leadership
- Liturgy/Eucharist
- Living Religious Life in Africa
- Preparation for Advent/Lent
- Reclaiming the Inner Child
- Sacred Story
- Scripture
- Self-Awareness and Growth
- Spirituality and Prayer Forms
- Who is Jesus for you Today?
THE ART OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
We are inviting Men/Women Religious and Diocesan Priests to learn or to revise the basic skills of Spiritual Direction.
Topics include:
- Basic Counselling skills
- Basic Spiritual Direction Skills
- Boundaries in Spiritual Direction
- Communication and Community Life
- Counselling Skills
- Discernment in Religious life
- Directed Retreat
- Human Development
- Introduction to Spiritual Direction
- Practicum
- Prayer forms
- Spiritual Direction in African context
SABBATICAL RENEWAL
We are inviting Men/Women Religious and Diocesan Priests to look at mid-life and its issues with a view to renew themselves in their commitments to God and to their congregation/diocese.
Topics include:
- Aging Gracefully – Planning for the Future
- Anger, Grief, Bereavement
- Human Development and Holistic Living
- Issues in Mid-Life – Holistic Approach to dealing with crises
- Reclaiming the Inner Child
- Sacred Story
- Sexuality
- Spirituality and Prayer Forms
- Transitions in religious Life
- 3 Day Directed Retreat
FORMATION SKILLS FOR TODAY
We are inviting Men/Women Religious who currently minister in any phase of formation in their Congregations or Dioceses
Topics include:
- Formation for Mission
- Intercultural Community Living
- Manual Planning
- Prayer forms and spirituality
- Relationships, Anger and Conflict
- Report Writing & Evaluating Formatees
- Self-Care of the Formator
- Walking with Formatees
- What is Formation?
FORMATION OF FORMATORS
This programme is designed for those Men and Women Religious who currently serve as formators in their Congregations or who will be in formation ministry soon. It has a particular emphasis on self-knowledge, self-awareness, personal growth and transformation of the religious who are current formators or are moving into that ministry, to help shape the mindset of candidates in formation (novices, postulants, etc.) to conform to the mindset of Christ.During the 9 months, the participants will receive short courses to include:
Topics include:
- Accompaniment
- Addictions
- Assessing a Vocation
- Bereavement, Stress, Anger Management
- Blocks in Formation
- Celebration of cultural days, birth days, feast days, Congregation and national days
- Christology
- Closure Activities
- Commitment & Dedication
- Communication in Community Life
- Congregation Story
- Consecrated Life and the Vows
- Basic Counseling Skills
- Cultural Differences and Community Life
- Directed Retreat
- Discernment in Religious Life
- Ecclesiology
- Eucharist
- Formation Boundaries
- Human Development
- Journaling, Prayer and Spirituality
- Leadership
- Liturgy
- Living Religious Life in Africa
- Methodology
- Missiology
- Orientation
- Planning Formation Calendar
- Recollection
- Reclaiming the Inner Child
- Report writing
- Sacred Story
- Scripture (NT and OT)
The participants will experience 3 weeks of Formation Immersion at a formation site in Ghana. During this time, they are immersed in the day-to-day living within a formation setting. They interact with the on-site formator and the novices/postulants.
Included in the programme: Monthly days of recollection, Regular Spiritual Direction, Accompaniment by Staff and Directed Retreat. Appropriate liturgies will be celebrated to “en-spirit” the programme. Participants complete a project in which they plan a period for a formation programme. This includes Time Tables, Orientation Days, etc., done to sharpen their organizational skills and to help them as they move into their new ministries.
