Rougemont
APPENDIX : Issues for group meetings
For the community coordinators :
C 1 Ongoing formation of sisters at the personal level.
Propositions made to the sisters. The follow-up on each one.
C 2 Work: its importance in each sister's personal growth.
C 3 Preparing sisters to assume responsibility.
C 4 Spiritual accompaniment. Frequency. The sisters who "need nothing".
For the formation directors :
F 1 The novice's involvement in discerning her own vocation.
F 2 Creativity at the novitiate.
F 3 Pedagogical means or methods to lighten the formator's workload.
F 4 The spiritual progress of the formation director : how to get help ?
For the other sisters :
0 1 The young sisters and their insertion into the community.
0 2 Work overload and prayer life.
0 3 A woman's lifetime commitment to monastic life:
thresholds to cross; spiritual life phases to live.
0 4 Never in charge ... happy just the same !
For the community coordinators :
C 1 How to sensitize the sisters to community growth ?
C 2 Spiritual animation of the community: the coordinator's talks.
C 3 Judicious time budgeting in the monastery.
C 4 The sisters' rest and relaxation.
For the formation directors :
F 1 Developing community spirit.
F 2 Formation of listening and dialoguing skills.
F 3 Young sisters' disappointments: what pedagogical approaches to adopt ?
F 4 One discernment criterion:
will the young aspirant be able to live what the community has to live ?
For the other sisters :
0 1 Adult obedience: dialoguing with the coordinator.
0 2 Fraternal correction: new forms ?
0 3 Work and freedom of spirit.
0 4 A balanced life for the sister bursar, the sister receptionist.
THE COMMUNITY COORDINATOR'S ROLE
AND THE FORMATION DIRECTOR'S ROLE
For the community coordinators :
C 1 The coordinator's role in preparing community elections.
C 2 Finding time for each sister...
C 3 A balanced life program for the coordinator.
C 4 Dealing with difficult cases: compassion ? Authority ? Treatment ?
For formation directors :
F 1 Follow-up of young aspirants before their admission.
F 2 Should goals be suggested to postulants and novices ?
F 3 Concrete problems related to programs
for the postulate, novitiate, and young professed sisters.
F 4 The novice-formator-coordinator triangle. How does it function ?
For the other sisters :
0 1 The community's observation of sisters in formation.
0 2 Community discernment prior to voting for admission.
0 3 Functioning of coordinator's council.
0 4 "Seizing control" of services.
For the community coordinators :
C 1 Cooperative experiences between monasteries.
C 2 How to make monasteries known ?
The image of contemplatives according to priests in guidance ministries.
In the media ?
C 3 Tradition and traditions.
C 4 The problems of an aging membership. Adequate preparation for old age ?
C 5 How to stimulate the community to hope ?
For formation directors :
F 1 A new woman - new candidates ? Repercussions on formation.
F 2 Experiences in the formation of formation directors.
F 3 For a dynamic presentation of vows; where to obtain this renewal ?
F 4 Investing in formation: community choices.
For the other sisters :
0 1 Praying for vocations: resigned or hopeful ?
0 2 Each sister's responsibility regarding the monastery's future.
0 3 Three generations side by side:
how do we go about facing the future together ?
0 4 To live !... and not just survive !
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