trainers’ session november 7, 2010 belleville, illinois
TRANSCRIPT
Trainers’ Session November 7, 2010
Belleville, Illinois
What is your “take away” from this meeting?
• Go ahead and do the things I’ve been hearing about.
• Educate others on systemic change; share what the VF is doing world-wide
• Provide a catalyst for the VF to think creatively about what kinds of projects could be designed for local areas
• Design a training that invites us to think about our present service models and how they might move more towards systemic change.
• I don’t feel like a lone wolf anymore; communication has given me a new heart.
• There is a lot of wisdom; theological basis for what we do; gather the wisdom and begin to train each other; share the gifts of the VF
• Have already taken a step towards collaboration in my own area; expanding my contact group
• Learn from each other; share programs and evaluate potential for transformation
• Start personally
• Intend to work on three levels: get SVDP represented at UN
• Plenary session at national SVdP meeting on systemic change
• Work to develop a common understanding of poverty and the root causes; regional commitment
• Move beyond just VF and work with other groups who are already engaged in systemic change
• Challenge our own congregations• Who is going to do it? Need to be creative and
enthusiastic about passing on what we have learned to the next generation; need for systemic vocational program
• Where are those living in poverty involved in this process of systemic change
• How do you mobilize systemic change thinking?
• Hope to go back and help my own congregation to think more systemically.
• Hope to effect change in thinking on the boards of directors on which we sit
• Need to start with ourselves; our own branches of the family
• Gather the trainers from the VMY, LOC, and Sisters and train as a team with all those groups; model collaboration
• Need to understand the groups with whom we wish to collaborate
• Look at the stewardship campaigns in our parishes; invite people to recognize their own time, talent and treasures to transform their own lives
• Leaders need to set up another time to meet with us for continual training
• Need for Sisters in local ministries to seek out other branches of the VF and to collaborate with others outside of the VF who are interested in systemic change
• Need to stay in contact with others from this meeting
• Why was I asked to come here? How do we utilize the groups of our communities so that we can co-create a plan of action in our region?
• “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to get far, go together.”
• Need to identify among ourselves what potential is available for collaboration at the local level.
• Need to work on intentionally incorporating systemic change
• Need to create regional trainings; need to distill these three days into three hours
• Would have liked to have spent more time on projects; discussing strategies, etc.
• Necessary for people to receive facilitation training or to serve as a planner behind the scenes
• Electronic training; training in technology
• Develop a systemic change blog
• Share resources as we discover them
• Would be great to be able to click on individual states and have branches of the family and contacts identified; list those who have already been trained
What on-going training do you need?
• Need for a network so we can learn from each other; how is each group engaging in training in their regional area?
• Need to continue to communicate with leaders, but also with each other.
What do you see as your next step?
• Gather my colleagues for a meal and have a conversation that might lead to a systemic change training at DePaul; prayer, reflection and planting of seeds on systemic change
• There already is a blog that those in this group can participate in; change.family.org on vinfam website
• How do we transform our parishes so that they become agents of systemic change?
• How are we going to change the SVdP conferences to enable a change in mentality? Need to help them understand how to change the projects they are already doing into systemic change.
• Need to get more comfortable with technology
• Look at who the community is to whom we are speaking and be sensitive to where they are.
• Need to look at what we are already doing and engage in the questions which might lead to transformation within existing ministries.
• What happened here is like the Transfiguration. You have to go back down from the mountain. When you have a change you want to implement you are usually on Step 4. The people you want to engage in change are usually on Step 1. There is a need to go down to Step 1 to meet them and lead them to the next Step.
• Need to do more work within myself; need for conversion to take place
• A retreat that might call on people from the different branches to come together around systemic change
• There is a need for a shared understanding of the causes of poverty
• Need to do a better job of engaging young people in understanding systemic change; also need to do a better job of helping them to see their relationship to other branches of the family.
• VMY need more time with the leaders of the VF so we can better learn how to collaborate with them
• Need for a different way of approaching collaboration with other VF members for those of us who live in rural areas
• Need to add to our family simply lay Vincentians.
• The way that we communicate with each other from the top down is always effective; need to allow people to choose to opt in
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• VF gatherings are essential to share our different works; need to have more at the regional level to share ideas
• I would like to have a way of helping other branches of the family come to an understanding of the connections we share