How to prepare the International Formation Encounter
* Guiding team of the encounter:
+ between five to seven persons,
+ with experience in formation seminars,
+ equal proportion of jesuits and lay persons,
+ multiplicators, capable of offering the Encounter in their own countries.
* Items needed during the Encounter
+ Name tags
+ Posters
+ Markers
+ Masking tape
+ Celebration (drinks, cookies, nuts...)
+ Meeting places for each workshop groups (one workshop group for every 7-8 participants)
+ Table for display of formation materials
- Books related to CLC
- Printed materials and on diskettes
- Materials in other languages for information and consultation
- Progressio, Jesuits and CLC...
* Themes that could be interesting for free presentation in the evenings (Optionals)
+ Formation of group Guides
+ CLC-High School, CLC-University
+ How to initiate a CLC, stages and transition periods,
+ Family life and CLC
+ How to be an Ecclesiastical Assistant? What do they do?
+ Religious and lay meeting in different groups (What are you doing in CLC? How is this experience changing the way you exercise your ministry?)
* Distribution of participants into workshop groups, choice of coordinators
+ between 7 to 8 participants on each group,
+ equal proportion of religious-lay persons on each workshop group,
+ the coordinators role is essential for the good outcome of the workshop and for the information of the guiding team on the Encounter's progress.
* Facilitator for each day (from the guiding team)
+ He/she presides over the coordinators' evaluation (in the evening).
+ At the beginning of the day he/she offers a summary of the preceding day.
* Introduction to each Instrument
+ Defining the topic
+ What is the outcome or the objectives of the workshop?
+ What are the questions suggested to them?
+ What method is suggested?
* Morning prayer and Eucharistic Celebration (by the facilitator of the previous day with the help of one country or region)
+ Taking into account the programme of the day and its theme,
+ There should be a gradual development of our "faith history"
+ Integrating prayer and work, a contemplative attitude and honest endeavour,
* Celebration, inspired on the events of the Encounter (avoiding bad taste).