Just a few weeks ago, the Discerning Leadership Team and Faculty wrapped up their residential formation programs for another year. This year, an italian-speaking cohort joined the English and Spanish groups bringing our alumni to just about 200. As a way to end the...
Discerning Leadership Team
Series on Trust
To create a Culture of Trust in our teams and organizations makes a huge difference in the well-being of the people involved, their collaboration, and their productivity. This capacity is particularly important in a time when change and adaptations are the new normal,...
The Discerning Leadership Program also speaks Italian
In addition to the formation courses in English and Spanish that has held for 3rd year, the Discerning Leadership Program has offered, for the first year, the formation in Italian in order to better respond to Vatican Officials and other Church Managers in Rome. Also,...
On the Road Together Issue #69
PRESENCING THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN OUR LEADERSHIP AND OUR MISSION Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Two by two, Jesus sent the 72 out ahead of him (Luke 10:1-23). With few provisions and, it would seem, little preparation, they were sent to cure the sick and announce the...
On the Road Together Issue #68
PRESENCING THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN OUR LEADERSHIP AND OUR MISSION Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Two by two, Jesus sent the 72 out ahead of him (Luke 10:1-23). With few provisions and, it would seem, little preparation, they were sent to cure the sick and announce the...
On the Road Together Issue #67
PRESENCING THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN OUR LEADERSHIP AND OUR MISSION Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Two by two, Jesus sent the 72 out ahead of him (Luke 10:1-23). With few provisions and, it would seem, little preparation, they were sent to cure the sick and announce the...
Course on Common Discernment in a Synodal Church by Boston College
Boston College offers a MOOC (massive open online course) on Common discernment and decision making in a Synodal Church. This Course includes some of the most relevant topics and speakers on this area, some of them are: Responsibility and Teamwork by Nathalie...
Alumni Gathering – Discerning Leadership
The Discerning Leadership (DL) Program hosted on Friday May 6th the first in-person gathering for its Alumni. This get-together was held at the Jesuit General Curia in Rome and was attended by 15 church leaders from religious congregations and Vatican dicasteries....
Synodality, Leadership, and Vulnerability – UISG Assembly
“A new style of leadership is crucial" Sr. Nathalie Becquart at the UISG Plenary Assembly 2022 During the week of May 2nd, the Union of International Superior Generals (UISG) of women religious, celebrated the plenary Assembly 2022 with more than 500 participants, and...
Series on Resilience – Leadership
Resilience, the ability to bounce back from adversity, is a very important quality to lead and thrive in our organizations, in particular in these VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) times that we are living, that have been magnified by the COVID pandemic....