Workshops

Workshop 3

Workshop #3 - Designing & Implementing a Parent & Family Faith Formation Programming - guides your parish team in creating one or more programs/activities for your first year plan. The Workshop (and the Guide and PowerPoint presentation)  provide the following processes and tools for you to use: 

• Designing Programs and Activities & Piloting Programming
• Faith Formation Formats for Programming 
• Digital Tools for Family Faith Formation 
• Curating Faith Formation Resources
• Designing Family Activities
• Designing Parent Programming
• Designing a Family Catechesis Learning Program
• Leader Development Process and Tools 
• Evaluation: Program Evaluation & Participant Evaluation Tools

Workshop 2

The goal of Workshop #2 is to generate and select programs, activities, strategies for addressing parent and family priorities by creating a faith formation plan using the four approaches proposed by the Project: 1) developing family life-stage activities (young children, grade school children, young adolescents, older adolescents); 2) developing activities that apply to all four life stages; 3) developing family-involving sacramental preparation for Baptism, First Eucharist, and Confirmation using a catechumenal formation model; and 4) developing a family catechesis model of learning.

Workshop 1

The goals of Workshop #1 are to 1) explore the vision and practices of family and parent faith formation in the first two decades of life; and 2) identify priority needs/concerns/interests for developing a parish plan for parent and family faith formation by analyzing the research on families from the CARA national study and your parish’s survey and analyzing the parish profile of faith formation in the first two decade of life.

Location-Specific Workshops:

Online Workshops

These online learning workshops include a guided process and document downloads for parishes who could not participate in the original workshops:

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