Pre-Conference Leadership Institute (Symposium) for Educators Working in Enrichment, Formation and Training Programs

Our 2005 multicultural, interfaith symposium will explore the operating values underpinning education programs in our diverse learning community. Highlighting how programs have been shaped and challenged in different cultural and spiritual traditions, the focus will be the challenges of those who are exiled. How do we invite the poor, those of different cultures, the marginalized, and those who feel alienated or exiled to return home through our educational and enrichment ministries? How are we preparing spiritual directors to accompany the exiled? 

Facilitator Jack Mostyn, CFC, an educator for decades and former member of the Spiritual Directors International Coordinating Council, has ministered to religious communities around the world the past four years.  

An international panel of formation team members, educators, and program directors will discuss tending the holy on their home continents to help us look more deeply at the values that shape and nourish our programs. Small group exercises will deepen the experience and help synthesize our collective learning. We will consider how the exiled, poor, and marginalized in our own area of the world affect our formation and enrichment programs as well as shape our operative values. Come join us in a dialogical sacred space to expand the holy in our mentoring programs throughout the world.

The symposium will include presentations, prayer and reflection, in large and small group conversations.