 partnership extremely affordable but nonetheless we ask for whatever financial arrangement a diocese can take care of and people are asking for an accounting and they should okay so if they're paying $300 per institution $400 per institution or some other flat rate the financial office is going to say how many people are using it how effective how long are they engaged are we finding conversions taking place in our parishes are our school teachers actually embracing the Catholic mission okay I just want you to understand where I'm going with today and I'm going to ask this I want you to hold your questions please until the end because it's I'm think I'll probably answer quite a few but if you could just hold make notes so you don't forget your questions and then at the end I'm going to ask my colleague also Amy Picano who has been part of our web team and she is more of an expert on the technology side than I am but we have a few things we want to show you that most of you have never seen before and we're unveiling several things okay so I just want to emphasize over and over again we're trying to be as bilingual as possible I'm not there yet but I'm trying to present as much to you in both English and in Spanish so we have one goal our one goal is forming those who form others in the faith that means and I often have to explain this when I go into dioceses that means we are not replacing the catechesis that is taking place in pre-k through 12 okay what we are doing is we're forming y'all and we're forming those who form others in the faith I just want to make sure that's really clear too we have a new a new document that's going to be coming out very soon parts of it you might have seen in some material that we've given throughout the week this new document is going to focus our ministry in three areas the first one and all of these you are terms that you've seen before but I want to make sure you'd understand that we are having this focus first is accompaniment now for us we want to make sure that it's really clear our approach is not a sprint it's a marathon now there are multiple dioceses here whom I serve and when I have accompanied you we always listen because your pace just like in a marathon your pace is different than somebody else's pace okay so the pace in Los Angeles is different than it is in Victoria right the pace in Indianapolis is different than it is in Fort Worth the pace in Lansing no Columbus I'm sorry the pace in Columbus is quite different than it is in in but where what diocese Oh Stockton y'all are together right it's different than it is Oklahoma City I mean these the contrast I'm going to show you some contrasts up here between the pacing here and this is for us the accompaniment means we are conditioning ourselves to pace with you okay and that's so so important for us but this is not a quick fix and if you're looking for a quick fix we're not gonna be able to help okay our second ministry focus is mentorship and we use the word mentorship very much you'll see it all throughout all of our work but it really is forming disciples forming disciples of Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit for the church I like to use that word discipleship a lot it means the same thing as mentorship okay and then our third focus is the karygma and I realize many of you who are leaders know exactly what the karygma is but you know then as leaders many of the people who you are forming have no idea what the karygma is okay so that's what we're here to do is to help you make that again a very common phrase very common term okay I think it was beginning of the year let's say January we were doing strategic planning that is the what's called the so the catechetical Institute has two parts we have a workshop development team and we have an outreach team so I am part of the outreach team the outreach team which also includes our deputy director Dr. Bill Keimig myself our web team and Mary Brewer who is the one on the phone she when you call the CI she's the one who's there Gabby duo is also part of our web team Katrina Herlambong is especially in Asia and then the Holy Spirit sending us somebody else to do the northern part of the United States and Canada the reason I mention all this is we did strategic planning in February listening back to the field and we went through over and over and over again what we were hearing the question about what distinguishes us from everybody else who's providing formation allowed us to get to these five points the Franciscan difference is this we collaborate not compete with your current formation structures we want to make that so so very clear there is no competition for us in the church with anything that you're doing number two we empower you not unemployed you number three we provide a customizable long-term process of accompaniment we don't use cookie cutter approaches at all you don't have to fit into us we fit to you three four excuse me we are practical when we say practical we mean practice we are very oriented towards practices and then number five we are field oriented so we listen to the field we want to make the communications loop complete and we are constantly listening to the field and adjusting so franciscan at home comm is our learning management system but we are not an online formation we are disciple making we use online formation to support disciple making okay unfortunately sometimes it gets turned around the other way now the reason it's going to feel like that is because if you have accounts on franciscan at home comm you know how robust it is it's the biggest it's the largest it's the widest it's the deepest formation program in the world and we have spent a lot of time a lot of expertise a lot of money doing it but it never goes ahead of us it always serves us we believe that there are four characteristics specifically to our online learning system called franciscan at home comm one it's generously affordable we are committed to financial flexibility and we are committed to it's generously affordable we are committed to financial flexibility and we will work with your unique diocese and needs for all on board partnership for example although standard pricing is four hundred dollars per institution we adjust for financial hardship missionary circumstances perish clustering geographical challenges etc so that your whole diocese may receive the gift the gift of forming others to encounter christ personally yes sometimes it is a financial gift sometimes you come to us with a need you say mark we need a missionary rate we can't swing it right now our diocese is in bankruptcy we have our excuse me we're still coming out of covet things are still limited whatever the circumstances are we will work with you and we make it work for you but the gift i'm talking about here is not just the financial gift we're talking about the gift of everyone who comes in the ministry it might be that they haven't articulated it but everyone who's in ministry answered a call and the call was come follow me spend time with me and so the gift of the ci is we're giving you the time to be intimate with the lord that's what our gift is because we don't want it to be a way in which you are being used we actually want it to help you use what's there so you can come to the lord better number two it's completely accessible all of your teachers leaders ministry team leaders may receive unlimited access to our online formation workshops at no additional cost and from the comfort of their own homes and offices if they wish everybody everybody gets it we never charge per person when a diocese partners with us okay sometimes the diocese doesn't partner anybody can get a personal subscription at franciscan at home anywhere in the world where they have internet access but for partner dioceses especially we want to make it available to everybody number three we are deeply diverse our true video workshops are presented by seasoned presenters from different walks of life countries languages ministry areas their rich and unique perspectives help you both to train effectively and to nurture spiritually all involved in passing on the catholic faith when we say true video workshops i never ever excuse me i never use the phrase watch a workshop that's passive we participate in a workshop it is true all of our workshops have video segments but i don't even watch a video segment i listen to a video segment active listening because actually if you have participated in any of our workshops you know that we ask you to print off the sheet the worksheet before it because sometimes there are fill in the blanks as you're going through the workshop right or those of you who know dr bergsma you're doing diagrams that you're doing diagrams as you do as workshops right okay all right and then number four highly flexible this formation can be adopted or adapted excuse me to a ministry certification process ongoing formation or continuing education volunteer formation and group studies i really want you to know i'm going to blow i would like you to blow apart everything that you think about concerning certification and the way i want you to blow it apart is not to upend and make people anxious in your diocese what i want you to think about is the gift again of acknowledgement of a person's time energy uh themselves in their formation so that certification is not necessarily a hoop to jump through okay this is a flexibility room i know i understand okay but we're not jumping through hoops in this room what we're doing is we're acknowledging that it is a great gift for you to take time with the lord and to form yourself the way we're going to do that is we're going to make sure you get a certificate okay do you understand i'm trying to get a little bit broader about the notion of certification and other forms of recognition we're going to talk about that a little bit later on okay i am presuming right now there are some in this room who are veterans at using franciscan at home and there are some in this room who are complete rookies okay so i'm going to pitch to the rookie but come along with me and i'm gonna the veterans in here you're going to see some things that you've never seen before okay so for the rookie everybody goes to franciscanathome.com don't do it right now just listen to me and while you're there i especially want to introduce you to my friend Franklin Allen Quinton Franklin Allen Quinton is an archdiocese of Toronto very first formation event or mentor training that we did he asked all kinds of questions he was always raising his hand okay so we created a button just for him it's called FAQ okay i think he's doing just fine these days i don't know okay but so some people call it frequently asked questions anyhow so the FAQ button is really really important for you to teach anybody else and we are working to make that a really accessible button we're working on making it better and if you want to do it in Spanish we also have it all available in Spanish well not all available sorry but we're working towards getting the entire system completely bilingual we are working really hard to get to that point okay right now our FAQs are preguntas y recuestas unfortunately are still in English right but we're working to get it in Spanish oh okay all right so we're in process but we're getting we're getting really close okay i want to show some general statistics for y'all maybe you receive this in a handout maybe not i'm going to share it with you right now because we're pretty excited about what's going on as of uh let's see beginning of this month beginning of July we had 37,000 plus disciples on franciscanethome.com i also like to use the word learners learners is actually the term in our system that we use most frequently but i like to use the word disciples and you notice we serve those engaged in the widest variety of ministries with trained local mentors local local mentors when i started four years ago i came from the perspective of what's called the cult of distant experts i've got a phd i know everything and you are going to pay me really really well so that i can teach you and i run away here with your money but you never change right how many times do we create huge events sometimes conversion takes place but oftentimes they there's no follow-up right we we get frustrated because we have 50,000 people come to this big wonderful conference center in our town for this amazing eucharistic congress i'm anticipating something here now okay and they don't show up at mass the following week because what's happened is they were not accompanied they attended a big event and since it took place in the convention center where they're also doing the basketball games and the hockey games they come with the attitude of i'm going to a sports event this is just catholic sports okay and when they go to a catholic sports event they get super excited enthusiasm runs real high we love the enthusiasm just like pentecost okay we got to have the enthusiasm but because there's no accompaniment structure no mentoring structure locally they'll show up and then after that they go off off the radar we all know what happens in rcaa right and the reason it doesn't happen in rcaa is because we don't expect the team to continue to mentor afterwards or the confirmation sponsor is it we have it in their mind that you're only necessary for the receiving of the sacrament of confirmation and then they don't know what they're supposed to do afterwards well what they're supposed to do afterwards is to be the lifelong mentor to be the lifelong accompanist of the person who they just brought to christ okay all right so that's what for us that's why local mentors were not a cult of distant experts okay the most diverse offering of customizable ministry tracks that are composed of true video workshops free semi monthly webinars so as long as you have an account you're going to get an email from us inviting you to the webinars they have been amazing any of you have participated in them they're live a workshop is not live just to make sure that's clear workshop is recorded we spend for one hour of video we spend 100 hours in post production to make it beautiful attractive engaging webinars are live we don't do any makeup you know bill makes mistakes i make mistakes somebody else okay all right and and an international guild to overcome isolation and discouragement if you don't know about the guild we really want you to know about the guild because how many of us in ministry have ever felt alone anybody here okay all right so go ahead right now just give yourself a big hug we're all here together okay we are in this together many of you who've come to the lunches that we've offered for diocesan officials uh Tuesday Wednesday and then today you're going to come out of that lunch and one of the most important things that will happen to you'll say oh somebody's got the same problems i do and you've never heard that before you thought you were in this all by yourself right we want to avoid that and that's what the guild helps to do okay we have 200 plus true video workshops we're trying to put out at least one new one every month we offer online unparalleled ministry formation based on a workshops based on the catholic adult learning model you might or might have never heard this before dr willy and i discussed this we've been kind of working on it for a while last year he gave approval for me to say this publicly so the catholic adult learning model is based on these five action verbs trusting not doubting tasking not testing praying not faking giving not getting growing not shrinking so we're going to talk about that in just a little bit i'm going to show you how it all fits together and a new workshop is added every month we have it says 115 plus we have 120 partnered dioceses today 120 partnered dioceses we've received letters from bishops of roman catholic diocese eparchs of eastern catholic jurisdictions throughout the world to request support for evangelization and catechesis according to the local ordinaries vision some local ordinaries are promulgating new pastoral letters on evangelization catechesis discipleship we are there to serve his vision and not him to serve us and then we have we're in over 35 countries that we can say out loud there are all kinds of other things that we serve that we don't want to mention out loud we're headquartered here at francesca university in stubenville ohio but we serve the people of god throughout the world and right now we offer workshops complete complete workshops and four languages english spanish latvin and slovakian but we are working on more languages you can go to franciscan at home dot com you'll see on the left hand side of your dashboard where it says start learning all of the names of these ministry tracks what you might not see unless you really go deep into it is in fact how they're composed so we compose them of courses of study and then within the courses of study are workshops and then within the workshops are segments and then in each segment is a video and a task okay and it's that hierarchy that is really helpful and by the way um i'm giving this slide presentation to you i have about three or four slide presentations if you would like to introduce better the ci in your own diocese you bring us in for free all you have to do is pay for our travel lodging food we will come and do any formation events for you for free but the reason i say that with the slide presentation is maybe you need to refresh things in the diocese and you can use some of the information i'm i don't want you to overwhelm anybody with all this stuff i have some other really short nice slides for somebody who doesn't know anything about franciscan and you can share that with them i think i sent that to you if i didn't let me know okay or anybody else uh that i serve anybody yes oh yeah absolutely yes no no no that's i'm glad you asked i go to multiple parishes i yes i am uh if if i can fit it into my schedule i will a lot of times what will happen is i will try to arrange uh events in a diocese for the diocese and i will add on to that events in parishes okay i really like to do it that way all right so this gives you an idea right now right now as of today we have 16 ministry tracks presently available on franciscanathome.com the one track that's sequestered is the ongoing diaconal formation track we make that separate because it's actually a five year approach whereas all of these others don't have any years attached to them and we actually have a separate pricing for the ongoing diaconal formation track what we are working on very diligently and hoping to have come out really really soon is the marriage renewal ministry track and the educating in tri christ track those two are really top priorities for us at this point we're working on the antiqua ministerium but you know we're not going to come out with anything until there's official promulgation okay a special needs ministry track we're also working on diligently and then ultimately we want the culture of life diocesan officials priests the renewal and music ministry tracks as well okay so um the partnership a partnership if you're not partnered with us if you are partnered with us if you haven't heard all of these here's what i want to summarize right now so partnership means one unlimited learners unlimited disciples a diocese can allow an unlimited number of disciples from subscribing parishes in schools to become learners on franciscan at home dot com to a mentoring structure with free help from the ci outreach team a diocese can train and deploy local mentors train and deploy local mentors franciscan at home dot com provides structures of accountability for mentor disciple relationships we'll talk i'll show that to you in just a moment three a stronger community a diocese can use workshops in groups ministry teams school faculties to foster cohesion trust and shared vision for customizable formation a diocese may create and maintain a landing page on franciscan at home dot com with help from the ci outreach team a diocese may build custom ministry tracks from the ci library of 200 plus workshops and then regular feedback that is the new data i'm going to show you today a diocese may view real-time reports on franciscan at home dot com to track learner disciple engagement and to assess the effectiveness and the formation the regular feedback which is what i want to focus on today we've lived listened for seven years we serve the church throughout the world our primary focus is the united states which we want to be a significant influence in the world for our heavenly father's kingdom of justice love and peace us can be an influence in a lot of ways this is our reason for being an influence strategic evaluation our ci outreach team focused on the quantitative and qualitative data generated up to january 2023 partnership successes and failures we called what seemed to have met our goal and objectives as well as what did not and best practices based on these activities we think that we have identified best practices for formation at this time and in this place right now best practice dioceses are these number one spot goes to columbus columbus is really has been doing amazing things and the data that i really want to show you is in the last column this is the percentage of their learners who are active meaning they have engaged the system within the last four months 72 percent is a highs the highest percentage of engagement on our system and just think about this for a moment in your own ministry if you had 72 percent of the people coming to all of your events actively engaged in their formation what you say praise the lord yes okay so go ahead say it praise the lord all right so columbus is leading in the area of their schools but i just found out with marlin and sister the parasite is now going to be beefed up so that the parasite and the school side can work together on this so you'll notice the number of learners they have right now is 1516 and i'm going to tell the active column here in just a little bit why there are other numbers there and then the number of dormant learners number of active presently green bay wisconsin just amazing there is a webinar on franciscan at home under the faqs in which we interviewed the team in the diocese of green bay wisconsin if i had to present to you a diocese with what i would consider the most fruitful cooperative diocesan ministry it would be green bay right now they have a bishop bishop ricken who um has said everyone listen to the holy spirit he has given them a unified vision and everybody works together and all egos are checked at the door that's you know how difficult that is in ministry okay it's usually the ego that brings us down and in the diocese of green bay and by the way these dioceses please contact them if you've got questions and you're not if you're not part of the diocese contact them they'd love to share with you their best practice uh baltimore maryland i mentioned schools i have schools underlined here too because what baltimore just recently did is they had started back in 2017 with parishes but recently in 2021 they switched 100 aob we call it all on board with their schools and they're the ones that's the schools right now who are really leading what's going on in baltimore that's why they have such a high percentage right now of active yes everybody uh so good i'm really glad you asked that so school personnel school personnel we don't have any data that separate parents from everybody else but that was a really good question thanks lansing lansing where's lansing there we are lansing lansing's got a very high percentage here too 61 percent good job lansing um that's wonderful trenton new jersey right now is running 60 active oma tibido uh does anybody know where oma tibido is it's south of new orleans south of new you didn't think there was anything south of new orleans did you oma tibido south of new orleans uh they have all their schools on right now they're going to be bringing the parishes on in about a year i think notice they're at 59 engagement right now and uh have any of you survived a hurricane before oma tibido oma tibido has survived two hurricanes and they are i mean i'm just so amazed by their resilience uh in that diocese uh madison wisconsin is at 54 percent pittsburgh now pittsburgh is actually number one in the number of active learners okay percentage wise they have 53 percent who are active right now but notice how many learners they have signed up in pittsburgh now the reason i want to mention this especially is the approach of columbus is not the approach of pittsburgh at all and you can look anybody in here can look at their approaches by simply going to franciscan at home dot com go to the partnering dioceses drop down menu and look at the landing page for these different dioceses the columbus approach is so different than the pittsburgh approach and the oma tibido approach is so different than the trenton new jersey approach you know your diocese we don't but we listen to help you do it best okay and uh i'm just showing you there is no cookie cutter way in which it works so for us to share with you best practices is actually going to have to be very customizable we'll share those and then uh the top 10 here stubenville and narlands okay again norlands even though we have all parishes in schools it's really the schools that are kind of leading things in new orleans also okay so the real time evaluation tools that are now available which you may have never seen before are on the diocesan officials learner progress page and the learner progress page i'm going to take columbus here because they're in our number one spot dr trisa russinella is the one who is really organized uh the partnership with the diocese of columbus so when she logs in this is her dashboard any diocesan official well anybody with a learner has a dashboard okay but as a diocese and official she has a diocese and officials dashboard which means she has a tab here for learners if you are just in a parish or just in the school and you're not a diocese and official or you're not even an institutional leader you don't have a learners tab we're going to look at the learners tab the progress tab here there are now four real time evaluation tools okay this is in your handout the four real time evaluation tools the ones that we had were the demographic report and the workshop evaluation report what we've recently added are the cumulative data report and the individual learner data report we did this in response to desire from the field especially from schools schools that needed data for their accreditation they needed to know the levels of engagement of their teachers and how many of them had actually finished workshops and formation those data are now available using these other tabs but i want to show you just really quickly what a demographic report looks like this is a screenshot and in the diocese of columbus right now the demographics are pretty similar to most states in the united states in terms of age and in terms of gender the ethnicity here is not necessarily the average in the united states there there's a little bit more variety columbus tends to be a little bit more it's not as heterogeneous it's more homogeneous and then the educational level that's pretty close to the educational level that we get across the board in the united states okay so that's just demographic data in case you're curious the cumulative data report is the one that's brand new now i'm just showing you the top of the page i'm going to show you the bottom of the page in just a moment because it's the bottom of the page that you may want to see most often if you're a diocese and official so the cumulative data report you'll just see at the very beginning here they have right now these particular customized tracks these are customized for their diocese of columbus and you'll see how many have started and how many have completed okay so it just gives you raw data it doesn't say who it is yet that's a different tab all right and then at the very bottom of this page i'm going to show you where i pulled the active learners versus the dormant learners and that's something that you really want to take a look at but let me go to the third tab now the individual learner data report so if i'm looking for a particular institution so let's say i'm with all saint school and we've got accreditation coming up and we've got to generate data to give to our accreditation our visiting team etc i'm just going to mention this real fast i'll show you in the moment at the very bottom you can export all of these data as a csv file now as a diocesan official you have access to any of this so you could simply look up all saint school use that as a filter and then export as a csv file all of the data for all saint school or you could even be more specific about a particular track so let's say in schools you've got two different tracks at least one track is all teachers coming in and then the second track would be teachers who are at intermediate or religion teachers or basic catechesis you can make whatever track you want to and so you can figure out also use that filter and again export a csv file same thing the franciscan tracks are our stock tracks available to anybody it's the custom tracks that are going to be helpful to you though okay and then above that even you can also right now you've got all these data up here those particular tabs also will give you specific data on those tracks on those courses of study workshops etc then the fourth evaluation tool i'm going to go a little bit more in detail with this one because this is the one that you probably will be demanded of by those above you and they're going to say show me the numbers show me that this is worth the price that we paid so this is your fourth tab and it's the workshop evaluation summary report right now this is in the diocese of columbus and you'll see that there are multiple sections here i'm going to point this out to you in detail all right this is now just the page the workshop evaluation summary page so i am going to let's see if i can get into it hold on i should be able to connect to the internet here i should be able to connect to the internet here there we are that's where we're going okay i'm going to go into franciscan at home.com i want to show this to you because you need to be able to access this yourself i'm demonstrating it again i'm going to ask you just to hold on on your questions just a little bit we can always come back to this okay always come back to it i uh first need to log in here i have uh abilities to log in as anybody what are you laughing at okay all right it's called administrative rights administrator rights excuse me so right now i'm going to go to columbus again let me go in as trisa and what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you this these tabs about the csv's where you can find it yourself and generate this these data again i'm on the learner progress tab when i get to the learner progress tab i'll have the four real-time evaluations yes yes i was thank you oh i am so glad you said that father jacob you are so smart okay uh we are now we're oh no it's still there uh hold on let me see if i can end slide show there we are okay now i'm in okay learner progress tab uh cumulative data report is what i just want to highlight for you real fast if you've never seen this page when we get to the questions and answer session at the end we'll come back to the page i can explain more of it to you the cumulative data report i'm scrolling down now you saw the top part of this in my slide just a little while ago i'm going to go to the very bottom columbus has so much data there's an amazing amount of data there so the two numbers i looked for at the bottom is the number of active learners versus the number of dormant learners this is why columbus is at the top right now you have so many active learners there uh which is really amazing that in my mind as a diocesan official is the number you want to look for readily to give you a measure how well are people engaged okay now you can specify particular institutions and customizable tracks in addition to that but if you want to get a fast view of how much engagement we have going on that's the place where you want to go that's under the cumulative data report when you go to the individual learner data report at this point at the very bottom there's a small button csv i don't know if you can see it but that will export all of the data that you are presently searching for so if i want to find a particular institution like all saints academy i simply click on all saints academy and it will only export the data for all saints academy okay and your teachers are really going to want this yes no go ahead please ask now is this what yes we are scaled to mobile devices right now i'll just say since it is not an app you still have to come in through your browser okay but it is all scaled to mobile devices okay thanks for asking all right and then i'm going to go back here and the the last thing that i just wanted to show those to you and we will get back to this is now i'm going to show you the workshop evaluation report and i'm not going to show it to you live i'm actually going to go back to my slides because i was able to highlight a few things and let me highlight here okay so this is the workshop evaluation report and what i wanted to show is the diocese of columbus is actually very typical of our entire system but i wanted to specify for that particular diocese which is now having the highest level of engagement we have multi-dimensional formation so human intellectual or doctrinal spiritual and pastoral formation and you'll see right now we are beyond good and we're approaching excellent in all of our workshops and what they are saying concerning the usefulness in your spiritual formation the usefulness in gaining pedagogical skills getting doctrinal understanding and the relationship of this workshop to daily life the delivery via video that is the clarity of the workshop the presenter's ability to teach is also at good and heading toward excellent okay what we want is we want to know how demanding is this and we want to hit it right in the middle okay about right and you know we are about right in our catholic adult learning model which is trusting tasking praying giving growing and that's what we're asking here concerning mentoring again we are at good and approaching excellent concerning catholic mentoring or disciple making and then here's what i would call the equation for the gift of the ci approach we have excellent formation multi-dimensional excellent delivery via video you add in that about right catholic adult learning and what you get are fruitful experiences with the lord and with one another even though you'll see there's a large amount of people who spend five or hours or more doing their formation but they're not complaining about it because we know that we're hitting about right and we know that they're evaluating it as excellent including the mentoring right and then if you look at the number down here did you find the handouts in this workshop beneficial most of them only nine percent say no that means 91 percent say yes or somewhat and then did the overall experience of this workshop meet your expectations only four percent say no that means 96 percent are saying yes or somewhat which is in the positive category isn't it 96 percent i think we're doing a pretty good job okay so our diocesan partnership here's how we serve you we need a partnership letter from your ordinary prior to the letter or as a follow-up we request meetings with your ordinary the vicar general and your diocesan officials we create a customized landing page for you you can see all the landing pages they're all visible to everybody on franciscan at home dot com under partnering dioceses we create custom tracks for you from your dashboard or the about page you can see the list of all the available workshops that we have over 200 plus workshops the all on board is the best practice we have done the data and the data say that 96 percent of all the active learners so now we have over 37 000 active learners 96 percent of them are in dioceses that are all on board and the reason that happens is because there's a unified momentum we're all moving together okay not uniformity unified because the needs in schools are different than the needs in parishes the needs in youth ministry are different than the needs in hispanic ministry the needs for marriage renewal are different than the needs for those in eucharistic discipleship okay it's a unified approach but it's not uniform the ci outreach team events that i talk about we can either do on-site or zoom okay and i know some of you in here so we're going to do it in different ways so i'm going to be going to los angeles uh at least three times over the next 12 months okay but if they need me to come out more i will los angeles is the largest diocese in the united states and their decision to partner means that they want to accompany all of their people and we are committing ourselves to be with them to have that happen okay the let's see who else do i have here um oklahoma city i have not yet been in oklahoma city okay but they're retooling right now they're refreshing they're they're looking at it but they're one of the earliest partners and i actually i don't know if i ever mentioned this to you kitty i use oklahoma city as an example over and over and over again because really what began at the very beginning there in oklahoma city in my opinion is one of the very best ways to approach things okay um i have done zoom events uh all over the country okay um and that's what we want to make available to you all of these are free uh if they are for formation but if you invite us into a parish and you want me to speak on eucharistic discipleship which i love to do it's one of the highest-rated workshops we have we're going to ask for a stipend for that event okay but for the formation events to get you going on the partnership that's all free okay and we want to do these especially for pastors um uh notwithstanding the wonderful priest is in our midst but priests can be a little bit demanding about about whether or not they're in control of something okay so so we really like to present to the priests first and then they finally give the nod yeah okay i think this is a good idea go ahead you can do it everyone and we don't demand a lot of time with them we'd love to have a whole day but we know how busy they are and if we can get at least an hour hour and a half that works out really well uh diocesan leadership new and ongoing engagement we want to be there for you we get started on a partnership come bring us back okay we find that that works really well later leadership there's initial and again topical in services uh theology of the body eucharistic discipleship um oca okay and then cultivating continuous conversion accompaniment and disciple making and then our partnership also means onboarding mentors and leaders their initial formation of local existing catechetical leadership as per number five c above and sustained formation okay what are the challenges and solutions what did we find when we did our strategic planning well the first thing there is a lack of certification structures if i had to do a just a fast survey of those of you here i don't want to because i don't want anybody to be embarrassed okay but no diocese is doing the same thing as any other diocese okay it's just not happening but we find that thriving dioceses have a clear vision and a defined benchmarks of faithfully creative ministry formation that works however you want to do it we're not saying it has to be done a certain way it's got to be localized two the plug-and-play mentality didactic models of formation are replaced with pastoral accompaniment dialogical learning and personal engagement plug-and-play is not going to work anymore three lack of follow-up free semi-annual or annual follow-up ci events strengthen connections between true video workshops and personal encounters i thank god for covid i know that may sound really really strange but the reason i thank god for it is because everybody realized we still needed to communicate with one another and instead of me physically going to dioceses i spent most of my time providing formation events via zoom and many places it worked now i can be on the road and i can be providing follow-up in-person formation events as well as initial formation events but for us it's always the combination of the two the lack of urgency from the top down leaders need empowerment to implement the ordinary's vision with incentives and consequences that is the hardest thing for us to do in ministry is to let somebody go it's so hard but it has to happen okay five discouragement certificate ceremonies recognition overcome discouragement in ministry and then number six the gap of understanding thriving dioceses properly communicate the church's understanding of good catechesis formation and accompaniment so i'm going to show you a new health meter that we've just created we found that the following practices with the ci partnership address effectively or at least mitigate and make manageable the challenges below have your diocesan team please rate your approach on a scale of one to ten that is not existent to presently strongly present on these 32 items then meet with the ci outreach team member to review and to plan strategically for mission effectiveness let me tell you what the five categories are and then i'm going to show you the new health meter the categories are just like what we did with the challenges and strengths so partnership direction is determined diocesan clergy are involved and supported diocesan leaders are involved and supported lay leaders and principles are involved and supported and ministry formation structures are developed what i'm going to show you now is not in your handout because we have not finalized it but i'm going to show it to you right now and this will be the occasion for us to have conversations it becomes the occasion also for you to do strategic planning of objectives and strategies so again i've just kind of read for you use the scale of one to ten actually we've just put in a field here this field changes for whatever day you're doing it we're expecting a relationship to last longer than a year so each year i will be or our strategic partnership liaison fellow will be evaluating with you your relationship and how it's going so that we can identify action items for the next year and the strategies to take to get to those items so first point just to give you an idea a thorough intake interview is conducted by a member of the ci outreach team it provides a basic assessment of the present evaluation needs and deliverables and a diocese and these needs are evaluated on an annual basis so over here in this category you would put in the date when that happens and then over here you put the rating of how well it happens when we send this to you which we will we're not going to we don't have it ready today it will be in a pdf format so that these are fields that you can fill in and under the actions and by whom this will be a field also that you can fill in because it could be really long and it'll expand on its own okay and you could say for 2023 these are the action items we're going to take and these are the persons who are responsible for it if you don't identify who's responsible for the action it'll never get done there's got to be an accountability system within the diocese okay so let me just give you a second one a letter from the diocese and ordinary establishes a partnership between the diocese and the ci no financial commitment is attached to the writing of such a letter so you should have a date when that comes in you should be able to say yep this is done we got a 10 all taken care of and then underneath that where it comes actions by whom bada bing bada boom it's all done okay a meeting with diocese and ordinary and relevant leadership takes place on site or video conferencing etc okay you get the idea let me take it down i'm going to go down a little bit farther and this is where we go into even more detail and this becomes the area where we help you strategize for best practices so leaders of relevant groups participate in ci formation partnership on site or video conference launch events that is day long ci formation trio best practice is to hold separate launch events for different ministries so you have one for pcl's one for youth ministers ones for principals in order to respond to particular needs of those ministries in depth i give you the basic idea here but over in the left hand column you could identify this under the actions we're going to do schools on this day principles here we're going to do youth ministers here we're going to do pcl's here that's the way we're going to create this tool so you've got something to keep track of it and you rate it off to the right side okay and then underneath in providing the free ci formation partnership launch events with a significant amount of time and tone on the following how do you discover the real needs urgencies we use a listening exercise called SWAT strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats i give you the results of all the SWAT and that becomes for you your your data by which to strategize how are we going to meet these focus on the spiritual growth rather than only on functionality and roles this is the least done but we find it the most needed action what are you doing here's the date how would you rate it right now because maybe in the future you're really hoping right now it's at a number three man can we get this up to five etc okay so this is the new tool that we're using based on what we've heard from the field and what really works okay i'm almost to the end here and then i'll let you go on the questions let me see health meter and then lastly again i'm using green bay here bishop ricken just sent us this endorsement just to let you know other dioceses bishop fernandez just sent his endorsement thank you we have other dioceses coming in actually we have a wonderful endorsement from march bishop cochlea also so we have many dioceses sending their endorsements right now because we want to share with the rest of the world all of the wonderful good news that's taking place by our service to y'all so bishop ricken says i'm most grateful for the ministry and efforts of the catechetical institute of franciscan university of stubenville they've been on the cutting edge of forming catechetical leaders and others of the faithful in a charismatic catechesis that is life giving and life changing their ministry as a vital service to the church especially at this juncture of history therefore it's my wish to affirm my support for the catechetical institute and to endorse their efforts and then we have gwen here at sacred heart parish from the diocese of venice she says i'm not only working through the workshops i'm loving the workshops i've learned so much and been so inspired by what i've learned so far i'm looking forward to elective courses that are possible thanks for finding the program and making it possible it's such a small charge for the parishes i am most grateful so how may we help you to form those who form others in the faith and we remain at your service and you remain in our prayers thank you for your attention today