1. Finding
Your
Community
of
Ministerial
Practice
By
Dr.
Charlotte
McCorquodale
Ministry
Training
Source

2. Charlotte
McCorquodale,
PhD
Ê From
Lake
Charles,
LA;
currently
lives
and
ministers
in
Diocese
of
Baton
Rouge,
LA
Ê Served
in
youth
ministry
practitioner
since
1980
in
Lake
Charles,
Houston,
Los
Angeles,
Mobile,
Lake
Charles,
and
Baton
Rouge.
Ê Member
of
the
following
communities
of
practice
NALM,
NFCYM,
NACYML,
e-­‐Learning
Guild,
and
ASTD
Ê LSU
Graduate,
“The
Emergence
of
Lay
Ecclesial
Youth
Ministry
as
a
Profession
in
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
in
the
United
States.”
Ê A
member
of
a
large
family
of
LSU
and
Saints
fans!

3. THIS
WORKSHOP
IS
ABOUT
……

4. YOU!!!!!!!

5. Goals
of
Today’s
Workshop
Ê To
focus
on
the
role
that
learning
with
others
(in
community)
plays
in
your
ministerial
productivity
and
competence.
Ê To
examine
what
is
meant
by
a
Community
of
Practice
and
how
this
can
be
applied
to
your
ministerial
leadership
and
development.
Ê To
identify
current
communities
of
ministerial
practice;
and,
how
you
can
go
about
finding,
starting,
or
enhancing
one.
Ê To
develop
a
plan
or
goal
for
your
participation
in
a
community
of
ministerial
practice.

6. Let’s
get
to
know
each
other…
Ê Please
find
two
other
people,
introduce
yourself,
where
you
are
from,
and
what
ministry
you
do
on
behalf
of
the
church.
Ê Why
did
you
select
this
workshop
and
what
is
one
thing
you
hope
we
discuss
today?
Ê Please
share
one
challenge
you
are
experiencing
in
ministry
right
now?

7. Have
we
lost
our
sense
of
community?

8. What
do
we
mean
by
Community
of
Practice
(CoP)

9. Is
this
a
community?

13. What
is
the
difference
between
a
community
and
a
team?

15. What
do
we
mean
by
“practice?”

20. How
would
you
deBine
learning?

22. Learning
is
a
change
in
the
learner’s
knowledge
due
to
experience.
—Richard
E.
Mayer,
Applying
the
Science
of
Learning

23. Is
learning
today
different
than
in
previous
generations?

24. Has
learning
changed?
Ê Is
it
more
social
or
individualized?
Ê Is
it
more
formal
or
informal?
Ê Is
it
easier
or
harder?

26. Motivation
the key to
all
learning!

27. Share your best experience
of learning with others.
What made it so good?

28. What
is
a
community
of
practice
(CoP)?
“…are
groups
of
people
who
share
a
concern,
a
set
of
problems,
or
a
passion
about
a
topic,
and
who
deepen
their
knowledge
and
expertise
in
this
area
by
interacting
on
an
ongoing
basis.”
(Cultivating
Communities
of
Practice
by
Etienne
Wenger,
p.4.)

29. One
of
my
Communities
of
Ministerial
Practice
(CoMP)

30. A
CoP
is
a
unique
combination
of
3
fundamental
elements:
a
domain
of
knowledge
which
de@ines
a
set
of
issues;
a
community
of
people
who
care
about
the
domain,
and
the
shared
practice
that
they
are
developing
to
be
effective
in
the
domain.

31.
Communities
of
Practice
Take
Many
Forms
Ê Small
or
Big
Ê Long-­‐lived
or
Short-­‐lived
Ê Co-­‐located
or
Distributed
Ê Homogeneous
or
Heterogeneous
Ê Spontaneous
or
Intentional
Ê Unrecognized
or
Institutionalized
Ê Formal/highly
structured
or
Informal/loosely
structured

32. What
CoP’s
or
CoMP’s
are
you
a
part
of
currently?

33. What
do
all
Communities
of
Ministerial
Practice
(CoMP)
need
to
be
successful?
Ê DOMAIN:
A
well-­‐defined
domain
provides
common
ground
and
identity.
It
affirms
the
purpose
and
value
to
members.
Ê COMMUNITY:
The
community
creates
the
social
fabric
of
learning.
A
strong
community
is
based
upon
trust
and
fosters
participation.
Ê PRACTICE:
The
practices
includes
a
set
of
frameworks,
ideas,
tools,
language,
and
information,
that
members
share.
The
domain
denotes
the
focus
topic
or
issue
of
the
CoP,
while
the
practice
includes
the
specific
knowledge
the
community
develops,
shares,
and
maintains.

34. Why
are
we
talking
about
this
at
a
gathering
of
ministerial
leaders?

36. Are
ministry
leaders
required
to
continued
formation
and
learning?

37. A
Response
to
the
Church’s
Mandate
“Both
temporary
and
permanent
ministers
are
obligated
to
acquire
appropriate
formation
which
is
required
to
fulfill
their
function
properly
and
to
carry
it
out
conscientiously,
zealously,
and
diligently”
(Canon
#231).

38. The
Church
as
a
Learning
Organization
From
Peter
Senge,
The
Fifth
Discipline:
The
Art
and
Practice
of
Becoming
a
Learning
Organization
A
learning
organization
is
one
that
is
continually
expanding
it’s
capacity
to
create
it’s
future.
They
are
possible
because
deep
down
we
are
all
natural
learners.
Real
learning
gets
to
the
heart
of
what
it
means
to
be
human,
because
through
learning
we
re-­‐create
ourselves
and
the
world
around
us.

39. The
Five
Disciplines
(keys)
of
a
Learning
Organization
Ê Personal
Mastery
Ê Mental
Models
Ê Building
a
Shared
Vision
Ê Team
Learning
(Shared
Wisdom)
Ê Systems
Thinking:
The
Fifth
Discipline
©
2004
Ministry
Training
Source

40. Personal
Mastery
“Personal
mastery
is
the
Two
underlying
discipline
of
continually
movements
are
clarifying
and
deepening
our
involved:
personal
vision,
of
focusing
our
energies,
of
developing
1) Clarifying
what
is
patience,
and
of
seeing
important
to
us,
and
reality
objectively.
The
key
to
this
discipline
is
2) Continually
learning
living
life
with
intentionality
how
to
see
current
and
from
an
importance
reality
more
clearly.
paradigm.”

41. Creative
Tension
Vision:
Current
What
we
Reality:
want
to
do,
Where
we
our
goal
or
are
relative
vision
to
what
we
want…
What is the creative tension in your ministry?
©
2004
Ministry
Training
Source

42.
How
do
we
close
the
gap?
Two options, we can either lower our standards
(vision) or move towards our vision!
©
2004
Ministry
Training
Source

43. What
is
the
gap
between
your
vision
and
the
current
reality?
©
2004
Ministry
Training
Source

44. “Every question possesses a power
that does not necessarily lie in
the answer to the questions.”

45.
How
does
or
could
technology
or
social
media
support
CoMP’s?

46. 46

49. Seven
Principles
for
Cultivating
a
CoP
Ê Design
for
evolution.
Ê Open
a
dialogue
between
inside
and
outside
perspectives.
Ê Invite
different
levels
of
participation.
Ê Develop
both
public
and
private
community
spaces.
Ê Focus
on
value.
Ê Combine
familiarity
and
excitement.
Ê Create
a
rhythm
for
the
community.

50. Different
Levels
of
Participation
The
key
to
good
Peripheral
community
participation
and
a
healthy
degree
of
movement
between
levels
is
to
design
community
Active
activities
that
allow
(15-­‐20%)
participants
at
all
levels
to
feel
like
full
members.
Rather
than
force
participation,
successful
communities
build
Core
(10-­‐15%)
benches
for
those
on
the
sidelines.

51. What
communities
of
practice
exist
nationally?
Ê National
Association
of
Lay
Ministry
(NALM)
Ê National
Association
of
Catholic
Youth
Ministry
Leaders
(NACYML)
Ê National
Association
of
Catholic
Chaplains
(NACC)
Ê National
Association
of
Pastoral
Musicians
(NPM)
Ê National
Catholic
Education
Association
(NCEA)
Ê National
Catholic
Young
Adult
Ministry
Association
(NCYAMA)
Ê National
Association
of
Catechetical
Leaders
(NCCL)
Ê ETC….
Just
google
it!

52. Communities
of
Practice
Discussion
Ê Share
current
communities
of
ministerial
practice
that
you
are
a
part
of
or
aware
of?
Are
they
successful
at
engaging
members?
Why
or
why
not?
Ê What
is
one
aspect
within
the
practice
of
your
ministry
that
you
believe
you
need
to
increase
the
effective?
Ê If
you
were
to
form
a
community
of
practice
around
an
issue
that
important
to
you
who
would
you
invite
to
be
a
part
of
it?
How
would
you
gather
and
form
community?
Ê If
you
have
been
in
ministry
for
a
long
time,
how
are
you
contributing
to
the
development
of
future
ministry
leaders?

53. IF
NOT
US
WHO?

54. Concluding
Prayer
(by
Joseph
Cardinal
Bernardin)
O
Lord
of
the
harvest,
work
out
your
will
in
us,
that
we
might
prepare
others
to
be
laborers
for
your
harvest.
Transform
us
ever
more
completely
into
the
image
of
your
Son,
that
we
might
call
others
to
ministry
as
he
called,
teach
them
as
he
taught,
and
form
them
as
he
did.
We
make
this
prayer
in
your
most
holy
name.
Amen.
54

55. Thank
you
for
your
participation
Contact
Info
for
Charlotte
McCorquodale,
PhD
417-­‐693-­‐1882,
charlotte@ministrytrainingsource.org
www.ministrytrainingsource.org