Tuesday, May 19, 2020

PASTORAL LEADERSHIP IN TIME OF C-19

Pastoral leadership

1. Practice Personal and Team Learning:

a. Pursue passions,

i. Explore what attracts or beckons
ii. Discover what energizes
iii. Recover what’s been suppressed
b. Examine what de-energizes

c. Pursue ministerial and professional proficiency, but…

d. Surpass competence and seek excellence

e. Report personal learning

f. strategize team learning, set dates, prepare, follow through

2. Practice Menagerie Ministry (possibly with a skilled consultant)

a. Name and tame Elephants: drive out blame, eradicate fear,

i. Nurture trust,
ii. Clear safe space,
b. Acknowledge Gorillas
i. Practice facing up to bad news
ii. Re-imagine failure
iii. Learn to welcome conflict as “something important going on”

c. welcome the Dove

i. Acknowledge, respect and engage change
ii. Inspire, call to, and lead change
iii. Re-align the change sequence: end; middle; begin

3. Cultivate and Share Spirituality: as persons, as teams

a. Take time for personal deepening

b. Bring your spirit to work

c. Honor Real Presence

i. Take time to be in God’s presence together
ii. Pray for each other
d. Set aside ordinary times -holiday
e. Set aside Sabbath time - for rest
i. Fold in to weeks, month
ii. Get away

4. Aspire to Common Mission:

a. Review the mission, link everything to it
b. Compose and declare a vision: with a “gulp” factor
c. Dream it, tell it, plan it, grow it
d. Name it, affirm it, take delight in small steps
e. Practice tagging
f. Ask, How does this foster my own personal mission?

Don. J.B Nyamunga
Girimori Catholic Parish - Keeicho

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