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Collaborative Ministry

Collaborative Ministry. Bill Pickett Fr. Doug Della Pietra Planning Group Leadership Day March 31, 2001. Collaboration Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry. Loughlan Sofield, ST Carroll Juliano, SHCJ. Collaborative Ministry. Definition Four Levels of Collaboration

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Collaborative Ministry

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  1. Collaborative Ministry Bill Pickett Fr. Doug Della Pietra Planning Group Leadership Day March 31, 2001 Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  2. CollaborationUniting Our Gifts in Ministry Loughlan Sofield, ST Carroll Juliano, SHCJ Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  3. Collaborative Ministry • Definition • Four Levels of Collaboration • Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Common Myths About Collaborative Ministry • Reflection Questions Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  4. Collaboration Collaboration is a style of performing ministry in a way that is completely based on the identification, release, and union of all the gifts in the Christian community so that the mission of Jesus Christ continues. Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  5. Collaboration Collaboration is a style of performingministryin a way that is completely based on the identification, release, and union of all the gifts in the Christian community so that the mission of Jesus Christ continues. Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  6. Collaboration Collaboration is a style of performing ministry in a way that iscompletely based on the identification, release, and union of all the gifts in the Christian communityso that the mission of Jesus Christ continues. Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  7. Collaboration Collaboration is a style of performing ministry in a way that is completely based on the identification, release, and union of all the gifts in the Christian communityso that the mission of Jesus Christ continues. Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  8. Collaborative Ministry • Definition • Four Levels of Collaboration • Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Common Myths About Collaborative Ministry Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  9. Four levels of collaboration • Co-existence • Communication • Cooperation • Collaboration Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  10. Characteristics of Achieving Level 4 of Collaboration • Acknowledges, articulates, and experiences a sense of ownership of a common mission • Achieves a sense of unity accompanied by a desire to work together for a common goal • Decides to identify, value, and bring together the various gifts Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  11. Collaborative Ministry • Definition • Four Levels of Collaboration • Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Common Myths About Collaborative Ministry Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  12. Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Clarification • Conviction • Commitment • Capacity/Capability Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  13. Clarification • A common and shared understanding of collaboration is essential. • This is achieved through conversation and sharing. • Collaboration is based completely on the concept of gift. • Identification, release, and union of all the gifts in the Christian community Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  14. Key questions to evaluate • Do we assign the roles and functions based on a discernment of gifts? • Is our effort truly ministry, i.e., focused on serving others rather than simply deepening our communal relationships? • In what ways does our collaborative effort further the mission of Jesus Christ? Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  15. Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Clarification • Conviction • Commitment • Capacity/Capability Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  16. Conviction • Collaborative ministry is messy. • Commitment to collaboration will endure to the extent those involved have a strong conviction of its importance and value. • Without conviction, collaboration is abandoned once the messiness manifests itself, as it surely will. Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  17. Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Clarification • Conviction • Commitment • Capacity/Capability Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  18. Commitment • No one is unconditionally committed to collaboration. • Even those staunchly convinced of the value of collaboration, experience resistance. • Resistance comes from fears and obstacles. • Identify, discuss and resolve these. Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  19. Major Obstacles to Collaboration • Low self-esteem • Arrogance • Burnout • Inability or unwillingness to deal with conflict • Unwillingness or fear of sharing faith • Lack of knowledge of one’s own and others’ gifts • Obsession with issue of power Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  20. Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Clarification • Conviction • Commitment • Capacity/Capability Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  21. Capacity/Capability • Skills • Spirituality • Process • Developmental readiness Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  22. Skills • Group leadership • Conflict resolution and management • Confrontation • Discernment of gifts Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  23. Spirituality Ministry is the embodiment and expression of spirituality. While an action may be good, it is not ministry unless it is an expression and an overflow of one’s relationship with God. By baptism all Christians are called to holiness and to ministry, that is, to a spirituality which has two dimensions, a deepened relationship with God and an expression of that relationship in action. • Moves to compassionate action • Encompasses forgiveness • Reflective • Shared • Fits the person • Affective • Able to integrate failure Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  24. Process • definite process • common, gospel-oriented vision • method for identifying gifts • clarification of roles and responsibilities • accountability and evaluation Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  25. Development Readiness • Four calls as a Christian • holiness • community • mission and ministry • Christian maturity • Generativity as developmental stage • “Am I mature enough to collaborate?” Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  26. Collaborative Ministry • Definition • Four Levels of Collaboration • Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Common Myths About Collaborative Ministry Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  27. Common Myths • Collaboration is easy. • Membership in a group constitutes collaboration • Collaboration is an end in itself • Collaboration is primarily about decision-making, power, and authority • Consensus is the only appropriate decision-making process in a collaborative group Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  28. Common Myths • Collaboration is egalitarian. There is no place for a designated leader. • Collaboration is limited to staff/team Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  29. Collaborative Ministry • Definition • Four Levels of Collaboration • Practical Steps to Collaborative Ministry • Common Myths About Collaborative Ministry • Reflection Questions Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

  30. Collaborative Ministry Bill Pickett Fr. Doug Della Pietra Planning Group Leadership Day March 31, 2001 Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry Sofield and Juliano

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