On Going Formation: Training in the Practice of Group Facilitation 2025

Online Course in English with Intensive Practicum in Rome.

The Aims of this course:
· Train facilitators for Group Facilitation.
· Provide first level skills.
· Lay foundations for higher levels of training.
· Provide a training rooted in Heart Spirituality, discernment, accompaniment, and self-discovery (Formation of the Heart).
· Provide a process-oriented approach to facilitation .
· Enable facilitation practice with groups in the Chevalier family.
· Gain confidence in facilitation.
· Accreditation and recognition that is endorsed by the MSC General Conference.
· Provide a register of competent and trained facilitators.
· Grow communities of Facilitators across the Chevalier Family.

The course:
This 14-week course is divided into 8 online modules and a 2-week residential intensive.

Online Modules in your Time:
Each online module, apart from the Orientation and Concluding Modules, has 5 Units (or Lessons). You complete
it at your own pace.
The Orientation Module consists of preparatory information to do the course and setting up technical requirements you need to participate online.
During the online modules participants are expected to join a weekly Online Learning Community with other participants and attend a weekly accompaniment session with their designated trainer.

Face to face Practicum:
The two-week residential intensive will involve experiential learning, in which the cohort of course participants will predominantly work with one another, accompanied by the course trainers.
They will engage in real-time facilitation reflecting on their practice, skill, attentiveness, listening, and leadership.

Englisk program 2025:
· First Five Modules – Online. March10 – April 19, 2025.

Module O: Orientation – March
Module 1: Introduction to Facilitation
Module 2: Facilitation Skills
Module 3: Webs of Interdependence Module 4: Systems & Dynamics

· Residential Practicum – 2 weeks in Rome. April 20 – May 3, 2025
· Three Consolidation Modules – Online. May 3 – June 16, 2025

Module 5: Facilitator’s Tool Kit
Module 6: The Way of the Facilitator
Module C: Integration & Conclusion Graduation

Costs of the English Program:
· The cost of the course itself will be covered by generous benefactors, to whom we are enormously grateful
· Travel costs (flights, visa, other costs) to Rome for the Practicum must be met by the province or other entity who is sponsoring the person undertaking the training.
· In cases where assistance is needed, please enquire.

Who is it for:
· Members of the Chevalier Family: MSC, FDNSC, MSC Sisters, Lay Chevalier family
· Leaders and Leadership Teams who want to learn skills in leadership using discernment and accompaniment.
· Those working in Ongoing Formation.
· Formators working to empower formandi in the journey of self-discovery and impetus for mission.
· Leaders interested in enabling others by connecting them to their own interior passion.

Expression of interest:
· Contact: Chris Chaplin, MSC
· Email: chrischaplin@msc-chevalier.org
· Mobile / WhatsApp: +39 331 260 4329