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Everything you need for the journey of the Forge
All downloadable materials of the Claretian Formation Manual, organised in five parts: foundational aspects, dimensions of transformation, accompaniment, discernment, and the formation protocol.
Foundational Aspects
The interpretive ground of the whole manual.
Foundational Vision
The transformative lens, the Forge of the Missionary, developmental vision, formation ecosystem, and the portrait of the mature Claretian missionary.
Foundational Faculties
The human faculties engaged in formation: intellect, will, affectivity, memory, and their formative dynamics.
Dimensions of Transformation
Core skills, virtues, practices and self-capacities for each formative dimension.
AHuman Dimension
A.1.Human Formation
A.2.Intellectual Formation
BChristian Dimension
B.1.Pastoral Formation
B.2.Spiritual Formation
CClaretian Dimension
C.1.Charismatic Formation
C.2.Community Formation
Accompaniment
Resources for formators and spiritual guides.
Accompaniment in Formation – General
The overall framework, purpose and grammar of formative accompaniment.
Practical Guidelines for V.G.S.
Concrete guidelines for Vocational Growth Sessions: structure, rhythm and record-keeping.
Psychological and Ethical Dimensions
Boundaries, confidentiality, competence and the ethics of the accompanying relationship.
Skills for Accompaniment
Listening, questioning, reflecting, confronting and summarising in formative dialogue.
Awareness of Attachment Styles in Formation
How attachment patterns shape relationships, authority and community life.
Mental Health Awareness in Formation
Recognising signs, responding appropriately, and knowing when to refer.
Structural Diagnosis for Formators
Reading personality structure and developmental level within the formative process.
Formative Intervention
Designing and carrying out interventions proportionate to the situation.
Accompany
Integrative synthesis of the accompaniment process from first meeting to review.
Discernment
Learning to read the movements of the Spirit.
Introduction to Discernment
Foundations: what discernment is, what it is not, and its place in formation.
Ignatian Rules for Discernment
The rules for the discernment of spirits and their formative application.
Cultivating a Discerning Heart
Interior dispositions, indifference, freedom and habitual attentiveness.
Personal and Community Discernment
Processes for individual decisions and for communal discernment.
Discernment – Reading the Signs of Daily Life
Finding God in ordinary events, relationships and responsibilities.
Vocational Discernment
Accompanying the discernment of vocation across the stages of formation.
Leadership and Discernment
Discerning governance, authority and decision-making in mission.
Protocol for Formation
From discernment to a concrete formation plan.
Protocol Practical Tools
The seven-step formation protocol with its worksheets: trust building, discerning dimensions, assessing capacities, identifying growth areas, the formation plan, accompaniment, review and integration.