General Chapters – A Guide for
Facilitators, Planners and Participants
Dairne McHenry RSCJ
In collaboration with
Mary Harrington SUSC and
Gabrielle Stuart RSM
This Guide offers practical
information regarding general chapters of religious congregations.
It will be of interest not only to facilitators but also to congregational
leadership teams and to those
responsible for the planning and preparation of chapters.
It will be of interest also to those who take part in
chapters as either participants or staff.
The Guide is both factual and creative.
Discernment is the underlying principle of the step-by-step instructions
for the main stages of a chapter, beginning with chapter
preparation.
The Guide includes various processes and dynamics and a range of resources to
promote effective participation by all members at a chapter.
Over many years, the
co-authors have had wide experience of facilitation of general chapters in
different parts of the world. Through GLOIR, an agency sponsored by the Sisters
of Mercy and the Holy Union Sisters and devoted to providing education and
training in leadership and group work, they collaborated in giving workshops in
East Africa for the training of general chapter facilitators. This Guide
contains material used in these Workshops. As a result of this training, there
is now a pool of East African women religious available for general chapter
facilitation.
In the interests of making the Guide available to as many readers as
possible particularly on the African continent, the co-authors have waived
their right to royalties. However, to offset the many
pages used in photocopying materials during the training workshops, readers of the Guide are invited to make a
donation to a tree-planting project of their choice or to one or other of the following sponsors of such projects:
Society of the Sacred Heart,
Province of Uganda-Kenya: prov.econ@rscjugk.org
Sisters of Mercy, Province of
Kenya: province@sistersofmercykenya.org.ke
Holy Union Sisters, Tanzania: farrell.annette@gmail.com
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