Shared Visions
Archives
At a national gathering
in 1986, the directors of Catholic lay volunteer and
missioner programs said they needed resources to help nurture their volunteers.
Shared Visions, a quarterly publication, was the result of this
need. It was developed to help volunteers explore five building
blocks of spiritual development: Intellectual Growth, Emotional and Physical
Health, Leadership and Prayer.
This Shared
Visions Archive has been indexed according to the typical volunteer year
cycle. The issues of Shared
Visions have been filed into four categories
with the most recent volume at the top of each section.
The sections are as follows:
Beginning Concerns
Number 1
Everything
is new for the volunteers or missioners during their first few months of
service. These issues of Shared
Visions help volunteers to define expectations and concerns about their
community, job placement, program and themselves.
Mid-Year Discoveries
Number 2
As
communities and workers are settling in mid-year, many other concerns are now
surfacing and need to be processed and discussed.
Shared Visions helps to identify and work through these discoveries.
Further
Challenges
Number 3
The
home stretch has started. Volunteers
are gaining a second wind and strengthening themselves, both in community and
personally. Shared Visions
recognizes this opportunity though, to continue delving deeper and confronting
challenges head on.
Closure
Issues
Number 4
The
time eventually comes when the volunteers and missioners prepare to move on to
their next step -- whatever it may be. Through
these copies of Shared Visions, we present exercises and reflections to help
make this transition easier.
Each issue of
Shared Visions may not fit exactly into these categories, but we always focus on
topics that are relevant to the volunteers' cycle. When you receive future issues of Shared Visions each
quarter, we encourage you to file them, according to their number, to then use
as a reference for your staff and volunteers.
For more information or suggestions about Shared Visions,
please contact:
The
St. Vincent Pallotti Center
415 Michigan Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20017
(202) 529-3330 * (877) VOL-LINK
Email: sharedvisions@pallotticenter.org
www.pallotticenter.org
