Br Paul Noonan Formation Centre, Tamale: MBTI Workshop

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

MBTI Workshop

On Friday March 27, after ministry, resting was the last option to think about as we made ourselves available to start a two day workshop on MBTI. It was great to have in our midst men in formation from the FIC and Presentation Brothers, making it a total of 26 participants. It was incredible at the end to come closer to discovering who we are and what makes each of us unique.

Thanks to the facilitators Srs. Mary Kay and Dorez for the well articulated presentation which helped us obtain knowledge of who we truly are in terms of personality preferences.
Praise God for the gift of the rationalists, the idealists, the artisans and the guardians in our community. May we be grow to be truly ourselves and flower freely.

We concluded this self realization workshop by celebrating our diversity in the oneness of love. In our thanks giving remarks to the facilitators, we pledged to use the MBTI input as a tool in our community for building healthy relationships.
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What do we want this novitiate to be?

There is a saying that goes something like this: “If we don’t do what we believe in, then we’ll end up believing in what we do”. Without a vision that is authentic and alive to guide our actions, then we can settle for rationalizing the status quo or what is convenient and comfortable.
One of the first things the new team in Tamale did was to spend time beginning to articulate its vision of a novitiate beyond the basics laid down in our Constitutions. Here are some elements of what we came up with:
Novitiate is a journey, a process that involves KNOWING, EXPERIENCING and CHOOSING.
It is an INITIATION into Christian Brother religious life, so a “rite of passage” into a new identity, a time of learning and testing.
Novitiate confronts the novices with the Brother’s vocation as a call to brotherly solidarity and community, not to privilege, status and security.
It involves exploration of the basic values of faith and vocation, and the challenge to embrace these out of personal conviction and free choice.
Novitiate means understanding that a religious vocation makes a claim on the whole of the person and his life, including his inner life, his relationships and his professional activity (ministry). Furthermore, it challenges the novice to see the dynamic inter-relationship of these areas and to learn what their integration means.
Novitiate is a time of DISCERNMENT. The novice learns more deeply who he is, and what this Christian Brother life is. There is a constant back-and-forth movement between these two poles as an answer is sought to the question, “Is this where I am meant to be? Is this the life that will enable me to find my true self in God?”