Through 110 workshop hours, common worship, a course of readings, projects
completed in the participant's parish or diocese, and involvement in a learning team between sessions CDI provides:
- ◆ Assessing a congregation as a Christian community
with unique dynamics - ◆ Establishing a clear direction and vision grounded in the
Church's mission and identity - ◆ Navigating towards that vision implementing a variety
of leadership styles - ◆ Managing the dynamics of the transformation process
dealing with conflict and resistance
- ◆ Role of diocese in congregational development
- ◆ Relationship cycle in organizations
- ◆ Shaping parish life to enable effective Christian
formation - ◆ Issues of Organizational culture
- ◆ Dynamics of parish size
- ◆ Facilitation skills
- ◆ Self-differentiated leadership
- ◆ Using peers as a support and resource
- ◆ Myers Briggs concepts of personality type
- ◆ Using four core frameworks in congregational
development - ◆ Developing trust and managing conflict
- ◆ Encouraging growth and Evangelism
- ◆ Defining and marketing the parish
- ◆ Responding to the changing world around us