CRITERIA FOR ANIMATION AND GOVERNANCE THE ASSOCIATION OF

CRITERIA FOR ANIMATION AND GOVERNANCE THE ASSOCIATION OF THE SALESIAN COOPERATORS Rome, World Council 2016

More: Personal relationships, sharing, and participation Fewer roles and less authority

STRUCTURES DOING IMMEDIATE AND URGENT TERRITORIALISM INDIVIDUALISM CENTER ON PEOPLE MOTIVATE AND GUIDE CHOICES CENTER ON THE ESSENTIAL COMMUNION - CONVERGENCE AROUND A PROJECT

STYLE OF ANIMATION 1 Be WITH PERSONAL relationships 5 2 Accompany 3 Salesian Cooperators’ taking the lead 4 Encourage a JOURNEY Of growth

v Organic Unity with the Formation Guidelines q HUMAN, educational–pastoral, DIMENSION q CHRISTIAN DIMENSION q SALESIAN DIMENSION

POINT OF DEPARTURE The PERSON of the COOPERATOR and his/her insertion into the reality of an ASSOCIATION DYNAMISM OF GROWTH L RA Y O T ST RI PA HA C REALITY OF THE CENTER A V P VOCATION MEMBERSHIP EVANGELIZATION EDUCATION - CULTURE OBJECTIVES A PERSONALITY CONFORMED TO CHRIST ACCORDING TO SALESIAN SPIRITUALITY

More Strategic choices, planning, and verification Less multiplication of tasks, activism, and improvising • Formation - Animation as a whole, a journey, a dynamic of transformation of the person and of reality • The PVA as a tool that creates synergy and unity, and which directs the SSCC and builds Identity and Communion • Objective and continuous Verification that checks results, and corrects or adapts, so as to gain better results.

Precise and concrete objectives • • Orderly and connected series of activities • Plurality of persons and of groups that share objectives and coordinate efforts

INVOLVE ALL LOCAL CENTERS AND THE PROVINCIAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS FROM A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO EXPERIENCE AS ASSOCIATION • People who take care of UNITY • United plans and processes FORMATION TEAMWORK • Development of all the dimensions of the PERSON • COORDINATION of the Sectors at all levels

ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANIMATION The group of people who identify with the Salesian Mission the Salesian CHARISM Salesian Spirituality assume the tasks of calling together motivating Involving all those who are part of the ASSOCIATION to help the SSCC grow to put the PVA into effect

LEVEL OF GOVERNANCE ANIMATION COORDINATOR local, provincial, regional, world Local, Provincial, World Delegate and Councilor for Formation AND COUNCIL LEVEL OF COORDINATION LEADERS OF EACH SECTOR

HUMAN DIMENSION Main Recipients A style and an educational vision A specific way of viewing reality and of responding to it Attentive to the socio-cultural reality of the young

CHRISTIAN DIMENSION Fosters the Religious Dimension Accompanies the faith experience Offers gradual experiences of service and apostolic commitment Lives and proposes Salesian spirtiuality

SALESIAN DIMENSION AT ITS ROOT: The Preventive System A Spiritual Experience A proposal rich in humanity THE PREVENTIVE SYSTEM A pedagogical methodology

The Salesian Family A great tree planted in a fertile land. . . the land of Valdocco. . . the land of Mornese. . . the land of the laity. . . the land of one’s culture

1 2 3 SPIRIT OF SERVICE - PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS rather than business relationships CO-RESPONSIBILITY, SOLIDARITY, AND PARTICIPATION more than immediate effectiveness COLLEGIALITY AND SHARING OF VALUES El proceso educational rather than leaning on authoritativeness

Style of animation Social Communications Planning Mentality FORMATION - PVA COMMENTARY - CRITERIA SPIRIT OF SERVICE HUMAN DIMENSION CO-RESPONSIBILITY and COLLEGIALITY CHRISTIAN DIMENSION SOLIDARITY SALESIAN DIMENSION CRITERIA FOR ANIMATION AND GOVERNANCE