Sunday, June 10 to Wednesday, June 13, 2007
AGENDA (as of April 11, 2007)

Goals:

• Take as deep a look as possible at the Benedictine monastic life and values to inform us about community strengthening from the practitioners

• See how a sustainable environment is only possible with a sustainable community

• Form new understanding(s) and skills about community formation by listening and learning from all kinds of perspectives

• Create expanded hope that communities can be created in a world of tension, fear, and isolation

• Recognize and rejoice that we are all constructing communities and we all want to be better at i

• It is just the beginning; we will learn here, practice when we leave, and come together a few years from now to learn again

Format—every day we will:

1)  Meet in the same group once or twice
2)  Hear new ideas from new perspectives
3)  Share in music
4)  Have quiet time
5)  Option for opportunities to pray with monks and sisters
6)  Have time to experience the outdoors

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Theme of the day: Learn from traditional and new monastic communities
Purposes of the day:

• Create safe, supportive environment

• Build a sense of belonging and excitement

• Begin community in small groups

• Immediate active engagement of all attendees

• New understanding of monastic communities

10:00 – Noon  Final Preparation for Fosterers and Kindlers
10:00 – 2:00   Arrival and Registration, settling into rooms
2:00  Welcome: What is this?  What will I do?  What is my group? Terri Barreiro and Patrick Henry
2:15     Singing into Community-   Barbara McAfee
2:45     Community: A Monastic Perspective- Prioress Nancy Bauer, OSB and Abbot John Klassen, OSB
3:45  Meet Your Community Group Fosterers host
5:00  Evening Prayer in Abbey Church
6:00  Supper- Refectory
7:00  Consuming Community: Emerging Youth Culture and Its Implications for Community-Abbot Christopher Jamison, OSB

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Theme of the day: Seeing from people’s perspectives
Purposes of the day:

• New understanding of our own perspectives

• Understand power of world view on community participation

• Learn power of the narrative

• Gain new perspectives on variety of communities

7:00 am   Morning Prayer, yoga, quiet walks
7:30-8:30  Breakfast-   Refectory
8:45   What Kind of View of the World do you Have? (Participatory activity)-Led by David O’Fallon
10:15 Break
10:45 Community Assets—Building with What You Have- John McKnight
Noon Prayer in Abbey Church
12:30-1:15  Lunch- Refectory
1:30   Community Groups – group walks
2:30   Story Telling--Narrative as Community Connector-Jolivette Anderson-Douoning
3:30   Individual time—writing and reflection of our own narratives
5:00   Mass in Abbey Church (for those who wish to attend)
6:00  Supper- Refectory
7:00  Community Groups

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Theme of the day: New communities in a diverse world

Purposes of the day:

• See power of music

• Listen to others’ perspectives on community

7:00 am   Morning Prayer, yoga, quiet walks
7:30-8:30  Breakfast Refectory
8:30  Buses to Saint Benedict’s Monastery

9:00  A View of Community from the News Hour Desk-Ray Suarez
10:15  Community Groups
11:30  Noon Prayer at Saint Benedict’s Monastery
12:15  Picnic Lunch
1:15  Campus Tours of Saint Benedict’s Monastery and the College of Saint Benedict
2:15  Music as Community Creator-Melinda Wagner                                                           
3:15  Break
3:30  Community Groups
4:45 Buses back to Saint John’s
6:00  Supper   -Refectory
7:00  Evening Prayer, Abbey Church
7:30  New Communities in a Diverse World- Bishop Thomas Hoyt, Jr., interviewed by Jane Leyden Cavanaugh

8:45  Talent Night at Brother Willie’s Pub

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Theme of the day: What does it mean for you?
Purposes of the day:

• Summarize individual experience

• Share what we have learne

• Explore new views of Community

7:00 am  Morning Prayer, yoga, quiet walks
7:30-8:30  Breakfast- Refectory
8:30  Community – Observations on What it Is and What it Could Be-Krista Tippett
10:00  Community Groups – what we have discovered; creating gifts for the future
11:30   Adjourn – Thank yous and good byes
12:00   Noon Prayer
12:30  Lunch