Mentoring and Supervision

Mentoring and Supervision

Mentoring and Supervision

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NRVC survey on mentoring reveals positive experiences

By Carol Schuck Scheiber

Clearly, mentoring has a positive impact on both parties involved, as well as on the larger religious community. That is the overriding message from the membership survey on mentoring that the National Religious Vocation Conference conducted last summer. Read more...

Handling the subtleties of vocation mentoring

By Carole A. Riley C.D.P.

Usually a 10 p.m. phone call signals a student canceling an appointment. As I answered the telephone, Molly said, “You’re the most spiritual person I know; could I be a nun?” Read more...

Effective vocation programs with a mentoring dimension

By Carol Schuck Scheiber

There are many ways to bring together those who are considering religious life and those who have lived it for years. Any time people from those two groups come together, the door is opened for mentor-type relationships to emerge. Read more...

Peer supervision: path to self-awareness in vocation ministry

HORIZON interviews Helen Cahill, OP

Because vocation ministers are engaged in companioning other people, they need others to companion them in their ministry. Peer supervision is one such avenue for them, for it allows vocation ministers to explore their personal experience and to name the interior movements that take place within them as they companion another. Read more...

Supervision and consultation: the vocation minister meets the mirror

By Sister Cindy Kaye R.S.M.

Supervision provides the support, guidance and oversight that every vocation minister needs to be both faithful and fruitful. Read more...

The Role of Supervision in Vocation Ministry

1. What is supervision? Read more...

Supervision: Finding grace under pressure

Supervision: Finding grace under pressure

By Sister Helen Cahill O.P.

Supervision has helped many vocation directors to remain faithful and grounded in what can be a pressured ministry. Read more...

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Mrs. Teri Iverson

Mrs. Teri Iverson

“I’m an off-the-charts extrovert,” says Mrs. Teri Iverson, vocation ministry coordinator for the Sisters of the Precious Blood in Dayton, Ohio. “I love building relationships and connecting with people in person at conferences and events.” She comes to vocation ministry after three decades in youth ministry. Read more...

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