Born of collaboration, built for transformation: preparing facilitators to serve consecrated life.
ABOUT US
We are passionate about facilitation and seek to create a strong facilitation program that nurtures the profession and expands the needed capacity for consecrated life.
Collaborative Spirit
We believe collaboration is the only way to move forward in our world and we seek to be a witness to this way of working.
Global Mindset and Experience
We believe that cultural context is important in the training and application of facilitation. The organizations and core collaborators, as well as other faculty for this program come from varied cultures and have experience working with a broad range of cultures and regions in the world.
Dedicated to Consecrated Life
Each organization supports consecrated life. The core collaborators are themselves part of consecrated life with two as members of religious congregations and two as members of Focolare.
Decades of Experience
Among us, we have years of experience offering different types of facilitation. We also invite other facilitators to contribute, enriching the wealth of experience and sharing.
Collaborating to Serve Consecrated Life
The need to foster a new group of facilitators is clear. We each saw this need and sought collaboration as a way to respond.
Bringing together our varied expertise and abilities, we developed Facilitation for Transformation, knowing we are stronger together than alone.
Creating a community of facilitators to respond to the needs of consecrated life as well as many other applications is our greatest hope.
CORE COLLABORATORS
Emili
Turú Rofes, FMS
Faith & Praxis
Emili is a Marist Brother and the Director of Faith & Praxis with extensive experience as a facilitator for leadership teams, as well as congregational chapters and assemblies with a global reach.
Emili was in leadership for the General Government of the Marist Brothers for 16 years, with 8 years as Superior General.
He has a background in education, theology, and was teacher. Emili participated in the first International Leadership Programme in Rome, organised by Faith and Praxis together with the Grubb Institute and the Craighead Institute.
Linda
Buck, CSJ
Leadership Collaborative
Linda is a Sister of St. Joseph and the Executive Director with the Leadership Collaborative. She has worked as a facilitator with congregations as well as teams/committees, organizations and ministries, gifted to be able to do this at the global level.
Linda has a background in clinical psychology, spirituality, theology, leadership and transformative social change and integrates these areas to foster change with hearts and minds of individuals, groups and systems.
Alberto Frassineti
Eva Gullo
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Eva and Alberto belong to the Focolare Movement. They are a couple in life, but also in work. Their work has no competition, at least in the secular world.
With a background in humanities and sociology, and a degree in nuclear engineering and experience in the metalworking sector, Eva and Alberto left their respective careers to devote themselves full-time to consulting and accompanying institutes of consecrated life in their processes of redesign, as well as moderating/ facilitating general and provincial chapters and assemblies.
Romina
Sapinoso, SC
Leadership Collaborative
Romina is a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati and an Associate Director with the Leadership Collaborative. She has a wealth of experience in education and is passionate about education as a tool to effect change in our world.
Romina has oversight for the coordination of Facilitation for Transformation. She has experience planning and implementing programs globally and looks forward to building a network of relationships among facilitators.