L2 Summative Feedback from Mentor (FF Observing)
Progress Towards Recognition as a Level Two Formation Facilitator
Apprentice Name:
Murita Chua
FF Name:
Anna Boyagoda
L2
1. Has this apprentice been open to your feedback and willing to focus on areas that require further practice?
Murita has been fully and joyfully open to feedback. Throughout the course, she showed development in her delivery of presentations in adult formation. I particularly noted her working on making her wonder questions more an act of co-wondering than a leading of the participants to specific aspects of the point of the Christian message. She also worked on slowing her pace of delivery.
2. Do you have concerns about this person that may affect her/his ability to continue in formation as a CGSAC formation facilitator?
Murita brings so much experience as guide to this work. She will be an excellent formation facilitator.
3. Which skills and/or presentations have you identified and communicated to the apprentice to focus on in the next level two course she/he co-facilitates?
Murita and I discussed what I see as the two most difficult aspects of offering formation in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: de-schooling and helping participants to recognize the "new child" that Maria Montessori discovered. We spoke about how to help course participants to understand de-schooling, not as a concept but as a practice, through the way that we model presentations. This requires a particular pace and way of co-wondering, which resists too many or leading questions, and a comfort with silence. We spoke also about how to constantly hold that image of the "new child" who is revealed through his/her work in the prepared environment, as the reality of who the child is, rather than falling back on the images of children that are so often carried by individuals. We spoke about how in formation, we must always speak about the child who is revealed rather than about a transformation that we need to bring about.
4. What would you suggest be covered in a FF workshop or FF course that would give this apprentice greater knowledge and confidence to facilitate a level two course?
Murita has great confidence working with course participants. Practice delivering presentations will help her to grow in her capacity to model for the participants.
5. If this apprentice is currently in stage one, working with two experienced formation facilitators:
Do you feel this apprentice is ready to begin stage two of the apprenticeship period?
i.e. is capable of carrying half the workload of the formation team
No
Murita is certainly capable of carrying the workload, but would benefit from working again with two formation facilitators.
6. If this apprentice is currently in stage two, working with only one other experienced formation facilitator: Do you feel they are ready to be recognized as a Level Two Formation Facilitator?
No
Any Further Comments:
It was a joy to work with Murita.
Thank you for taking the time to observe and provide feedback on this apprentice formation facilitator. Your guidance ensures we continue to offer the best quality CGS formation possible and help CGS catechists to grow in their roles as a confident formation facilitator, able to pass on the gift of CGS handed down to us by Sofia Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi.