Pastoral Cycle: Circle of Praxis

Question 1

What are the 4 movements in the pastoral cycle?

Answer 1

1. insertion/ immersion/ experience
2. social analysis
3. theological reflection
4. pastoral action/ orthopraxis

Question 2

it is the effort to obtain a more complete picture of a social situation in society by exploring HISTORICAL and STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS

Answer 2

SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Question 3

What are the assumptions for people doing social analysis?

Answer 3

1. personal connectedness bet you and the situation
2. genuine desire to understand how God speaks to us in this social reality we are part of
3. end goal: orthopraxis

Question 4

Why do we need to talk about history in trying to understand a social situation?

Answer 4

• to look at these people as subjects and not objets who shaped history
• recurrence of the unlearned

Question 5

What do we mean that we have to study structural relationships?

Answer 5

• look at how society is organized

- patterns of interaction

Question 6

Another type of social analysis that makes us seek out what is GENERATIVE & LIFE ENRICHING…

Answer 6

Appreciative Inquiry

Question 7

This type of social analysis makes people build a kind of solution that they are also willing to do

Answer 7

Appreciative inquiry

Question 8

Appreciative inquiry is generated through _______ and ________

Answer 8

a. appreciation

b. collaboration

Question 9

What are the steps in appreciative inquiry?

Answer 9

1. choose a positive area of focus
2. inquire into stories of life giving forces
3. locate themes that appear and encourage further inquiry
4. create a shared image of their preferred future
5. find innovative way to create their preferred future.

Question 10

What are the 4 stages of Appreciative Inquiry?

Answer 10

1. Discover- appreciate the best of what is
2. Dream- imagine what could be
3. Design- determine what should be
4. Destiny- create what will be