FSA 2027 Formation offerings in the fsa year of peac

Outlined Below Are The FSA Formation Program Offerings for 2027.

Each Program is co-created with the school community and UNIQUELY contextual.

2027 FORMATION OFFERINGS – whole school and short course formation.

2027 FSA Formation Offerings Download

From the FSA Living Stones Identity Framework 2027 is the Year of Peace

This year invites us to build peace, both personally and as a Franciscan Family, with the eyes of faith. It is an opportunity to recognise goodness and nurture peace in our communities.

FACILITATION COSTS 2027

Member Cost Full day engagement = $1450.00** + travel costs includes full program and facilitation by the FSA facilitation team, pre & post program collaboration, day facilitation normally 8am – 3pm | input & workshops negotiated | non-member schools add 10% | ** Extra $550.00 CRA Approved Stipend for a Franciscan friar priest who celebrates Mass.

Half day engagement or twilight = $950- + travel costs| on ground costs

Keynote or workshop engagement = $750- + travel costs| on ground costs

Retreat Engagement – upon request

WHOLE STAFF Formation – Charism

Staff Formation programs are co-created with each school community with the ultimate goal being to accompany each community to formulate a sequential spiritual formation program for their unique school context.

Formation may include day / twilight / workshop / retreat offerings such as:

SF Charism 2027: Encounter Peace. Align the day to the Living Stone Peace.

A full day formation program for all staff to explore and be inspired by the Franciscan call to be builders of peace in the world. Keynote and a variety of workshops that explore peace and justice can be co-created.

SF Charism 1: Living Franciscan Spirituality.

A full day formation program for all staff in your community to explore and be inspired by the rich history and deep spirituality of the Franciscan way of life. An overview of where the tradition began with Francis and Clare of Assisi, an historical context, provocations in image & objects, Gospel values and breaking open the Franciscan tradition.

SF Charism 2: Enter Assisi.

A half day or full day formation program about the Franciscan spirit for new staff and staff who need to be renewed in the spirit of Francis and Clare of Assisi.

SF Charism 3: Repair My House

A twilight or full day formation program that explores the call from the San Damiano crucifix. Catholic education in the Franciscan tradition speaks to us more than ever at this time – our young people need models of people simply living the Gospel life. What does living the Gospel mean for us today?

SF Charism 4: His Name was Francis.

A workshop, twilight or full day formation program that explores ten key teachings of Francis of Assisi. e.g. The First Teaching = the wonder of the incarnation; etc— Adapted from Surrounded by Love: Seven Teachings from Saint Francis by Murray Bodo, OFM | from Franciscan Media website

SF Charism 5: Clare of Assisi – the lady, the Saint, the inspiration.

“The Lady Clare, a native of the city of Assisi, a stone precious and strong above all the others of the pile, was the foundation.” — Thomas of Celano, First Life of Francis

A twilight or full day formation program that explores Clare of Assisi from aristocracy to poverty as well as Clare’s legacy – Sister to Saint to Stimulus for school communities and leadership teams today. Find out about St Clare through painted literature and artwork. Discern Clare’s charism and your own spiritual gifts.

SF Charism 6: Deep Listening and Dialogue.

A full day formation program for all staff to explore ‘Francis and the Sultan’ narrative as a powerful message for encounter, dialogue and service in Catholic school communities. First Nations deep listening can be added to this day by engaging Wakka Wakka woman, Brooke Prentis also.

SF Charism 7: God the Artist

Francis used to praise God the Artist in every one of God’s works. An experiential workshop at a gallery where we explore spirituality, art and the artist within.

Alternatively, a workshop, twilight or full day formation program that incorporates keynotes and experiential creative activity taking inspiration from all of creation.

SF Charism 8: Brothers and Sisters All

A twilight, half day or full day formation program for all staff to encounter Franciscan spirituality and to explore the concept of fraternity as together we journey towards the embrace of God. Using key messages from Pope Francis’ 2020 Encyclical Fratelli Tutti and the FSA Living Stone ‘Embrace’.

SF Charism 9: The Why To The Way

A twilight, half day or full day formation program for all staff to explore why Franciscan spirituality and the Franciscan spirit has endured for 8 centuries. Furthermore staff can examine unique ways the vision of Francis and Clare of Assisi can be lived in their community today.

SF Charism 10: Fraternity – that indescribable Franciscan thing!

A twilight or workshop formation program for all staff to explore five key tenets of a Franciscan ministry. Presented as a pilgrimage this is a creative experience for all.

SF Charism 11: Stories from Francis – The Little Flowers – Brother Wolf of Gubbio and others

A twilight or workshop formation program for all staff. Explore one or more of the Little Flowers. Enrich the story and draw out key messages for your community and our world today. There are many collected stories about Francis and his early followers. Clare of Assisi also has a collection.

SF Charism 12: Kinship with Creation

Workshop OR twilight option that explore the kinship model of creation that Franciscans live (see link for more) ( Kinship and Creation Probing Francis website) This option is perfect for exploring Laudato Si‘ in more detail and Francis’ hymn The Canticle of the Creatures.

Be inspired by Pope Francis’ 2005 encyclical Laudato si’ and respond in creative ways to the beauty of all of creation.

SF Charism 13: Retreat or Twilight ‘Total Absorption’ and Renewal

A full day or twilight retreat program for all staff.

One of the main principles of Francis’ spirituality is the call to a life of PENANCE. Penance for Francis meant total absorption in God, a fascination with God. His encounters through his life and the charism we celebrate as we live today, makes this focus concrete for us.

Come as you are, follow in Francis’ footprints to spend a gentle retreat day / twilight being absorbed in God. Feed your soul, find space to connect your inner and outer, be transformed and renewed in the Holy Spirit through a fascination with all of creation.

2027 SHORT COURSE OPTIONS

SF 1 Term 1: Lent With St Francis – a retreat day with Alison Stone

Member Schools $155.00 non-members $170.00 Includes program, resources and full day hospitality.

QLD: Monday March 01, 2027. 9:30am – 2:30pm. Santa Teresa Spirituality Centre, Ormiston, Brisbane.

OTHER STATES TO BE ADVISED

Come as you are, follow in Francis’ footprints to spend a gentle Lenten day being absorbed in God. Feed your soul, find space for yourself to connect with God and with nature, be transformed and renewed in the Holy Spirit through a fascination with all of creation. Prayer, contemplation, reverence creation, be in fraternity with other educators.

Details emailed to schools in Term 1 2027. JOIN HERE

SF 2 SHORT COURSE Term 2: Book and Online Connection Circles

Book = HOPE: Unfinished Business
Edited by Kelly Humphrey, Dr Lisa Buxton & Lana Turvey Collins. Published by St Pauls Books.

Hope: Unfinished Business is a collection of stories and desires written by strong and faith-filled Catholic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who through storytelling, prayer, art and motherhood have found hope and healing in their lives. Offered as a gift the Church in Australia, it aims to nourish and support the ongoing works of formation and mission leadership. Book supplied to all participants.

Member Schools $100- non-members $140- Book supplied & posted. Study questions and spiritual reflections will refer directly to the reading and form the basis for the online “Fratelli Connection Circles”.

Details emailed to schools in Term 1, 2027. REGISTER HERE

The PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

assigned reading, study and reflection (approx. 9-10 hours total) from the supplied book by William J. Short, 1999. Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition, Darton Longman & Todd Ltd, US.
THREE online MS Teams “Fratelli Connection Circles” with members of the FSA Formation Team and your registered FSA colleagues from around Australia.

Term 2, 2027
Connection Circle 1 = Thursday, 29 April 2027           3:30pm – 5:00pm
Connection Circle 2 = Thursday, 13 May 2027            3:30pm – 5:00pm
Connection Circle 3 = Thursday, 27 May 2027           3:30pm – 5:00pm

SF 3 SHORT COURSE Term 3: FSA Living Stones Series

Three lectures. One tradition. Contemporary questions.

Join Alison Stone, FSA Animator of Mission and Identity and other educators around Australia for a new series of ONLINE lectures especially targeted to enrich the classroom practice of staff in Australian schools.

Franciscan wisdom for the heart, the classroom and the world.

Living Stones is a series of 3 x 1-hour online formation and professional learning opportunities designed especially to enliven the Franciscan spiritual tradition in schools and Colleges today.

Drawing inspiration from the FSA Identity Framework and staff formation days that FSA has facilitated across Australia over the past 5 years, Alison and members of the Formation Team will share parts of the Franciscan intellectual tradition that are relevant and engaging for all staff in schools today.

The format is a 35-minute lecture followed by 20-minute collaborative sharing of wisdom. Each Living Stone Lecture topic will be deeply rooted in the Gospel yet speak directly to contemporary Australian schools, communities and global challenges. Topics explored will be deeply connected to the time when God speaks to Francis through the San Damiano crucifix Francis, go now and repair my church which, as you see, is falling down. This is still the call today. How can we rebuild the church today, here and now?

Member Schools $90- non-members $120-

Details emailed to schools in Term 2, 2027. JOIN HERE

The PROGRAM SCHEDULE: daylight savings in place

assigned reading and reflection from the documents supplied by FSA about the Franciscan Living Stone Lecture topic.
THREE online MS Teams “Living & Learning Circles” with members of the FSA formation team and your registered FSA colleagues and educators from around Australia.

Term 3, 2027
o Living & Learning Circle 1 = The San Damiano Crucifix Explained | Wednesday, 28 July 2027 | 3:30pm – 4:30pm (QLD) | 4:30pm – 5:30pm (NSW, VIC, TAS )
o Living & Learning Circle 2 = Wisdom from the Lady Clare of Assisi | Wednesday, 11 August 2027 | 3:30pm – 4:30pm (AEST QLD) | 4:30pm – 5:30pm (NSW, VIC, TAS )
o Living & Learning Circle 3 = Simplicity & Presence – 8 key Franciscan Tenets for ministry today | Wednesday, 25 August 2027 | 3:30pm – 4:30pm (AEST QLD) | 4:30pm – 5:30pm (NSW, VIC, TAS )

RETREAT OFFERINGS AND PILGRIMAGE

SF 4 Franciscan Retreat – choose your focus

PEACE / One Heart and One Soul / Many Gifts : One Spirit / “The Lord gave me some brothers” (Testament 14, FF 116)

The Franciscan Retreat can be a 1 – 2 day overnight formation opportunity for leaders in school communities – senior leadership teams, middle leaders and teams within schools and colleges.

Retreat has long been a part of the Franciscan spiritual experience and this retreat offers participants a valuable opportunity to invigorate the richness of the Franciscan charism with a prophetic vision toward the future. The task of preserving and nurturing a charism must go hand in hand with ongoing renewal and reimagining where the Spirit is leading Franciscan leaders and teams in schools today.

Come as you are for spiritual and professional discernment as we come together as one heart and are renewed in the Holy Spirit through fraternity.

The Franciscan Retreat program is negotiated with the school community and specifically tailored to the needs of the team.

Cost: Retreat Engagement – upon request includes full program facilitation, venue, accommodation and retreat resource package.

SF 5 FSA FRANCISCAN PILGRIMAGE PROGRAM

Rome, Greccio and Assisi – 12 nights | September 20 – 02 October 2027.

HEARTBEAT and FOOTSTEPS PILLGRIMAGE

The Franciscan friars and FSA Team who lead this pilgrimage will ensure an authentically Australian and Franciscan pilgrimage experience with Jesus, the Church, and importantly, with Francis and Clare of Assisi who lived the Gospels, all within the context of an Australian education framework

Alignment with educational and professional development requirements.

This transformative experience of spiritual, professional and personal growth invites pilgrims to immerse themselves in the story of Jesus, the Church and the Franciscan tradition. Rich encounters of the early, universal and Franciscan Church unfold in Rome, while in Assisi pilgrims are drawn deeper into the heartbeat of the Franciscan charism. Experience joy, fraternity and goodness on this FSA Heartbeat and Footsteps pilgrimage.

Cost: Program Cost: approx. $6,100.oo pp [on ground program ONLY based on 25 pilgrims| airfare not included)

includes full program facilitation, Franciscan accommodation and pilgrimage package.