Pastoral Collaboration:
How Do We Do All This Together?
Brother Loughlan Sofield, a leading consultant
on collaborative ministry, personal development, and leadership,
offers thoughts on models or processes for becoming more
collaborative. Using U.S. Bishops' statements on young adults,
lay ministry, and women, he states that identifying and
promoting one another's gifts are of paramount importance,
and he identifies four key components of collaboration while
reflecting on obstacles to collaborative ministry. In his
lecture, Br. Sofield raises important questions such as:
How can we best use the gifts and talents available to us
in the parish and larger Church? Now that we have identified
the obstacles to collaboration, where do we go from here?
How do we bring this back to our pastors and the parish
at large? This lecture was originally released on February
26, 2000 as part of a STEP videoconference series.
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Brother Loughlan Sofield,
ST, a leading consultant on ministry and personal
development, lectures and gives workshops across the
United States as well as internationally. His two
most recent books were awarded first place by the
Catholic Press Association: Building Community:
Christian, Caring, Vital, co-authored with Rosine
Hammett and Carroll Juliana; and The Collaborative
Leader, co-authored with Donald Kuhn. He is senior
editor of Human Development magazine and a
member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy
Trinity.
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