Discernment and Apostolic Planning

Launching processes for renewal and transformation

A new project for 2025

Training of Facilitators in Discernment in Common

An Ignatian Contribution for a Synodal Church

The synodal process has led to extensive demand for expert facilitators in Discernment in Common who can help Jesuits, other religious and the Church in general. To meet this demand, the Society of Jesus is launching a new project to train facilitators of discernment in common.

Making An Apostolic Plan

 Video series for leaders

How to start? How to lead the process? How to engage people and manage conflicts? Fr. John Dardis invites Jesuits and religious leaders on an adventure of apostolic planning, sharing theory based on his life-long expertise.

Apostolic Planning for Renewal and Transformation

event | Rome 5-8 december 2023

Apostolic planning practitioners of the Society of Jesus gathered in Rome for a week of training, sharing, and discernment in common.

Fr Genral Arturo Sosa SJ:
Apostolic Planning gives body to the Spirit

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Watch a summary video of the 2019 Jesuit Leadership Conference held in Rome at the initiative of the General Curia of the Society of Jesus.

Discernment in Common step-by-step guide

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“Discernment is not an advertising slogan; it is not an organizational technique or a fad of this pontificate but an interior attitude rooted in the act of faith.” (Pope Francis)

Discover a step-by-step guide of discernment in common hosted by the Discerning Leadership Program.

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