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ADVANCED ASSIGNMENT --
THREE INTERVIEW PROCESS
To be completed by all new participants (Track One) before
arriving at the summer session.
Interviews are not only a data gathering process but are also system
interventions. They are not neutral, they affect the people being
interviewed and those doing the interviewing. This process is designed
to be used as a means to help participants explore both the interviewing
process and the issues raised in the interviews.
The same basic tool may be used as a congregational development
intervention, in an expanded process, involving a significant potion of
a congregation’s members. Such a process might open up issues
regarding a congregation’s living of the renewal-apostolate cycle --
helping a community both come to appreciate what is done well and to
improve.
The Process for Use in a Learning Setting
1. Please interview three members of the congregation
-- two who are regular and frequent participants in the Eucharist and
one who is regular but not frequent. Your task is to listen deeply, with
an appreciative ear, and record their responses to the questions. Please
do not allow yourself to take on a teaching or explaining role in
relation to the issues that emerge. If that seems called for ask if the
person would like to do that in a second session. If a person is
confused by a question or doesn’t like the question, move on. While
you want to complete the interview in a timely manner, you may also want
to enter into the process with follow up questions. Please avoid any judgment
on what the person is sharing.
2. You will need to make copies of this form so you
can use them to make rough notes during the interviews.
3. Bring your notes to the program.
4. A good preparation for interviewing is to have
someone else interview you asking the same questions or to fill out the
sheet on yourself.
Interview Questions
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| Interview #2 |
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| Interview #3 |
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1. What are the major sources of pressures, demands and expectations
in your life? How do you see them as helpful or stressful, etc?
2. How do you work at "balancing" these expectations,
demands and pressures?
3. How do you renew yourself emotionally and physically?
4. How do you renew yourself spiritually?
5. How does your practice of Christian faith and/or the congregation’s
life help or hinder each of the areas noted above?
a. Expectations/demands/pressures
b. Emotional/physical renewal
c. Spiritual renewal
6. How does your practice of Christian faith and/or the congregation’s
life relate to your work, family and civic life?
© Robert A. Gallagher, 1996 |