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Faculty Formation | The Seelos Institute
The Seelos Institute Faculty Formation initiative offers spiritual and intellectual formation for Catholic educators.
What do we offer?
- Regular formation for Catholic school faculties in the Kansas City area
- Monthly or weekly schedules available
- Direct instruction in the faith for the teachers
- Space and opportunity for prayer
- Space to reflect on how the faith shapes our understanding and practice of Catholic education
- Opportunity to grow in friendship with people on your own faculty
Summer in-services/retreats for educators and administration
Topics available include:
- Foundations in Catholic education
- Evangelization/discipleship
- Catechesis
- Moral formation in the school
- Christian anthropology
- How to provide faculty formation for your school
Why would this be appealing for my school?
The Church teaches in her documents on education that ongoing formation is an essential aspect of the life of teachers. The strength and vigor in the faith and intellectual life of our faculty is the normal instrument that Christ uses to reach his students. Our formation seeks to provide a space to do what we as teachers fell in love with doing: pursue the Truth and encounter the Word made flesh.
What does the Church say about formation for our educators?
"The preparation and ongoing formation of new administrators and teachers is vital if our schools are to remain truly Catholic in all aspects of school life. Catholic school personnel should be grounded in a faith-based Catholic culture, have strong bonds to Christ and the Church, and be witnesses to the faith in both their words and actions. The formation of personnel will allow the Gospel message and the living presence of Jesus to permeate the entire life of the school community and thus be faithful to the school’s evangelizing mission."
Our Philosophy
The Blessed Seelos faculty formation program has three goals: To grow in friendship with the Jesus, friendship with each other and to reflect on how these first two impact the vocation of the teacher.
By Friendship with Jesus, we mean to grow in our knowledge of Jesus that is both theological and spiritual as preserved for us in the tradition of the Catholic faith of the last two millennia. This seeks the inherent unity between the doctrine of the Church, the Sacraments, the Moral life and the life of Prayer as expounded in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It also includes the true Philosophy that is implicit in this Theology that is the refining of the human mind unto wisdom which is Jesus himself.
By Friendship with each other, we mean to grow in our relationships as faculty within the schools. To be friends means to be looking at a third thing side by side another person. A Catholic school is first and foremost a community of friends seeking to know and love the LORD and the world he made. Our work as teachers is based on this experience of leisure in the truest sense where we contemplate the world that God has made in all of its aspects. It also means having time together as humans to enjoy each other’s company and pray for each other.
By The Vocation of Teacher, we mean all the aspects of the life of being an Christian educator that are enriched by the previous two elements. Our understanding of Jesus, the Church, the human person, the nature of reality all shape a particularly catholic view of education. This can be very practical but it starts by simply seeing the most profound truths that make up the role of the Catholic School.
Need more information about Faculty Formation? Contact:
Faculty Formation Coordinator
Facilitator of Faculty Formation
Facilitator of Faculty Formation