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Resources: Diakonia & Deacon Supervision

Lifelong Learning

Lifelong learning can include many things. In addition to traditional CEU credits, you might want to consider working with your diocese to developing a plan based on your gifts and strengths and how best to acquire any new skills you many need. Resources can be explored based on your plan, and the plan can alter as needed.

• Charter for Lifelong Christian Formation
• Meaning Making from Experience: Five questions to help you reflect on an experience
• Project Worksheet: Questions to help you identify goals of a learning project
• Learning Project: Proposal and Contract
• Workshop Outline: Developing skills & competence for ministry​​​
• Lifelong Learning and Ministry, Deacons Phina Borgeson, John Willets, 2005

Post Ordination Formation, Canon III.7 Section 4 (f), Diocese of Maryland

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Learning Institutions 

• ChurchNext: Learning in scripture, liturgy, prayer, self-care, history & theology
• Forma: A ministry of Episcopal Church Foundation and partnered with the Office for Formation Ministries 
• Coursera: Learn from leading universities and companies

​Canadian Institutions

• ​Thorneloe University
• University of Waterloo
• Athabasca University

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From the 2008 Archdeacon/Deacon Directors' Conference

• What is an Independent Learning Plan to Improve Our Competency?
• Learning Project Proposal and Contract
• Reading Analysis Worksheet
• Meaning Making from Experience
• Learning plan for leadership in diocesan environmental ministry, by Phina Borgeson
• Bibliography: ​Readings and Texts in Adult Development and Learning
• Experiential Learning and Learning Styles, by David Kolb
• Learning Project Work Plan

Beyond Ourselves: What Deacons Teach Us
This issue of Pathways Magazine is devoted to Deacons. Diocese of Atlanta 2011.

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