The Course Training Program takes on a practitioner-scholar model focused on professional practice and interventions. This model professionally trains participants to be research-based scholars and highly trained professional practitioners who apply psychological and spiritual knowledge and techniques to augment the quality of life as well as solve the problems of clients.
To facilitate the achievement of the philosophy and nature of the Course Training Program, the participants are expected to be highly motivated to study, learn, and be mentored by trained professionals. They are to work actively and be receptive to the grace of God, to their growth and transformation personally and communally, knowing that their way of being will affect their way of understanding and intervening with the clients. Thus, they need to get in touch not only with their call and giftedness to do the ministry for fellow priests/sisters, but also recognize and work on their emotions, personal issues, and vulnerability. It is only in this way that they become well-informed and formed practitioner-scholars.
The Course Training Program aims to respond to the challenges and demands in the life and ministry of the clergy and religious sisters. Thus, to appropriate and respond adequately to this, the following are set as objectives of the training program:
1. To provide opportunity and guidance for the participants to discern their call, giftedness, and disposition proper to the ministry of priests/ sisters.
2. To provide opportunity and guidance to personal growth in all (physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual) areas of human life through self-awareness, acceptance, and transformation.
3. To form scholar-practitioners with a high level of competence and professionalism in their work of helping others and ethical practices.
4. To develop updated knowledge and effective skills in the helping professions through lectures, writing integration papers and reflections, research and reporting, group work and discussions, supervised practicum, and mentoring.
5. To provide community living and teamwork through group processing and mutual self-disclosure, prayers, leisure, and recreation.
Graduates of the Course Training Program are expected to be professional ministers to fellow priests and religious sisters both in their regular and special formational needs, either as members of the Potter’s Formation Center or as priest/sister-formators in their respective dioceses or religious congregations.