Reimagining Faith Formation Designing Faith Formation Design Principles Design Process Focus on the life tasks, needs, interests, and spiritual and faith journeys of Step 1. Research your target audience and identify needs people in the target audience. Step 2. Build the faith formation network design Target the spiritual and religious diversity in the target audience. Step 3. Generate programming for the faith formation network Develop programming around the essential eight faith-forming processes. Step 4. Design a season of faith formation programming Offer a wide variety of programming to address the diversity of adults’ lives. Step 5. Build the digital platform—a faith formation website Use multiple environments for programming: self-directed, mentored, at Step 6. Design a process for assessing & personalizing learning home, in small groups, in large groups, church-wide, in the community, and Step 7. Test the seasonal plan and web design in the world. Step 8. Launch the faith formation network Design online and digitally enabled strategies into all programming. Step 9. Evaluate the season of programming Incorporate intergenerational programming into faith formation. Step 10. Design the new season of programming Design missional initiatives to reach the spiritual but not religious and the unaffiliated. Innovation Design Process (Stanford School of Design) #1. Developing a Profile of Key Themes from Research Target Audience ______________________________________________________________________ Observation Interviews Groups #2. Developing a Profile & Generating Ideas Target Audience ______________________________________________________________________
Reimagining Faith Formation Designing Faith Formation Design Principles Focus on the life tasks, needs, interests, and spiritual and faith journeys of people in the target audience. Target the spiritual and religious diversity in the target audience. Develop programming around the essential eight faith-forming processes. Offer a wide variety of programming to address the diversity of adults’ lives. Use multiple environments for programming: self-directed, mentored, at home, in small groups, in large groups, church-wide, in the community, and in the world. Design online and digitally enabled strategies into all programming. Incorporate intergenerational programming into faith formation. Design missional initiatives to reach the spiritual but not religious and the unaffiliated. Design Process Step 1. Research your target audience and identify needs Step 2. Build the faith formation network design Step 3. Generate programming for the faith formation network Step 4. Design a season of faith formation programming Step 5. Build the digital platform—a faith formation website Step 6. Design a process for assessing & personalizing learning Step 7. Test the seasonal plan and web design Step 8. Launch the faith formation network Step 9. Evaluate the season of programming Step 10. Design the new season of programming Innovation Design Process (Stanford School of Design) #1. Developing a Profile of Key Themes from Research Target Audience ______________________________________________________________________ Observation Interviews Groups #2. Developing a Profile & Generating Ideas Target Audience ______________________________________________________________________
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