Related Background

• Worked with and directed the Counseling Service for Religious in the Archdiocese of St. Louis (1979-89)
  

• Served as postulant director for her province (1990-93)
  

• Served on her provincial council (1993-2001)
  

• Elected national secretary for LCWR (1998-2001)
  

• Served as Executive Director for LCWR (2002-2008)
  

• Province Director of Communications (2009-2010)
  

• Facilitating leadership teams and congregational gatherings (2010 to the present)
  

Education

• MA in American Studies (Fairfield University)
  

• MSW in Clinical Social Work (St. Louis University)
  

• Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Formation (Washington        Theological Union)
  

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Facilitation Style

A major responsibility of leadership today is to convene conversations around questions that matter.  Carole's approach to facilitating groups both small and large is to create an environment that is safe and respectful within which critical questions can be explored at deeper and deeper levels.

For congregational gatherings, assemblies and chapters, Carole's preferred facilitation approach is to use communal discernment.

This style of facilitation and using communal discernment helps groups to:

• Name and build on individual and group strength
  

• Move towards expanded common ground and consensus
  

• Discern, embrace and implement a preferred future together
  

For further information about "conversations that matter..."

• Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening and Creating New Realities by Adam Kahane with a forward by Peter Senge
  

• The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter by Juanita Brown and David Issacs with a foreward by Margaret Wheatly
  

• Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer
  

• The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace edited by R. Brian Stanfield
  

• Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
  

Carole Shinnick, SSND is a School Sister of Notre Dame who has served in leadership roles within her congregation and in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)..