FIELD WORK REQUIREMENTS - UPDATED 12/08

[Vicki L. Hall]

Hi, friends, this is Vicki Hall, your IMN fieldwork faculty supervisor.

Welcome to our online community of long distance IMN participants, who are working toward completing the Field Work portion of their IMN certification process.

As your supervisor, I monitor our online, e-mail "conversations," but the majority of the time we are all talking together. We travel through this experience as a group, communicating with each other, supporting each other, and directing questions and feedback to each other.

Because folk are usually most interested in the specifics of what’s “needful,” let me review.

1. AN ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY RELATED TO YOUR
FIELD WORK PROJECT TO BE POSTED ON THE MESSAGE BOARD

Computer Skills:

The first requirement is that you produce an online bibliography related to your fieldwork project. In other words, you will produce a bibliography of online resources that are available to assist the research you're conducting.

Please review the specific requirements in the manual.

May I also suggest you economize your time. That is, if I were you, I would first think through my field work project, then do online research of bibliographic resources that supports the project, and have my ILE spring from my fieldwork project.

2. FIELDWORK PROJECT TO BE POSTED ON THE MESSAGE BOARD

There’s a lot of room here for you to be both creative and practical. What I’m looking for is that your project has something to do with ministry and change. It does not have to relate specifically to intentional interim ministry. It does not have to be completed in a congregation you're serving as either the settled or interim minister/lay leader (though it can be). It can be a one-day workshop consultation or a six-week bible study. It can be entering a new ministry or ending one. For many more ideas please look at the projects that have been proposed and summarized on the Message Board. As long as it's about ministry and change I haven't turned an idea down yet!

3. INTEGRATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE (ILE)
DO NOT POST ON MESSAGE BOARD - SEND TO ME VIA EMAIL

You have the manual, which does a super job of describing the format and content; I trust that your 5-day faculty reviewed all of this material and that you have a solid place from which to start. I ask you to remember to keep the categories just as they are and to make sure it all fits into a one-page format (with type no smaller than 10-point).

Generally speaking, your ILE will spring from your FW Project, you’ll send me your first draft, and I’ll ask for revisions. Eventually, we’ll agree on a final draft and that’s what we'll review on a 3-way teleconference.

Those are the three requirements you need to fulfill before you can graduate.

Here are few other comments:

• New students, as they graduate from their 5-day, will join our community. Please welcome them.

• As soon as 2 participants have completed the on-line bibliography, the field work summary, and the ILE (posting the first two to the Message Board and reviewing the ILE with me via email) we'll convene a 90-minute teleconference with Copper Conferencing, during which each participant will present their ILE in a 45-minute block.

• Your participation in that event will complete the IMN requirements for your training as an intentional interim minister.

• The IMN expects that you will complete all of the above requirements, including the f2f meeting, within one year of your 3-day, but there is grace in the system!

• There may be times when you need to talk with me by phone. If you would like my number, please email me at [e-mail] and I'll send it to you.

So, to our new folk, let's get started! To everyone else, it’s good to have you, please stay in touch.

Peace,
Vicki

[ghanberry]

Vicki, I finished the 5-day course in Oct., 2006. I will be on sabbatical this coming summer. In Sept., I return to my church for a 10-month period and then retire June 30, 2008. After a couple months off in the summer of 2008, I then want to work in some selective intentional interim positions. I am thinking of designing an asset mapping project at my current church to be completed after Easter. How extensive does an asset mapping project need to be? in terms of the number of sessions? People?, etc. I would like to complete the FW by the end of the summer of 2007. A consultant will conduct a feasibility study re. a capital campaign later this month. We will likely run the campaign in the fall. The consultant feels I should consider doing the asset mapping activities in ways that will keep the campaign interviews in the feasibility study distinguishable from the outcomes of the asset mapping plans. Any ideas? Gerry Hanberry

[Vicki L. Hall]

ghanberry said:

Vicki, I finished the 5-day course in Oct., 2006. I will be on sabbatical this coming summer. In Sept., I return to my church for a 10-month period and then retire June 30, 2008. After a couple months off in the summer of 2008, I then want to work in some selective intentional interim positions. I am thinking of designing an asset mapping project at my current church to be completed after Easter. How extensive does an asset mapping project need to be? in terms of the number of sessions? People?, etc. I would like to complete the FW by the end of the summer of 2007. A consultant will conduct a feasibility study re. a capital campaign later this month. We will likely run the campaign in the fall. The consultant feels I should consider doing the asset mapping activities in ways that will keep the campaign interviews in the feasibility study distinguishable from the outcomes of the asset mapping plans. Any ideas? Gerry Hanberry

Great question, Gerry.

First, the basic Asset Mapping exercise need be no longer than one 3.5 hour session. At the end of a very well-framed, step-by-step process, the congregation will have a very good idea of where their energy for ministry really lies. If you'd like, let me know, and I can send you power point slides which take you through the entire session.

As to the question of avoiding certain topics to retain the integrity of other processes happening in parallel, for example the interviews inquiring as to the feasibility of a capital campaign, I wouldn't worry. The results of asset mapping happen at such a "mega" level of organizational consciousness that if the campaign is truly worth doing the results of the asset mapping session will only lend support.

[Bob Mitchell]

Viki,

Thank you for posting my Bibliography and Proposal. I have posted replies to messages received.
I also sent you my ILE, (which, incidentally, you commented back to me was very good). However, I did not find it on the board.
Please advise.

Shalom!
Bob Mitchell

[Vicki L. Hall]

Hi, Bob, yes - if you review your initial introductory to FW letter you'll see that we don't usually post our ILES, instead you send them to me and we review them together. Some have posted them anyway and that's fine.

In any event, you are now ready for a f2f.

We have one set up for next Monday and might have another in June.

[revdrelainemccoy]

I have been working on the substance of my project and have completed the proposed and implementation phases and am now ready to conduct the analysis. I also have prepared a fairly extensive bibliography. Because I have only just discovered this board I am unclear about how or whether to 'report' my project's progress on this site. Vicki, can you give me direction re: the next step for me to take.

[Somehow this helpful board haseluded me...]

Thanks for whatever assistance can be offered.

God's peace,

Elaine+

[bblock]

I am ready to start completing my Fieldwork.

[Vicki Hall]

Brent, that's great, and I just sent you a couple of emails. You were originally assigned to another faculty member, but if it's OK with you to stick with me it's OK with the powers that be. Email me back so that I'm sure, but having read this thread you'll have a very good idea of how to get started.

In brief:

First, you have no need for my approval of your Field Work project - as long as it's about change and ministry you're good to go!

With your project in mind, go ahead and put together a brief bibliography from online resources and post it on the Message Board. Step one, complete!

After your project is complete, write up a brief summary of the experience and post that as your project on the Message Board. Step two, complete!

Finally, from your field work project take an experience that threw you off during the sessions and write it up using the ILE format. Don't post it on the Message Board - instead, send it to me for review and then we'll move on to the teleconference ASAP.

Peace
Vicki

[bblock]

Thanks Vicki, I appreciate all your help.

[revdrelainemccoy]

Viki

I have my on-line bibliography/resource guide and project description ready to post on-line.

I also will have my completed project report ready to submit by mid-week next week. I'm not clear as to how to submit the 14pp. "Bibliography/Resource Guide" or the one page project decsription on this site. Can you advise?

EMcC+

[Vicki L. Hall]

Ahhhhh.... lol..... 14 pages, huh?


Well, how about you trim it down to the best of the best and post one page of it here?

BTW - just for my own edification, please email me the whole list via an attachment. I'd love to have it.

Peace,
Vicki

[mbthorpe]

Hi, Vicki-
Sorry it took me a while to get onto the message board - got slammed with some other stuff. Insofar as the project is concerned, I've crafted a four-week adult ed program on conflict - my parish is in transition right now, albeit without a true interim for a whole bunch of reason over which I have no control, which makes me particularly grateful for the 5-day training. As often happens in a vacuum of power, some tensions arose amongst parishioners, and it seemed apt to talk about the nature of conflict, Christian response to it, and learning from and moving beyond it. I can get you an online biblio by the end of the week if it sounds to you like an appropriate topic for the project portion of the field work. Insofar as the ILE is concerned, there were some interesting responses to the class. More areas of conflict surfaced (which I view as a good thing) and I had to function in a consultative role to help folks process it and attempt to use some of the techniques we had discussed. For a mere seminarian without a formal interim role, it was indeed a learning experience for me, and there were some specific challenges and choices that I made, and that I learned from. Does this sound like the sort of thing that would follow the rubrics?

Many thanks!

[Vicki L. Hall]

Sorry, for the delay in responding - this is all sounds interesting, can't wait to read it!

Peace,
Viki

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