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Ongoing formation is the continuous growth and learning process for each person. It can consist of formal programs such as workshops, webinars, and retreats, as well as readings, videos, and other resources.
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Artificial Intelligence
New Social and Ethical Challenges and Opportunities
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Understanding AI: What It Is and Why It's Important
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The Human and the Machine: Anthropological Questions
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The Social Impacts of Relational AI
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Educating in the Age of AI
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AI and Ethical Questions: The Impact on Health Care
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Environmental Impact of AI: Hidden Costs and Inequalities
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The Future of AI: Marvel, Menace, and Mystery
This year’s program features a virtual webinar series on Artificial Intelligence:
Emerging Social and Ethical Opportunities and Challenges,
along with four short courses on a variety of subjects.
All sessions are led by distinguished scholars and delivered online.
The following topics are covered:
Building New Ways of Religious Life
In their wisdom-filled book, “Conversations at the Well: Emerging Religious Life in the 21st-Century Global World: Collaboration, Networking, and Intercultural Living,” Sisters Jung Eun Sophia Park, SNJM and Teresa Maya, CCVI explore the liminal and emerging spaces opening up to religious life today. Their contributions are a deepening reflection on and response to this period of change, transition and transformation.
RFC invites those wishing to take up these themes and discernment more intentionally to join us for the fall series of Ongoing Formation Circles. Utilizing topics drawn from “Conversations at the Well,” and focused on community living, the Circles will include monthly input from Sophia and focused small group discussion.
Ongoing Formation Circles: Fall 2025 Series Building New Ways of Religious Life
We sense that God calls us to live a new way of religious life, which is deeply rooted in God's invitation to deepen love for the world through our consecrated life and living fully in community. It is imperative to converse with one another for our vocation. In these conversation circles, we will share insights on some of the aspects of community living as religious, the three vows, and leadership that we all are invited to, regardless of our ministries.
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Session One A New Way of Religious Life in the 21st Century
Thursday, September 18, 2025 from 1 to 2:30 pm CT
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Session Two New Understanding of Three Vows
Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 1 to 2:30 pm
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Session Three Virtues of Leadership
Thursday, November 20, 2025 from 1 to 2:30 pm CT
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Registration deadline: September 8, 2025
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