Reviving Don BoscoÕs Oratory. Salesian Youth Ministry, Leadership and Innovative Project Management

Download or read book Reviving Don BoscoÕs Oratory. Salesian Youth Ministry, Leadership and Innovative Project Management written by Michal Vojt‡_ and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book starts with the development of Salesian youth ministry in the post-Vatican II period. The change from a faithful and repetitive education towards a critical and future-centered approach brought multiple risks. Focusing on organizational aspects, we analyze the underlying theories and their anthropological paradigms, especially Management by Objectives. Then we turn back to the original and permanent criterion for any renewal - the experience of Don Bosco in the Valdocco Oratory. His leadership and management qualities, recent leadership concepts, solid bases of the Salesian Youth Ministry and creative experiments are sewn creatively together in an innovative proposal: 1. Creation of an integral anthropological framework; 2. Development of a set of virtues-qualities at the level of action mentality, shared leadership and operative management; 3. Proposal of a transformational project cycle that merges planning, community building and discernment.