On Giving and Receiving Feedback on Liturgical Leadership

dear colleagues.

This is a short Prezi on the giving and receiving

of feedback during our liturgical leadership for this semester.

First things first is the disposition with which we come

to this feedback, and that is that I want us

to see it as a gift that here during seminary,

you have a brave space in which you get thio,

give each other feedback and receive feedback so that we,

when we graduate from this place, can be the liturgical

leaders that we want to be in the communities that

we will serve.

And so let's presume that were not yet where we

want to be in the years when we graduate and

then accept the call, but that we want to grow

and change well.

Then growth and change are supported by receiving feedback that

lets us know what's going well for us and feedback

that lets us know what we might want to grow

in change.

Shift into the future.

And so I'd like you to get yourself into a

position where you hunger for this kind of feedback, where

you really want feedback and where you might feel like

you had been cut short.

If you didn't get some critical feedback.

I hope that we come to a spot where we

want critical feedback.

We don't want to goto our colleagues and then just

have them say Nice job that would feel a little

vacuous and empty because we're hungering to become something that

we aren't yet.

We're hungering to become the best liturgical leaders that we

can be more pretty sure that there's some improvement that

we can make.

So please get in a spot where you would like

to receive comments that tell you where you could grow.

And then as we think about giving feedback, think about

how you can give feedback that also supports that style

of growth, that kind of growth that we're hungering for

Well, as we give that feedback, then there I'm going

to provide you with a grid, and I want you

to give feedback to your colleagues or be prepared to

give feedback to your colleagues in at least six areas.

One of them is is Flo.

So in the liturgy that your colleague lead, how did

the liturgy flow?

One portion of it to the next?

The next is coherent.

So how did this thing hold together.

You could give your colleague some feedback, then about the

whole scope of the thing on and how it seemed

to be an entirety.

Ah, whole.

Now that could be a little bit hard with some

of our liturgies that are long and a student chose

to only do 10 minutes on you don't see actually

the whole But then you could say, How did those

10 minutes hold together?

Yeah. The next thing we want to focus on is

content. So there are certain things that this liturgy communicated

and did.

And then you want to give your feedback around that

content of the liturgy and how it was communicated.

Often the content of the liturgy is that we're doing

is set.

And so it's not necessarily that you're replying to your

colleague on the content per se, but on how that

content got communicated.

The fourth area of feedback is pastoral presence.

Now, please know that when I say pastoral presence, it's

an adjective.

It doesn't mean ah person ordained Thio, Word and Sacrament

Ministry. We celebrate that we have m A students and

empty of students in our class and, um, and the

the ordination tracks are multiple, and so for deacons.

For pastors alike, there is pastoral presence.

And so I want you to reflect with your colleague

on how their liturgical presence may have distracted or supported

ET cetera, others ability to worship.

The fifth thing is theology.

How I know that we may be a different places

in our journey of learning theology and some of us

toward the outset.

And yet it's always something that in liturgy is we

want to be aware off.

So please do give your colleagues feedback on how their

leadership again, not just the content that was already perhaps

set. But how did their leadership of the ritual relate

to sound theology?

She and finally, the other category.

You know, I'm aware that not all of these things

may have fit into the first five.

So what else did you notice that would be helpful

for the leader to know or helpful for the class

to learn from?

Finally, just a preview.

This is the colleague feedback grid that you'll be receiving

so that you can keep track of providing feedback for

your colleagues in all of these categories.

Now, I'm not saying that you have tow write this

out. You could You could write it out and send

it to your colleague.

You don't have thio Just want you to have thought

through these categories before the discussion with your colleague on

their leadership.

On Giving and Receiving Feedback on Liturgical Leadership

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