Workshops and resources that integrate Scripture, prayer, and Connect‑Talk® / Positive Christian Dialog (PCD) to strengthen the Domestic Church.
Portiuncula Oratory provides Jesus‑centered workshops and structured resources that can be replicated and expanded as local leaders become equipped.
Core elements include Scripture‑based listening to Jesus, Connect‑Talk® / Positive Christian Dialog (PCD), growth in virtue, and practical tools for becoming His image, the mirror of Jesus Christ.
Formation supports marriage preparation, reconciliation, and flourishing across seasons of life.
Couples learn to experience prayer as shared relationship; Sacramental matrimony becomes shared encounter with Jesus, leading to ongoing conversion and growth in virtue.
Families are strengthened as living cells of the Domestic Church, capable of sustained unity and effective Christian witness.
Particular attention is given to priests and religious living in community who experience relational isolation, conflict, or discouragement.
Formation focuses on fraternal communion, emotional maturity, relational safety, and positive Need fulfillment under a Franciscan rubric of servanthood and loving equality.
Participants learn practical tools to reduce reactivity in community and ministry and strengthen interpersonal connection.
Eliminate negativity by unlearning the “Terrible Ten”
Create relational safety by balancing your assertive and soft sides
Understand P.A.L.L.I.D — T.R.A.P.S., an acronym for how we trigger each other and get stuck in prejudicial images
Understand and implement the attitudes of love
Learn to identify your coping modes and turn to healthier alternatives
Practice relational de‑escalation tools and become aware of how “schemas” distort perception, attribution of meaning and interpretation
Implement Inner dialog awareness skills with attitudes & method
Capture how to forgive and what reconciliation is and isn’t
Learn the simple 7-Step Process of Connect-Talk® with Jesus using the Scripture
Learn the ground rules for effective sharing
Come to understand what ongoing conversion and life in the Spirit requires with an in-depth understanding of the 7 capital sins and the development of replacement virtues
Move from role‑based relating into respectful equality of partnership versus domination and control
Because this is a new initiative, early workshops and groups will be offered selectively and with appropriate screening for fit and readiness.
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