Companioning Booklet
Through the years, a couple of versions of a “Companioning Booklet” were developed in order to help promised Associates reflect upon the keeping of their promises and become accountable to at least one other “companion” in her/his community. Three versions of the Booklet are available below:
[1] The 2002 version of the Companioning Booklet, which was initially developed in 1998, is available to be printed and made into a booklet. Printing in 2 steps will yield a 2-sided copy, which can then be folded in half, creating the “booklet.” The cover (outside) pages include a title page and a copy of the Suscipe on the back cover.
Instructions Step 1: Print 3 pages of the Booklet. [By clicking on the previous word "Booklet" the document pages will emerge. print those.]
Instructions Step 2: Carefully insert those printed pages back into your printer, positioning them so that the other side of the page will now be printed. This entails attention to a couple of details: (a) sequence of pages ~ the sequence must be that the page with pages 1 and 12 of the Booklet will be the first to now print, followed by pages 10 and 3, then pages 8 and 5. In other words, they must print in the same sequence as the first set. (b) Depending upon how your printer feeds paper, you will need to position either the left or right hand edge of the page down, so that the “tops” of the pages will be the same on both sides of the page. (Probably feed the left–when looking at the previously printed pages–down. A 4th page will print–which is the “cover page”. When the pages are loaded into your printer, click on Booklet step 2, and then print.
[2] Another version of the Companioning Booklet was drafted by the “next steps” task force which looked at the meaning of our promises. While never reaching consensus among the “promised” Associates in 2004-2005, this Description of Promises also includes questions for reflection about one’s promises and information about “companioning”.
[3] In Spring 2009, the 2002 Booklet was modified for use in the Ramos Community. This Companioning Booklet is also available for printing.
A separate process–designed to be helpful for an Ignatian Associate to bring other community members into her/his personal discernment about life choices such as ministries, for example, is described as “Bin Companionship“.