Quest Cycle Explained
The partnership jointly manages training and consulting cycles in various locations. Training is in a predominantly oral format, where the storying processes to be implemented are modeled, practiced and discussed. OneStory Quest training and consulting cycles begin in March/April and October/November each year.
For Quest cycles, after an initial one-month training session, the subsequent cycle of training and mentoring involves “just in time” training interspersed with periods of observation, research and implementation of the OneStory project. See visual tour for the structure of this two-year period of training. Major training events and spiritual retreats occur at each sixth-month interval, with further shorter training sessions or on-site consultations at the midpoint between each of the major six-month events. With this structure, the teams have a significant face-to-face contact with mentors, trainers, and other participants in OneStory projects every three months.
Each of the five agencies managing the OneStory partnership provides aspects of training or consulting in these cycles. For this training each partner works from competencies developed for the trainees and trainers in their areas of responsibility.
Quest team members may be asked to begin assisting with training at their 18- and 24-month sessions.
For each regional training and consulting cycle there is a regional coordinator who works in coordination with his or her agency’s representative on the OneStory Executive Team and with the OneStory coordinator for training. This coordinator staffs the sessions with trainers who meet OneStory competencies, and develops regional trainers with these competencies.