VFCAP's learning objectives:

• Ground yourself in our Vincentian roots

• Understand our Vincentian tradition of collaboration

• See its richness as lived out by all branches of the Vincentian Family

• Realize our potential to help people & communities emerge from poverty

• Discipline yourself to practice contemplation in your daily life

• See that collaboration & Systemic Change are ongoing processes of conversion

• Identify and call forth your personal gifts as well as the gifts of others

• Choose to act collaboratively

• Build relationships within the Vincentian Family, as well as beyond it

• Motivate and invite others to collaborate

• Create new opportunities for Systemic Change