10 commandments of the art of accompaniment:
- Foster a closeness that awakens trust
- Pay attention to your intuition to discover veiled expectation and requests for help, often not clearly expressed
- Be a credible witness through your own coherence of life, joy, and self-giving
- Be flexible with time and always be available to listen
- Respect him in who the Grace of an Almighty God manifests itself and from who a free response is expected
- Clarity in exposing the demands of a vocation without ambiguities
- Patience in order not to pressure or hurry the other in his process which may be slow
- To go out and search to facilitate encounter without harassing
- To console him in challenging moments
- Pray to obtain His favor the Grace of the vocation and enlighten his discernment
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