About Us

Our Mission Statement

The mission of the Center for Ignatian Belonging (CIB) is to create more opportunities for sustained, intentional encounters among Xavier faculty and staff.

By intentional encounters, we mean purposefully creating spaces and experiences in which faculty and staff across differences can get to know one another more deeply, listen to and learn from one another, build trust, and develop supporting relationships that might not otherwise emerge through ordinary university life. These encounters will not require us to erase our differences or agree with one another on every issue. Instead, they will invite us to become better at being in relationships across differences.

This is at the heart of what we mean by Ignatian Belonging: helping people find a place at the table, while helping all of us learn how to remain in relationship once we are there.