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Provocative Hope
Summary: This 14-week group will develop and practice key collaborative leadership skills to more fullyarticulate and implement the vision and mission of the church. Collaborative leadership designed to reclaimGod’s dream for who the church is intended to be and what disciples are intended to do. Using appreciativeinquiry, participants will strengthen the vision oriented collaborative capacity …
Leading with Agility
Focus of Peer Learning Group: In our challenging world, understanding, practicing, and expanding our leadership agility helps us to maximize our skills and abilities for greater fruitfulness and resilience in our ministry context. This peer learning cohort is designed to offer opportunity for support, reflective conversation and sharing of ideas and applications. Information: The cohort will use …
Spiritual Disciplines: Foundation for Resilient Ministry
Focus of Peer Learning Group: “How is it with your soul? John Wesley’s historic question to clergy of any time period might generate diverse answers: “fulfilled, drained, lacking, on most days good, growing, in need . . .” Too often clergy are so busy tending to the souls of others that their own spiritual lives …
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Strengthening Resilience
The only thing we can control is from the skin in. A powerful thought in times of great challenge. Are you in a place of wondering how to lead in a time when from one minute to the next you could be faced with something that moves from hope to sorrow, from joy to sadness …
Creating a Culture of Adaptive Discipleship
Summary: Culture is formed by the sharing of common stories that shape the language, understanding, attitudes, structure, and processes that bond a group of people together across generations. This course is designed to help develop leaders in your church who use an Appreciative Inquiry process to continuously refine the culture of your church so that …
Discernment and Decisions: Choosing Wisely
Course Overview: Clergy are called to lead God’s people in diverse contexts with unique decisions. How do we discern the next right step? In this peer learning cohort we will explore the role of spiritual discernment in decision making and learn new decision-making skills for our ministry toolbox that might be applied to our life …