Great to have the day with officers and staff managers of the Tasmanian Salvation Army in Hobart on Thursday. As part of their Leadership and Management Training Program (LaMP) we explored the dynamics of Difficult Conversations.
Parish Health–Conflict Management Team Training Brisbane
Still clear, sunny and warm in Brisbane for another day of training in Conflict Management skills. This time for a team of clergy and lay who may form the basis of a conflict consultancy team. We met at St Francis College for the day to explore the dynamics of conflict and a range of interpersonal…
Equipping Priests in Charge–Brisbane
It has been a pleasant change to have a few days in Brisbane over our Tasmanian winter. Friday was a day of training and equipping for Priests in Charge in the Diocese of Brisbane around the management of Parish Conflict.
SMBC Pastoral Care–Conflict Management in Churches
SMBC I enjoyed the opportunity to be a guest lecturer in the Pastoral Care Skills course at Sydney Missionary and Bible College this evening. We worked through dimensions of church conflict and considered pastoral aspects of understanding and responding to conflict. Presentations and resources we considered this evening follow in this post.
Melbourne CBD Integrated Leadership Group – Arrow Leadership
Great to meet with one of Arrow’s Integrated Leadership Groups in the CBD today to discuss Conflict Competency in Organisations. For notes from the presentation and the Conflict Competency Worksheet, please read on…
ABC’s of Church Conflict
One of the helpful definitions of conflict () points out that there are always be three elements which interact when conflict gets inflamed and becomes damaging.
Website woes
Hi friends, My apologies to many who were trying to access materials over the weekend. My four wordpress websites suffered a cyber attack on Friday last week which disabled all sites and closed off even my own access. I had to take each of them down yesterday and rebuild them from scratch. Thanks for your…
Managing Parish Conflict–Diocese of Melbourne Clergy Conference 2014
It was good to catch up with friends in Melbourne this morning for a workshop at this year’s clergy conference. I was given the topic of Parish Conflict – a bit of a regular with me these days. Please read more to get access to the links to the powerpoint presentation and also the resources…
10 reasons churches should be the experts in conflict resolution
As I work around church communities, it is quite confronting to recognise that churches are naturally conflict prone. We should be leaders within our communities, knowing and demonstrating reconciliation practices and then ministering these to families and community organisations. Instead we spend a lot of time denying and suppressing our own conflict and never really…
Anglican Diocese of Brisbane–Diocesan Leadership Team Training in Conflict Management
I am enjoying a few days in Brisbane this week working with the leadership team of the Diocese of Brisbane. The venue is St Francis’s Theological College. A great place to be able to work for three days. Links to the notes for each day’s sessions are following: