Tim Dyer – The Johnmark Extension
Teaching and training events
Tim enjoyed a training residential with the two Presbyterian church consultancy teams operational in New South Wales. The new combined team covered training in congregational recovery, church health and self care for consultants. Notes for the training sessions are being posted to a new group site.
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Workshop 5 in our church consulting and coaching training course was held at the churches of christ centre in Fairfield on Tuesday. We covered a range of topics including church health and congregational recovery processes.
The task of conducting a thoughtful and well facilitated review of a minister is often one tinged with anxiety not only for the minister and his/her spouse but also for the reviewers and the congregation. This is usually due to the many stories doing the rounds of poor processes, ministers and congregations getting badly hurt, issues not being dealt with and pastors resigning or being dismissed rather than being empowered to grow in leadership. Over the years, John Mark Ministries has worked with churches as they have reviewed their pastors and out of this experience has developed some tools and resources to assist. Continue reading “Pastoral Reviews”
Even with three days (October 21-23) to cover the dynamics of conflict in Christian communities, Tim still had issues on the whiteboard to discuss and explore with Anglican clergy in Melbourne this week. The training was designed to provide both frameworks and practical strategies for dealing with the unique features of conflict in the church context. Continue reading “EPIC Conference”
Tim spent Wednesday 17 September teaching at the 2008 Arrow Leadership Conference in Melbourne. The main topic was conflict within Christian communities. Three sessions covered preparing for conflict, understanding personal conflict styles and managing conflict.