I always enjoy completing a training program and seeing a group of consultants recognised for their contribution to church health. Today the second team of consultants, male and female, clergy and lay, for the Victorian and Tasmanian conference of the Churches of Christ were accredited following three years of training. They are already out and about working with churches, we reviewed three live consultancies today and discussed an up and coming consultancy for the new year. Thanks to Robyn Millership, Peter Broadbent and Michael Vanderee for their assistance with training. After 6 years of training, I will now be stepping back to supervise and support the training group and the above team will lead the church health consultancy process forward from here for the Churches of Christ.
Facilitation Skills Workshop–Churches of Christ Vic Tas–Church Consultants Training
It was good to share the day with church consultants from both Teams A and B with the Churches of Christ Conference of Vic Tas. We looked at facilitation techniques and skills for working in churches and debriefed a number of current consultancies. Enjoyed our second last day of this training program.
All the notes are now in the course dropbox.
Final Training Workshop–Church Consultancy Training Baptist Churches of NSW and ACT
3 years of training were completed today for the fifth consultancy team for Baptist Churches in NSW and ACT. Congratulations to Frank, Lois, Viv, Karen, Jo-anne, Steve, Glenn, Ian, June, Russell and Rod. In the last workshop we looked at the relation of the church and kingdom, some final principles of consulting, teamwork and the emotional intelligence framework. Notes are in the dropbox folder.
Churches of Christ Conference Vic Tas Church Health Consultancy Team Training Workshop 10
On Tuesday the Churches of Christ Vic Tas church health consultancy team explored dimensions of local church and leadership vision. Michael anchored our reflection theologically helping us reflect on the task of listening to God for direction. We looked a several facilitation techniques for uncovering or surfacing vision and values. Michelle, one of our team members, shared something of her experience consulting in the area of strategic planning.
Notes have all been uploaded into our dropbox account.
Baptist Union of NSW and ACT – Church Consultancy Training Workshop 10
For the last workshop in our introduction to the areas of specialisation in Church Consultancy, we looked at Vision and Strategic Planning consultancies. Some time was spent on understanding the theology and spirituality of listening to God in the context of visioning. We explored processes of assisting churches to surface their vision and to engage in strategic planning processes. As usual notes are our DropBox. A highlight of the day was hearing Rev Ian Duncum outline his findings from his D.Min. research on the effectiveness of this model of consultancy on 10 Baptist Churches in NSW.