Safe as Churches VI–Conflict Workshop – Tim Dyer

I enjoyed being in Sydney this week from Wednesday to Friday for Safe as Churches VI. It was a privilege to hear Rev Dr Marie Fortune share her reflections on Abuse, Boundaries and Institutional Responses and to hear about progress with the Royal Commission.

The conflict workshop gave a simple introduction to congregational tension especially as experienced in recovery or abuse allegation environments. The presentation and a range of documents are linked to the remainder of this post. I will update a couple of these as I process some mindmaps we created at the conference.

The following notes are linked to a web server.

Conflict Presentation

Conflict in Christian environments

Four sources of pastoral power

Levels of conflict – descriptions and facilitation responses

Relational Reconciliation – Preparing an apology

Simple grievance process for congregational level issues

Covenant commitments for Christians in time of tension

Welcome

Welcome to ‘the johnmark extension’, my current primary website. If you have attended a seminar or training day that I have facilitated, the notes and resources should be linked below in my ministry blog.

The ‘johnmark extension’ provides leadership training in a wide range of areas oriented toward the professional learning of pastors and the leaders of Christian and not for profit organisations. See the areas in which I am currently teaching and training
Leadership Development Workshops.

Many of these resources have also been shared on
The Christian Leadership Exchange

Developed out of our mentoring training, the MEQ course, which is offered in a range of formats from ACT accredited through to workshop based short courses, there is a resources site for leaders who mentor others. Check out resources on The Mentor Exchange

Over recent years teaching skills in Conflict Management has become an area in its own right for me. Find conflict resources and training in peacemaking here:
Peace Train