MA Gold Program for Ridley College

I thoroughly enjoyed being back at Yarra Valley Conference Centre for another subject in Ridley’s MA program.  This time we spent 26 hours on Church Conflict.  Great to explore Biblical passages, theories of conflict and some case studies with the MA students this year. 

All notes should now be updated in our dropbox. 

Safe as Churches VI–Conflict Workshop

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.

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Arrow Leadership 11 – Conflict Management in Christian Communities

 

 

 

 

 

 

I enjoy my opportunities to teach in the Arrow Leadership program.  Always good to hang out with a choice collection of Bulls, Turtles, Koalas, classic Owls and this year a lone Turtle.

I have added some material from today’s discussions to what was linked via this post this morning.  All the best as you prepare for action.

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Anglican Diocese of Gippsland–Clergy Support and Wellbeing Day Traralgon

Another enjoyable day catching up with the clergy team in the Diocese of Gippsland.  This year our theme was dealing with the dynamics of conflict in parish communities and looking at strategies for early intervention.   We brainstormed conflict dynamics in church communities, looked at styles and modes of conflict, church systems, a conflict process and conflict management for leaders.


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