Teaching and training events
I enjoyed the opportunity to meet with 22 facilitators of Focus on Ministry retreats in Sydney on Monday. I love the Telford site at Port Hacking, sunny and relaxing looking out over the water. This year we covered Pastoral Review Processes, Understanding Church systems, Empowering Leadership and some new research on Burnout.
All the files have been updated and placed in our group dropbox.
Have a look at this article from the Alban weekly – work life balance for clergy.
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.
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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I enjoyed teaching conflict management and resolution skills to Priests in Charge for the Diocese of Melbourne over three days this week. We covered a number of frameworks for understanding conflict and looked at some practical processes for resolution in both interpersonal and parish processes. All the notes and handouts have been added to the EPIC dropbox.