Written by timdyer on July 25, 2014
ABC’s of Church Conflict
Church ConflictOne of the helpful definitions of conflict () points out that there are always be three elements which interact when conflict gets inflamed and becomes damaging.
Written by timdyer on July 22, 2014
Website woes
Church ConflictHi friends, My apologies to many who were trying to access materials over the weekend. My four wordpress websites suffered a cyber attack on Friday last week which disabled all sites and closed off even my own access. I had to take each of them down yesterday and rebuild them from scratch. Thanks for your
Written by timdyer on July 21, 2014
Managing Parish Conflict–Diocese of Melbourne Clergy Conference 2014
Church Conflict
It was good to catch up with friends in Melbourne this morning for a workshop at this year’s clergy conference. I was given the topic of Parish Conflict – a bit of a regular with me these days.
Please read more to get access to the links to the powerpoint presentation and also the resources I referred to in the presentation. A link has also been provided to the article on Conflict resolution within an Asian context.
Written by timdyer on July 20, 2014
10 reasons churches should be the experts in conflict resolution
Church ConflictAs I work around church communities, it is quite confronting to recognise that churches are naturally conflict prone. We should be leaders within our communities, knowing and demonstrating reconciliation practices and then ministering these to families and community organisations. Instead we spend a lot of time denying and suppressing our own conflict and never really get good at dealing with it. So we end up being a conflict prone community which is also conflict averse. Here is why we need to be experts.
Written by timdyer on July 12, 2014
Anglican Diocese of Brisbane–Diocesan Leadership Team Training in Conflict Management
Training
I am enjoying a few days in Brisbane this week working with the leadership team of the Diocese of Brisbane. The venue is St Francis’s Theological College. A great place to be able to work for three days.
Links to the notes for each day’s sessions are following: