Leadership Coaching is an excellent way to help leaders to be at their best, to manage tough conversations, to think strategically and perhaps most importantly, to enhance their personal emotional intelligence. This workshop is designed for leadership coaches – those who come alongside leaders to encourage and support their growth. Attention will be given to …
View course details “Skills for Coaching Leaders: Conflict Coaching Advanced”

Ordained leaders develop throughout their lives. Over time, they hone clearer insights, abilities, skills, and habits, but they also run the risk of plateauing, stagnating and resorting to “auto-pilot.” Typical continuing education programs focus on short-term bursts of new learning, and while inspiring, do not yield long-term growth. Priests need spaces where they can focus on …
View course details “Thriving in Ministry Program”

What to expect? Each week during the online training sessions you can expect to invest an average of 5 hrs per week in developing this skill.  This breaks down to 2 hours for the online training, approximately 1.5 hours completing the required readings, and 1.5 hours engaging with your peer coaching partner via Zoom or …
View course details “Transformational Coaching”

What to expect? Each week during the online training sessions you can expect to invest an average of 5 hrs per week in developing this skill.  This breaks down to 2 hours for the online training, approximately 1.5 hours completing the required readings, and 1.5 hours engaging with your peer coaching partner via Zoom or …
View course details “Transformational Coaching Training”

This event is only for Gathering of Leaders Participants and those who have received an invitation to join. Please login to view or contact our Exec. Dir. Haley Bankey for additional information on how you might join the Gathering of Leaders. We also welcome inquiries for all hope-filled, innovative, Episcopal leaders.  

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Transformational Coaching is a 9-week online experience that equips you with coaching skills and practices while giving you transformational tools so you can better coach and lead from your own transformation. Transformational Coaching started in 2016. Today 300 ministry, business, and church leaders from 7 denominations across Canada, US, Australia, and the UK have participated …
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Gain the skills you need to supervise, delegate, and empower the people you work with. Preaching? Check. Teaching? Absolutely. Visiting the sick and working to make your community better? Yes, please. All of that may come naturally compared to supervising other people. If you feel like your education prepared you for everything but this critical …
View course details “Stepping Up to Supervision”

An opportunity to read and discuss influential ministry texts in community online. About this event This event is brought to you by the department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary There are many texts related to ministry that can challenge and make us better. It can be difficult to prioritize reading these books with …
View course details “Formation Fundamentals Book Group (Four series)”

Facilitator: Marg Van Herk-Paradis There is no greater satisfaction than to see another person flourish and to know that one’s presence has helped a person come to this place. While conflict can cause people to struggle, a conflict coach partners with those in a conflict, empowering them to be at their best, to engage their …
View course details “Conflict Coaching Skills–ONLINE”