This workshop, uses the two lenses of conflict drivers and conflict paradoxes, and considers seemingly intractable conflicts and their transformation. Questions for consideration include the nature of intractability, de-escalation strategies, transforming intractable conflicts and engaging emotions. This workshop builds on Understanding Conflict: Foundations. It is highly interactive, insightful, engaging and critical for all those who wish …
View course details “Understanding Conflict (Advanced)”
This four-morning workshop is suitable for anyone involved in a leadership role in a congregation, and is not limited to pastoral staff, in fact bringing some key lay leaders may be beneficial to some congregations. Frequently we hear that people resist change. Does this have to be true? Could we find ways of engaging change, …
View course details “Leading the Church Through Transformation, Change and Renewal ONLINE”
An exciting opportunity has been gifted to us – the biennial National Worship Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada. Typically this is a residential conference, but this year is by digital presence only. The conference is a stellar opportunity to meet colleagues across this diverse country, share …
View course details “Anglican Lutheran National Worship Conference: “Disruption & Grace: Learning Edges in Liminal Times””
Are you seeking support and enrichment for your daily prayer life? Join Shalem adjunct staff member Patience Robbins as she guides you through the use of lectio divina, walking meditation, the practice of gratitude, and intercessory prayers. Whether you feel like a beginner or want to deepen a particular prayer practice; whether you want to …
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Free, with Jennifer Chinn, Senior Program Manager, Youth & Community Engagement at Trinity Church Wall Street In these odd times, it’s hard both to move and, at the same time, to find rest. How can we find perspective when our homes have become such busy spaces—our offices, classrooms, churches, and gyms? Join Trinity’s Jennifer Chinn, …
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Led by Kathleen Norris is an award-winning poet and writer. She is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace and Acedia and Me.
Led by Kathleen Norris is an award-winning poet and writer. She is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace and Acedia and Me.
You like to be productive, so you’ve learned to stay busy. It’s nice to feel needed, so you never say “no.” Your job is to care for everyone, so you neglect your own well-being. Until you can’t. Burnout makes it hard to manage much of anything well, and that includes our built-in biases and default …
View course details “Understanding, Exploring, & Managing Bias and Burnout”
The goal of this online weekend workshop is to help us enter more deeply the truth in our hearts and connect more profoundly with the divine Presence in ourselves and in all of life. We will explore a number of practices to help us do so, including discernment exercises, supportive listening, evoking questions, focusing on …
View course details “Going Deeper Together”
Conflict within churches can involve complex dynamics and highly-charged emotions, leaving those involved with deep hurt and pain. Often people from all “sides” of the conflict look to their pastors and lay leaders for assistance in helping to resolve these tensions. Being an “insider third party” – that is knowing the parties involved while seeking …
View course details “Informal Coaching and Mediation Skills for Church Leaders ONLINE”
