KAIROS COURSES September 28-October 2, 2015 Discerning God’s Mission: Trust-building and Collaborative Leadership for Collective Insight (Group Week at Luther) Seminary Leadership For complete details, see the course listing for online work beginning June 15, 2015. Contact Hours: 60 Seminar Leader: Christopher E. Hagen is experienced and skilled in parish and interim ministry, having served …
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KAIROS COURSES September 9, 2015 Webcast Working Preacher Lectionary Study—Ordinary 27-34 Preaching Dig into the Sunday readings for upcoming seasons with one of Luther Seminary’s favorite Bible instructors. Lectures and group discussion will fill you with theological insights and preaching ideas for the months ahead. To attend via webcast you will need a high-speed Internet …
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KAIROS COURSES September 8, October 13 and November 10, 2015 Webcast:Films and Faith-Exploring Christianity through Visual Media (Series) Faith and Culture Film is one of the most important media of our day. The combination of dialogue, images and music has the ability to affect our faith and worldview in powerful, visceral and even subconscious ways. …
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KAIROS COURSES September 8, 2015 Webcast: Films and Faith-Exploring Christianity through Visual Media Faith and Culture Film is one of the most important media of our day. The combination of dialogue, images and music has the ability to affect our faith and worldview in powerful, visceral and even subconscious ways. This course looks at three …
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KAIROS COURSES August 25-26, 2015 Stepping Up to Staffing and Supervision of Church Staff Leadership Are you stepping into unfamiliar territory where you must supervise others, or have you been supervising others for some time without a clear understanding of what you are doing? Supervision, especially in a faith-based environment, requires learning new skills—probably skills …
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KAIOS COURSES August 12-14, 2015 Leading through Coaching Leadership In this course participants will learn the basic principles of coaching and how these principles provide a solid foundation for effective compassionate leadership. While there are many dimensions to leadership, none is more important than the relationships the leader has with colleagues and volunteers. As a …
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KAIROS COURSES August 3-7, 2015 Transforming Conflict from the Inside Out: Compassionate Communication in the Church Congregational Care In this intensive workshop, participants will learn the skills of compassionate communication (also called nonviolent communication) as means of connecting to God, self, and others in the midst of interpersonal conflict. A past participant in the course said …
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KAIROS COURSES July 29-31, 2015 Rethinking Confirmation: Signs of Life in Times of Change Confirmation The church’s call to help young Christians grow as disciples of Jesus Christ does not change, but our cultural and social realities do. These shifts require us to rethink some of our inherited strategies and practices for nurturing faith. (e.g., …
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KAIROS COURSES July 13-15, 2015 New Visions for the Long Pastorate Leadership Research conducted by Roy Oswald while a senior consultant with the Alban Institute indicated that there are some real challenges to remaining effective within a long pastorate. When in one pastorate for more than seven to nine years, some negative dynamics can begin …
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KAIROS COURSES July 8-9, 2015 Job, the Cross and the Question of Suffering Congregational Care This course will enhance participant’s pastoral care skills by using the book of Job as a lens through which to view loss and pastoral responses to loss. Team-taught by a biblical scholar and pastoral care practitioner and teacher, this course …
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