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A sample of our workshop offerings:
- Smoothing the Transition to a New Clergy
- Serving on the Clergy Search Committee
- Traditionalist to Gen X and Beyond: The Multi-Generation Congregation
- Exploring Your Congregation's History:Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future
- Healthy Congregations Workshops
- Conflict Intervention: The BridgeBuilder Process
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Smoothing the Transition to a New Clergy
This six hour workshop guides lay leaders through the process of a clergy change, including:
- Saying farewell to the departing clergy
- Dealing with emotional reactions and anxiety in the congregation
- Assessing congregational needs through self-study
- Defining the role of the search committee
- Conducting interviews
- Reaching a decision
- Integrating the new clergy into the congregation and community
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Serving on the Clergy Search Committee
This four hour workshop is specifically geared toward members of a search committee and will help them understand and fulfill their mission. Topics include:
- Forming a functioning committee
- Communicating effectively within and outside the committee
- Assessing congregational needs through a self-study
- Setting priorities
- Interviewing candidates
- Avoiding stalemates
- Making the decision
- Negotiating a letter of agreement
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Traditionalists to Gen X and Beyond:
The Multi-Generation Congregation
This three hour workshop will teach congregation leaders, both lay and clergy, how to facilitate conversations among the generations. Topics include:
- Defining Traditionalists, the Baby-Boomers, Generation X, and beyond
- Identifying different attitudes, behaviors and values
- Exploring ways to use the strengths of each generation
- Facilitating better communications
- Preparing for the next generation
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Exploring Your Congregation's History:
Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future
This six hour workshop for all members of the congregation is an important part of a transition process. Each interactive program is specifically adapted to the congregation's experience, looking at its history and envisioning its future. Benefits include:
- Helping newer members understand and honor the past
- Helping all members understand the role of change
- Building commitment to the congregation
- Preparing the membership for a new future
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Healthy Congregations Workshops
This is a series of six hour workshops for clergy and lay-leaders. These workshops, developed by Dr. Peter Steinke, take a systems approach to congregation life.
The first workshop is a prerequisite for each of the others. The first of these workshops, "The Marks of Healthy Congregations," gives leaders the basic tools for managing conflict and moving toward the congregation's established goals. Topics include:
- An introduction to system thinking
- The marks of a healthy congregation
- Creating a healthy congregation
Other workshops in this series include:
- Responding to Change and Anxiety
- Leadership in Healthy Congregations
- Relationships in Healthy Congregations
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Conflict Intervention: The BridgeBuilder Process
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