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Healthy Congregations
Integrated Leadership: Intellect, Emotion, Spirit, Behavior
This resource empowers congregational members and leadership by offering a basic understanding of Systems as it applies to congregations. The focus is on influencing and enhancing the strengths of the congregation, addressing the natural reactivity, both positive and negative that occurs in any family system. This seminar uses the theoretical framework of the Family Systems as developed in Dr. Edwin Friedman's Generation to Generation, Peter Steinke's Healthy Congregations, as well as several others.
In this seminar leaders, both lay and clergy, will learn about Systems thinking, the human brain, self-differentiation, leadership, anxiety - what triggers it and how it spreads like a virus, as well as healthy characteristics of response.
This seminar is designed to empowered each person to become a more healthy leader in their home, personal life, and professional life. Many consider this a "continuing education" experience for their profession of eduction, medicine, or any health profession. CEUs can be given to those who ask.
Many congregations make this available to the community as well as their church. Other congregations have invites professionals to consider this as an investment for their company or business.
This seminar is an investment in all your people. As they get healthy, so does the church.
The value of the Healthy Congregation Seminar
This seminar helps leaders and congregation better handle the anxiety and reactive behavior that naturally occurs in a church family, especially when it undergoes change, conflict, or growth. This program positively affects all the participants, far beyond their roles in the congregation: it also offers tools that can strengthen their personal and family lives as well.
Comments made by some of the participants
When asked to evaluate the seminar as Very Valuable, Valuable, Somewhat
Valuable and Not Valuable , 75% rated the experience as Very Valuable
and 25% rated it as Valuable .
"The seminar opened my eyes and made me aware of the anxiety I experience when dealing with changes, especially when we seek younger members."
D. Robinson, Lay Member.
"I would encourage others to participate in this seminar. Life is about relationships and you will use this information in all relationships in life, if you choose to."
A. Rutherford, Church Staff.
"There are tools you will get from this seminar that will make a great difference in how you deal with the world. And the emphasis on being a non-anxious presence in the midst of craziness has been extremely helpful for many reasons."
D. DeToni-Hill, Clergy.
"The seminar not only helps at church level, but in business and the home too. Wonderful, useful material!"
M. Sawyer, Lay Member.
"I thought your weekend workshop with us was wonderful! It incorporated scripture, therapeutic techniques, biology, and just plain good sense. I am finding it useful to create a healthier me as well as make me more effective in my church, home, and my office."
F. Crawford, Lay Member - Director of County Dept of Social Services
What you can learn in a Healthy Congregations Seminar
How anxiety and reactivity occur and infect the system.
How to develop an immune system to deal with the natural infectious quality of anxiety and reactivity.
How to focus on strength and not on weakness, and celebrate what is right with your system.
How enmeshment and detachment fuse people together making it difficult to be healthy.
How to regulate your own nervous system when dealing with the system.
How balance or "homeostasis" feels good and can sabotage growth. How emotional triangles are natural, strengthen relationships, and undermine relationships. The Seven Steps to Healthy Congregations that can make a difference. How Self-Differentiation makes the difference.
Investment
The seminar requires a minimum of 8 and preferably a total of 12 hours. The seminar can be designed to fit into an out-of-church retreat setting or a church setting as well. Worship leadership, including sermon, is also available as it helps more members to grasp the value of the investment in this seminar and its materials.
The cost
The total fee for the seminar for a church or a group of churches is $1400.
Worship leadership with sermon is an additional $200, $300 for multiple services.
Travel expenses are additional.
Materials can be purchased and/or reproduced by the church.
Who needs to attend? Clergy and Lay Leadership.
This seminar is a great investment in all your people, both inside and outside your congregation.
For more information email Bill Selby at integrity4u@comcast.net
VisionQuest
This is an event designed to develop comfort in change, stimulate creative thinking about the future, and create a "new vision" that positively impacts participants and their organizations.
Participants to VisionQuest explore attitudes, feelings and beliefs. VisionQuest helps people examine and affirm who they are and where they want to go in life. It encourages and invites change to take place. It centers on the paradigm of growth. VisionQuest helps to determine how growth can happen. VisionQuest helps people work in healthy and meaningful ways toward a new vision.
This is, as well as all of our resources, are designed to empower all people whether they are inside or outside the congregation.
Design
To enable positive and healthy change, plan an 8-hour VisionQuest event for yourself or your organization. The event is best scheduled on an evening and the following day, such as Friday evening and Saturday.
Cost
The VisionQuest costs $1400 plus travel expenses.
With worship and sermon, add $200, $300 for multiple services
Materials will be reproduced by the church.
For more information email Bill Selby at integrity4u@comcast.net
Team and Leadership Development Seminar
Church Staff and Leadership are some of the most dedicated workers and yet they often are exhausted trying to meet the demands of both their personal life and the demands of the church. They often are embroiled in the conflict and reactivity of the church and the staff. They are also the ones who take the brunt of the reactivity when growth or change in the church occur.
The Team and Leadership Development seminar assists leaders:
....understand their work-behavior tendencies.
....develop a basic understanding of how these work styles may affect the team.
....understand, respect, appreciate, and value individual differences.
....enhance each one's effectiveness by improving their relationships with others.
....develop strategies for working together to
increase productivity,
address conflict,
deal with the normal stresses and the divisive nature of church systems.
The DiSC Personal Profile System is utilized in this seminar. It is the best on the market and is utilized by most Fortune 500 corporations. This behavioral instrument is extremely user-friendly. It combines both the cognitive and the affective areas in helping people understand each one's strengths and limitations, as well as of those with whom they work.
Participants can grow in self-understanding but, even more important, can put this new knowledge to use immediately both in their professional and personal lives. This is an extremely important investment for any congregation.
To enable a positive, strong, and healthy leadership team, schedule an 8-Hour Seminar.
Costs
The seminar costs $1400 for leadership,
$30/person for materials,
plus leadership travel and expenses.
For worship and sermon following the seminar add $200, $300 for multiple services.
Church Growth With Integrity
Church growth, whether in a new church or in an established one, demands a lot of hard work. That's for sure! It especially requires Vision, Healthy Thinking, and a Strong Leadership Team. If you do not have all three, you will not have growth with integrity.
The Three-Step Church Growth With Integrity Plan has been designed to excite, motivate and empower the participating church. The seminar series creates Growth With Integrity. However, each seminar also stands on its own as a quality event for church leadership.
Here is how Church Growth With Integrity works
Step One - Healthy Congregation Integrated Leaders: Intellect, Emotion, Spirit, and Behavior This seminar provides the needed information for the everyone, including major leadership to understand Systems Theory and the systemic negative reactivity that is normal when growth or change occurs in the congregation.
Results: Excited, future-growth minded leaders who are less anxious, but still vulnerable to being undermined by a concerned congregation.
Step Two - Team & Leadership Development A seminar to solidify the team. It should include paid staff, staff-parish (personnel committee), and major leaders. This seminar empowers the leadership to understand, appreciate, and value one another.
Results: Excited, less anxious, and empowered leadership, capable of leading church growth with integrity.
Step Three: VisionQuest: A seminar that provides insight into church growth and development. Empowers leaders to begin the Vision process to address the future.
Results: Excited and energized leaders capable of addressing growth while understanding the natural reactivity which comes with that process, Sets up leaders to be the solid emotional precence needed for all family systems.
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