Healthy Congregations and the Leadership Series will welcome Dr. Lawrence E. Matthews as our guest presenter in May.

Dr. Matthews has written extensively around theological themes and Bowen Family Systems theory.  Healthy Congregations invites those interested in hearing Larry Matthews and learning more about family emotional process to join us on Friday, May 14th.  Registration for the morning is $50.

There will be a facilitator training event offered in eastern Ohio in November 2009.  The event is offered by the Muskingum Valley Presbytery, PC(USA).

High-Level Leadership and the Emotional Side of Organizations

Featuring

Dr. Roberta Gilbert

Description

A Congregation or other organization has “a life of its own.” This seminar is designed to help leaders in churches and other organizations to understand the emotional side of their system, their own contribution to the group’s emotional life, and to lead effectively through managing self.

There will be a facilitator training event in Columbia, South Carolina on April 15 and May 6.

For more information, contact Robert Holley.

Healthy Congregations is providing an opportunity for people in the Great Lakes region to be trained as facilitators in a way which many may find easier to accommodate in their schedules.  The training will take the normal time frame of three days and cover all facilitator materials, but the three days of training will be spread throughout the spring.  We hope you will choose to be part of this exciting opportunity.

Healthy Congregations is once again offering a formalized class as part of the summer course offerings of Trinity Lutheran Seminary.  This one-week class will take a broad look at a family systems approach to congregational life and offer the additional opportunity to be trained as a Healthy Congregations facilitator.

Description

This workshop will be presented by Louise Rauseo, RN, CS-P.  Families and clinicians will gain equally from this opportunity to observe the way clinical families apply family systems thinking to a variety of family and individual issues. This includes learning to observe the system while addressing the importance of individual responsibility and personal development in the form of differentiation of self. The basic concepts in Bowen theory will be presented along with the clinical sessions.

Understanding How Systems Function

A series of three workshops has been scheduled to help us understand how we can function better in the systems which we are a part of every day.  Each workshop will look at a major concept in systems theory through presentation and clinical work in small groups.