Healthy Congregations, Inc.

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

For more information, contact Robert Holley.

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.

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).

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.

It is clearer as change and stress escalate that leading of congregations is fraught with emotional challenge.  Knowing where that challenge originates and how it works is valuable for those who have to face it constantly.

These ongoing seminars in natural systems theory are provided to assist leaders in knowing both themselves and the emotional lay of the land in the organizational systems they serve.  Sessions will be structured to provide learning in systems theory (Murray Bowen and Edwin Friedman).  Time will be focused on emotional systems (family, organization, community) and how to lead for success and change.  We will also discuss family of origin issues as they relate to leadership.

These monthly opportunities to think natural systems are intented to form a cultural press to assist leaders in grasping the bigger picture as they face conflict, sabotage, and challenge.  They are designed as a way of thinking for those who seek to lead change and survive.

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.

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.

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.

Healthy Congregations is pleased to announce two 2010 facilitator event opportunities for people living in the Appalachian/southeast U.S. area.

• Event 1: Monday-Wednesday, April 19-21, 2010
• Event 2: Monday-Wednesday, September 20-22, 2010

Each event is independent of the other, meaning that you can be trained as a facilitator by attending either event (you do not need to attend both).