Workshops
With breaks, meals and conversation, each workshop lasts about six hours. Workshops 1-3 build on one another and are taken in sequence 3-6 months apart.Pastors, Councils, call committees, church staff and other church leaders should attend.Leaders from multiple congregations at a single workshop strengthen the learning.
Workshops are interactive and learner centered. Creative teaching techniques include videos, group projects, case study,practical exercises, large and small group discussion.
Workshop #1
Creating Healthy Congregations
Introduces Systems Thinking as a way to understand your congregation
Equips leaders to value differences, focus on strengths and mission.
Leaders will begin to develop and refine their mission and vision for the future.
Workshop #2
Healthy Congregations Respond to Anxiety and Change
Equips leaders to respond to anxiety and change rather than react to it.
Equips leaders to manage conflict effectively rather than avoid it.
Equips leaders to act flexibly and creatively.
Workshop #3
Leadership in Healthy Congregations
Equips leaders to promote health through their presence and functioning
Equips leaders to challenge people
Equips leaders to build resilience in their congregation for the sake of mission.
These workshops enable leaders to:
Gain a renewed sense of mission and vision
Cultivate strong leadership capacities to challenge the congregation
Learn how to develop healthy patterns of living together in community
Learn to focus on strengths, resources and options for the future
Boost confidence in responding to challenges and opportunities
Learn how to lead calmly and with thoughtfulness
Reflect theologically about relationships
Move the congregation toward even healthier functioning
What is the cost?
Normally, workshops cost $200 plus the cost of the materials, facilitator mileage and lunch. Synod-sponsored workshops are $20 per person for the hosting congregation to cover the cost of materials, lunch and to offset facilitator travel costs. Cost for those not members of the hosting congregation is $25. Payments must be made with registration. Synod-sponsored events will include online registration at www.swtsynod.org.
Summer, Fall 2013 Synod –Sponsored Workshops:
July 20 WS 1 Cuero
July 27 WS 1 McAllen
Aug. 24 WS 1 Corpus Christi
Sept. 7 WS 1, 2, 3 San Marcos
Sept 28 WS 1 San Antonio,
Rio Grand Valley
WS 1, 3 Austin
Oct. 3 WS 1 Blue Bonnet Conf.
TBD WS 1 Hill Country Conf.
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