Posted Thursday 14 May 2009
This is to give advance notice of a Conference for Stipendiary Clergy in the Glynhill Hotel Paisley from lunchtime on Tuesday May 18th till lunchtime on Thursday May 20th 2010.
This is a chance for stipendiary clergy in the Diocese to meet together for study, worship and mutual support. The 48-hour event will be facilitated by Dr Eolene Boyd-Macmillan, Research Associate with Cambridge University’s Psychology and Religion Research Group. A gifted trainer, her primary interests are the nature and dynamics of spiritual transformation.
She is a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church and has counselling and spiritual direction practices in Edinburgh. In 2007 she co-authored The Human Face of Church: A Social Psychology and Pastoral Theology Resource for Traditional and Pioneer Ministry (the first chapter of which can be downloaded here), a very practical book which draws on behavioural theory and organisational studies to equip local church leaders not only to manage change but to grow through it.
Just as the book deals with such questions as ‘How do you integrate the old with the new?’ ‘How do you manage change in an established congregation?’ ‘How do you cope with conflict?’, so will the sessions at the Conference deal with issues of relevance to priestly leadership today.
Category: Ministry Development
