Posted Monday 14 September 2009
Due to unforseen circumstances on the part of the person who was to lead the Conference for Stipendiary Clergy in the Glynhill Hotel Paisley next year - a chance for stipendiary clergy in the Diocese to meet together for study, worship and mutual support - both the date and the leadership of the event have had to be altered. It will now take place from lunchtime on Tuesday June 15th till lunchtime on Thursday June 17th 2010.
The 48-hour event will be now be facilitated by Duncan Wallace. Duncan is a Grubb Institute Associate, trained with the Tavistock Institute and with Grubb, and has been involved with the annual Transforming Clergy Leadership Conference as well as working as a consultant to the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.
Duncan will bring a huge toolkit of resources to bear on the issues we hope to tackle in the conference: change management, burn-out, relationship-building, anxiety about changing roles, active listening skills, conflict, and so on. He comes highly recommended and has the advantage of being a local resource with on-going availability after the conference. His website is: www.ideasandideals.co.uk
Duncan will contiue to make reference to 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 from the website), 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
