Webinars

Each webinar is an 60 minutes or less, includes a recording, printable resource, and ideas for next steps.

Webinars are for individual participants. If you would like to attend as a group, please contact us to discuss.

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Getting to Clarity: The Power of Mental Models in a Congregation

Knowledge and understanding of mental models (ours and theirs) help get our churches and organizations to greater clarity. Where are we going? What is a next faithful step? How do we get into action? These challenging questions are helped to be answered when we understand the assumptions, beliefs and automatic responses that we have and the people around us. Getting clear begins with understanding the assumptions we are making and the beliefs we hold.

Current Participant-Practitioner Nora Johnson, a pastor from German Valley, IL, will be co-facilitating this webinar with her team's CLC Coach Edie Lenz.

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Creating Good Process: How We Co-Create

Is your church dreaming about how to join God in mission but struggling to turn those dreams into lasting change? You're not alone. Many churches struggle to see God's vision for their emerging future and also find themselves stuck when it comes to implementation. Good process is the scaffolding that helps you discern, co-create, and implement your ministry goals. When discerning God’s emerging future and reimagining your church's future, a creative and collaborative process becomes an ally.

In this webinar you will be offered practical frameworks that honor faithful, prayerful discernment and effective action—tools that help your congregation or your new Middle Assembly move from "wouldn't it be wonderful if..." to "here's how we will make it happen."

We're excited to have Linda Milanowski-Westdorp join us as co-facilitator for this webinar.

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Leading Yourself: Disrupting Reactivity and your Autopilot

Learning to manage yourself and disrupting your own automatic behaviors is one of the most effective tools of leadership you have. How do we interrupt our usual patterns and disrupt our reactivity? What helps us engage our best thinking when tension rises, the stakes are high, or we simply don’t know what to do next? This webinar will examine some of the tools we use to shift ourselves from automatic reaction to thoughtful response.

We're excited to have Kurt Bush join us as co-facilitator for this webinar.

Janet

The Webinar helped me put into words things that were going on. I didn't know it was happening, but now that I reflect on it, I do. I left the webinar asking better questions to help me work through the challenge I was facing.

Past Webinars

See a topic you like? Purchase an edited recording and receive the free resource. Recordings are for individual use. If you would like to use them in a group setting, please contact us to discuss.

Managing Grief and Loss During Communal Change

We all know it: change means something is lost, even if what’s gained is better, healthier, and more aligned with God’s Design. Helping communities identify that sense of loss, to grieve it, and be able to move on in life together is vital for thriving. In this webinar, we’ll explore ways that you can help your community grow their emotional and spiritual maturity so that your congregation can faithfully filter and adapt in a constantly changing world.

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Finding Your Footing in the Midst of Change

When everything is changing, from your church, denomination, the country and the world, how do you even start to filter and adapt in helpful ways?

By finding our footing with God and your leadership group, you can take the next step together.

In this one hour webinar we’ll explore how to Get on the Balcony with your leaders in order to find God's sure foundation in your context. What has God Designed for your church to pursue in service and ministry? Who has God Designed you to be? Learn how to get clarity about these questions as you try out some ideas, observe, learn and discover that unique thing that only your congregation can witness to the world.

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Having an Appropriate Support System as a Leader

What does your support system look like as a leader? Do you have a constellation of support? Are there places, spaces, and relationships outside your community to process what’s happening within your community? How are your spiritual practices and habits sustaining you?

As change happens, some of the things we took for granted are no longer available; how do we avoid neglecting what is vital? Join us to talk about the role counter systems play for adaptive leaders, do an audit on your current support system, and make a plan to develop a counter system focused on collaboration, mutual support, and a shared commitment to God's purposes.

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