Thriving in Ministry
Six sessions for a group of new and established church leaders to develop wellbeing practices that will sustain their ministry for the long-term
Description
If your inner reserves are insufficient for the demands of ministry, you’re likely to experience signs and symptoms of stress and burnout. This is why good wellbeing practices are essential to maintaining long term resilience in ministry.
Church leadership has many facets: from the unseen administration and management duties, to the public ministry of preaching, teaching and pastoral care. Expectations are often high, a feeling of overload and overwhelm is common, and often self-care and personal wellbeing drifts to the bottom of the list of priorities. This programme, led by a therapist or facilitator, will enable church leaders to set time aside; explore why strong wellbeing practices are essential, and learn to make self-care a priority to build a thriving ministry.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
✅ Become familiar with physical, emotional, mental, systemic and spiritual resilience
✅ Understand why spiritual resilience is the foundation to building holistic resilience
✅ Identify personal aspects of resilience that need strengthening
✅ Build and integrate wellbeing practices into your ministry
AT A GLANCE
📍 Location: Online
⏰ Duration: A 6 month programme made up of 6, 2-hour live facilitated online sessions.
👥 Perfect for: Those new to church leadership who are keen to establish healthy wellbeing practices as they begin their ministry, experienced church leaders evaluating their current practices, wanting to strengthen their resilience and church leaders who have experienced burnout, are going through a change of role, or are having a sabbatical.
🎓 Learning style: Live facilitated sessions, reflective practice & group discussion. Pre-reading material and exercises wiIl be made available together with weekly thriving prompts and tips to help embed the learning and areas of change.
💬 We say: “Thriving is holistic. Understanding how faith, beliefs and spiritual practices play their part, establishes a strong foundation to build on and centre wellbeing practices around.”
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Testimonials
“I thoroughly enjoyed the training. The timing was just right for me at this stage in my ministry.” — Anonymous
