Bridge Builders

Transforming Church Conflict: Content

The course includes:

Expect an intensive and busy time!

To increase your self-awareness as a leader facing conflict, so that you become clearer about how others experience you and more confident about some of what you have to offer, and where you may need to grow
To transform your attitude towards conflict and engaging with conflict, so that you are able to face conflict more constructively
To equip you with practical skills for working with conflict, so that you can engage with conflict more confidently in future

And also, for the Senior Leaders version only:

To equip you with conflict analysis skills, so that you can better assess what type of interventions may be most appropriate in situations referred to you

By the end of the course we expect that you will have:

Developed greater awareness about your communication style and its impact on others
Reflected on Biblical resources related to conflict
Enhanced your skills for communicating effectively in times of conflict
Experienced and practised skills for facilitating meetings
Learnt ways of building consensus and working with resistance in groups
Developed your ability to analyse conflict and to identify what intervention may be most appropriate, such as mediation
Considered ways to nurture a culture of creative engagement with conflict
Reflected on the type of leadership needed in times of anxiety and tension
Discovered ways that conflict can offer opportunities for growth

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