Transforming Conflict 2: Building Resilient Leadership – An Advanced Course for Leaders
Course Introduction
Resilient leadership in challenging times
Conflict brings particular challenges for those in leadership, as they face calls to implement change while managing tense relationships, all of which comes at a personal cost.
Transforming Conflict 2: Building Resilient Leadership is an advanced course designed for those who have begun to implement the learning of the foundation course Transforming Church Conflict or Transforming Conflict 1 and are looking for encouragement to:
- Develop greater resilience in leading times of change or tension
- Reflect with others on practical peacemaking in the context of a learning, worshipping community
- Build on theological principles to encourage a constructive culture around change and conflict
- Further develop a commitment as a leader to living well with difference as an act of witness
Course Summary
Dates
Cost
Venue
What You'll Learn
Attend this course if you want to:
This three-day residential course weaves together the learning of the foundation course with contextual experience brought by the participants from their church and other Christian settings, to explore what it means to be a resilient leader in the face of conflict. Acknowledging that change is often a disorienting experience for individuals and communities, the course explores the skills, self-awareness, and theological grounding needed to lead intentionally and live faithfully as ministers of reconciliation in practice. We recommend that to gain full benefit from this course, a period of at least 12 months should be left between attending Transforming Church Conflict or Transforming Conflict 1 and this course.
Transforming Conflict 2: Building Resilient Leadership draws on Bridge Builders courses of leading similar training since 1996, and our commitment to peace-making.
Course Objectives
- To increase your resilience as a leader facing conflict, so that you become clearer about your own responses to conflict, more self-aware in making choices in tense situations, and more confident in showing leadership through times of change.
- To deepen a sense of commitment to leading through conflict, tension and change in ways that place reconciliation at the heart of discipleship for a Christian community.
- To reinforce and develop practical skills and strategiesfor working through times of tension as a leader, so that you can engage with change and conflict with greater confidence,and develop greater awareness and confidence in the communities of which you are part.
Course Outcomes
By the end of the course we expect that you will have:
- Developed greater awareness about your own working style and how to inhabit it in constructive ways
- Explored a Biblical framework for leading through change
- Developed further skills in communicating clearly and consistently in times of tension
- Enhanced your skills for working with resistance in groups and individuals
- Reflected on theological concepts of forgiveness, grace and reconciliation and what they might look like in practice in a Christian community
- Learnt ways of working with challenging behaviour
- Developed your ability to analyse the relationships and power dynamics of conflict
- Explored the impact of culture on communities and considered ways to bring about change in culture
- Reflected on self care and what you need to build resilience in leadership
Presenters
Liz Griffiths is Director of Training for Bridge Builders. She is an Anglican Priest and has a broad experience of both parish ministry and adult education. Liz has worked in city centre and urban estate parishes, and as Vice-Principal of the Eastern Region Ministry Course, helping to train ordained and lay ministers.
Rupert Ward is a Bridge Builders Training Partner. He leads a church in the centre of Edinburgh and is increasingly devoting time to training and facilitation of leadership groups in other churches & charities. He has trained in facilitation, counselling and theology.
Course Timings
Key Dates:
Monday 31 March: arrival 3:00pm; 4.00pm-6:00pm; 7.30pm-9.00pm
Tuesday 1 April: 9:00am-1:00pm; 3.30pm-6.00pm; 7.30pm-9.00pm
Wednesday 2 April: 9:00am-1:00pm; 2:00pm-6.00pm
Thursday 3 April: 9:00am-1:00pm
Accommodation
Venue Information
Costs & Booking
Fees
The full cost of the course is £595.
A training manual, accommodation, meals and refreshments are included in the fee.
Bursaries: if you are on a low income, a bursary may be available to help cover the cost of attending. Please see the bursary information page.
Booking & Cancellation
To apply, add a ticket to your cart below. Applications remain provisional until Bridge Builders has received a deposit of £150. The balance of the fee is due eight weeks before the start of the course (i.e. by Monday 9 December 2024). Once accepted, the £150 deposit is non-refundable. The full fee is owed if a place is cancelled within eight weeks of the course start date (i.e. from Monday 9 December 2024 onwards). Please see our terms and conditions and data protection policy.
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