Support

Bridge Builders are here to support and guide you through transformation. For all concerns from Personal Coaching to Facilitating meetings you can contact us to discuss any thoughts you may be experiencing.

Bespoke Training Contact us about designing and delivering training that’s needed in your patch, but you can’t easily lay on by yourself.

There’s a range of courses that we can typically provide at request, and we’re happy to adapt what we’ve done before, or come up with something tailored specifically for you.

Or we can provide a trainer to come and deliver one of our standard events, if you recruit the participants, and arrange the venue.

Planning When you need to make major decisions or face long-ignored problems, tensions can rise.

We believe that it is important to pay as much attention to the way you handle the issues as to the conclusions you reach.

We can work with you to design an effective process for situations where:

The issues are complex.
There are strong feelings involved.
Things could easily get bogged down.
Your usual procedures are not working well.

We focus on planning to do business in a way that honours one another as fellow Christians, and that enables the group to discern God’s will together.

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Facilitating Meetings Many Christians have had experience of meetings that generate more heat than light.

Sometimes it can make a big difference for the meeting to be led by someone from outside the immediate context.

We can facilitate dialogue for groups that want to talk more constructively.

This might be when:

There’s an important decision to make
A meeting is potentially difficult because of intense feelings or past history
A large group needs to follow a carefully-structured process

We focus on promoting listening and understanding, including listening to God in prayer.

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Team Development Good teamwork does not just happen. Imagination and energy can flourish in a team, but they can also get stifled.

We can work with all sorts of church teams to:

Improve communication
Understand how different personal styles interact
Renew your pattern of team meetings
Handle disagreement more constructively

We focus on fostering healthy relationships, rooted in Christ, rather than simply on efficient working practices.

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Personal Coaching When church leaders face challenging situations they often value support at a practical level – thinking out how to respond.

Our consultancy service offers anything from a brief phone conversation to regular, intensive coaching. It can focus on anything from personal development to handling specific cases in church life.

It’s for anyone from local church ministers to denominational leaders or officials.

Examples:

Work consultancy for your ministry
Coaching or mentoring on an on-going basis
Coaching on managing yourself in a situation of challenging conflict
Support with strategic planning
Help with setting up a dialogue process for your church

Coaching can be face-to-face in London or Durham, or on the phone. We focus on helping leaders to model Christian maturity with those they lead.

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