Upcoming Advanced Courses
About our Advanced Courses
Each Advanced Course:
- builds on previous learning from the foundation courses, Transforming Church Conflict and Transforming Conflict 1
- takes the same approach to training – varied, practical and active
- helps you develop more specialised skills for transforming conflict in church and other Christian contexts
- is run no more than once a year
Please note at the present time we are not offering training in mediation skills.
Transforming Conflict 2: Building Resilient Leadership
- A four-day residential training course
- Builds on understanding and skills gained on Transforming Church Conflict and Transforming Conflict 1
Focussing particularly on the challenges of leading through times of change, this advanced course weaves together the learning of the foundation course with contextual experience brought by the participants from their church and other Christian settings. There is a particular emphasis on exploring what it means to be a resilient leader when anxiety is high and reactive behaviour is all too common.
We recommend that participants leave a period of at least 6-9 months between attending the foundation course (Transforming Conflict 1) and this course to enable the practices and approaches introduced at foundation level time to embed.
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We are seeking:
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 strategies for working through times of tension 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.
Bridge Builders plans that by the end of the course 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 for 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.
