From our friends at the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center:
This 5-day event is designed to equip church leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to deal effectively with interpersonal, congregational, and other forms of group conflict. It also includes a component on congregational mediation and consultation, placed within the context of family systems theory. Although focused primarily on the church setting, the skills learned are directly transferable to other settings, including the business and academic worlds. Join us and find out for yourself why a previous participant described MSTI as “The best and most thorough model for mediation with individuals and congregations that I have experienced in more than three decades of ordained ministry”!
This Workshop Will Help You...
Learn how to navigate conflict through practicing role playing exercises during the institute
Understand the role of personal positionality in a conflict
Learn interpersonal peacemaking skills
Understand your own response to conflict
Learn the different stages in mediation
Apply Bowen Family Systems Theory as a way to understand church conflict
Who Will Benefit:
Pastors and interim pastors of all denominations
Judicatory leaders in assisting pastors and congregations in handling conflicts
College and seminary students as a way to gain practical as well as theoretical skills in conflict management
Community mediators who wish to gain more skills in the transformational model of mediation work
Attorneys interested in learning alternative dispute resolution procedures
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