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UPCOMING FEBRUARY
LUNCH & LEARN EVENT:
BEHAVIORAL COVENANTS
The Center for Transformational Leadership's February Lunch & Learn session will introduce the topic of Behavioral Covenants. This 2-part program on Zoom provides an introduction to the concept and practice of behavioral covenants in the congregational setting and offers some basic resources for church leadership to develop their own covenants. This will be facilitated by Rev. Elizabeth Dilley, Minister and Team Leader for the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA) ministry team in the national setting.
- Part One (Lunch & Learn Session): Thursday, February 17th from 12:00 pm-12:50 pm
- Part Two (Follow Up Session): Wednesday, May 11th from 3:00 pm-5:30 pm
You can REGISTER TODAY for this event or learn more about upcoming sessions 3 Minute Read
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THE ROLE OF DISCERNMENT
An interview with Beth Estock
Interviewer: Karen Ziel, Assistant Director, Center for Transformational Leadership
Karen Ziel, Assistant Director of The SNEUCC Center for Transformational Leadership conducted an interview with Beth Estock on the practice of discernment. As co-author of Weird Church: Welcome to the 21st Century, and a consultant to congregations, Beth has gone deeply into the practice of discernment to enrich her life and work. We recognize that faithful and successful transformation requires effective practices of discernment.
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NEGOTIATING A LIMINAL SEASON
with Susan Beaumont
The Center for Transformational Leadership and Together We Thrive invite you to a 90-minute webinar on leading in a liminal season with Susan Beaumont on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm.
Are you experiencing a sense of ambiguity or disorientation? Liminality refers to the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs during transition, when a person or group of people is in between something that has ended and something else that is not yet ready to begin. During this webinar, we introduce liminality and explore the challenges and opportunities facing organizations in liminal space. We will explore this pandemic season as a liminal season requiring a unique leadership stance and a different body of leadership work. (REGISTER TODAY)
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POINT IN TIME: TIME CAPSULE PROJECT
Elisa Wilson
Program Support Associate, The Center for Transformational Leadership
In early 2021, the Center for Transformational Leadership was given the opportunity to manage the activities related to a grant-funded Time Capsule Project. This project will document and record for perpetuity the experiences, struggles, and growth that churches faced during the 2020 pandemic, with special emphasis placed on church experiences related to COVID and the racial justice wildfire that swept the nation. The project seeks to answer the question: "How did this generation of Southern New England Conference churches make the faith their own during the pandemics of systemic racism and COVID-19?" (CONTINUE READING) 2 Minute Read.
CONTACT US
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