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  • 11/04/2022 - When a congregation has no clear head-of-staff, the board needs to ensure that good staffing and supervision practices are in place.
    November 2, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision
  • You may be coming back into more active congregational life and reacting to all that has changed. What’s next for your congregation?
    By Megan Foley | November 1, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Small Congregations
  • Here are the latest insights, ideas, tools, and permission to do the work of the Committee on (Shared) Ministry effectively from Congregational Life Staff.
    Book | By Erica Baron, Sana Saeed, Patricia Infante, Hilary Allen, Melissa James | October 29, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • Help your people learn how to give helpful evaluations and so we can be much better ministers.
    Book | By Erica Baron | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • Conflict engagement requires engaging in healthy communication and modeling healthy boundaries.
    Book | By Sana Saeed | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • One evening at a Board meeting, we came to a question about our definitions of membership....
    Book | By Erica Baron | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • The work of the Committee on Ministry (CoM) is shared ministry, which includes attending to the vitality of the congregation.
    Book | By Sana Saeed | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • Being able to name harmful behaviors is the first step in being able to respond to them.
    By Renee Ruchotzke | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations
  • Assemble a team of people with complimentary skills to serve on the Committee on Shared Ministry.
    Book | By Patricia Infante | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • The point of a community of practice is for people who want to get better at something to learn from each other through regular interaction. Even people new to a field can help the group learn. Their observations and questions can identify unrecognized practices and raise awareness of which...
    By Meck Groot, Joe Sullivan | October 20, 2022 | From Practice Makes Possible Blog
  • Lay pastoral care expands the caring ministry of your congregation, and enables leaders to deepen their faith development and spiritual leadership.
    October 20, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Pastoral Care
  • 10/7/2022 - Learning to let go and do less can be helpful as we focus on the quality of community and programs rather than quantity.
    October 7, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • The mental model of the "Social Discipline Window" can be helpful in understanding different patterns of how we might respond when someone is causing harm in our communities.
    Book | October 5, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant
  • Learn how Sociocracy can use the wisdom of the circle to help our congregations thrive by decentering unhelpful power structures.
    Webinar | By Renee Ruchotzke | September 23, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
  • Our faith calls us to resist the temptation to weaponize words. This story shows how hard that can be.
    Reflection | By Wren Bellavance-Grace | September 22, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations
  • Disability advocates remind us that multiplatform worship in real time, with the chance for some interaction, creates a meaningful experience for those participating online.
    Book | By Sarah Movius Schurr, Renee Ruchotzke | September 21, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • When you are depending on volunteers to care for your congregation, you will want to keep your ministry manageable, and provide relevant training for those providing the programming.
    September 20, 2022 | From LeaderLab
  • Right Relations Teams are lay leaders entrusted to help the congregation practice faithful communication and creative conflict based on values of mutuality and consent.
    Training | August 29, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant
  • The following (from the Northlake UU Church in Kirkland, WA) is an example of a chater (or charge) for a Right Relationship Team (aka Healthy Congregation Team): Purposes: To facilitate the well-being of the _________ Community by fostering harmonious relations and mediating conflicts within the...
    Book | By Northlake UU Church, Kirkland, WA | August 29, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant
  • Choose members who are well respected and trusted based on their spiritual maturity and deep listening skills. Conflict transformation requires vulnerability, which requires trust.
    Book | August 26, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Competencies for Leadership