A growing library of training materials for various congregational volunteer roles including board members, committee chairs, treasurers, ministry team leaders, teachers, etc.
Core Leadership Trainings
Core Leadership Trainings
Effective Leadership Development teams focus on recruiting and relationship building. By using our suite of four leadership development trainings, you can spend less time on content and more on connection. All of our courses have discussion questions that you can use for in-person sessions.
Discernment Circle Training
Learn how to use discernment circle practices for complex decisions in your committees and teams.
Committee on Shared Ministry Training
Resources for Committees on Ministry
Here are the latest insights, ideas, tools, and permission to do the work of the Committee on (Shared) Ministry effectively from Congregational Life Staff.
Right Relationship Team Training
Resources for Congregational Right Relationship TeamsThe Tenders of the Covenant
Our covenants articulate our intention, but how do we live into the practice? Right Relations Teams are lay leaders entrusted to help the congregation practice faithful communication and creative conflict based on values of mutuality and consent.
Volunteer Sustainability
Stop Recruiting, Start Retaining: Creating a Culture of Volunteer Sustainability
Volunteer considerations and strategies that will help to create a culture of generosity in your congregation or organization and therefore, sustainability.
Leadership Development Teams
Leadership Development Team Training
Spend your leadership development energy on relationship-building and connecting individuals to meaningful service.
Other Board Committees
Fostering Safer Congregations
Resources for religious educators, ministers and other congregational leaders to prevent and address violence, abuse, harassment, inappropriate behavior, and other threats to safety.
Personnel Committee
Personnel Committees don’t hire, manage or supervise staff. Instead they advise the board and the senior minister on best practices.
These are not specific trainings, but they provide guidance on what skills are needed.
Board Committees
Boards may find that delegating part of their fiduciary work to committees (e.g. safety, finance, personnel) and/or task forces helps to free them up for more strategic work.