This 2020 edition of Harvest the Power, like the 2009 original, asserts that leadership in a congregational setting can and should be a deeply spiritual experience. Six two-hour workshops offer intentional faith development to help form integrated UU leaders who model healthy personal and leadership practices.
Congregations can offer this program with a lay facilitator or co-facilitators. It can be adapted for online learning.
Browse this online "book" to explore the entire program.
Download the entire program as an editable Word document or as a PDF file .
Contents
Introduction to Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
From Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
Lifting up leadership in a congregational setting as a deeply spiritual experience, this program strengthens skills of current leaders and offers intentional faith development to foster new, well-integrated leaders who model healthy personal and leadership practices.
Workshop 1: Leadership Journey
From Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
This workshop serves as an introduction to the Harvest the Power program, presenting key concepts and inviting participants to share their own leadership stories. The workshop contains alternate activities for getting to know one another and for exploring individual notions of faith, but do not...
Workshop 2: From "I" to "We"
From Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
This workshop focuses on the relationships that are the center of our congregations, beginning with a deeper exploration of covenant. Participants examine their congregational culture to discover which voices and perspectives are at the center of congregational life, which are on the margins, and why that matters.
Workshop 3: Are We Doing the Right Things?
From Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
This workshop introduces the idea of turning points—times when events or circumstances lead one’s life in a new direction. After identifying personal turning points, participants consider conditions that can lead a congregation to and through a turning point.
Workshop 4: Caring for Ourselves and One Another
From Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
This workshop helps participants consider how they care for themselves as leaders and how they encourage and model self-care for other members of the congregation. Participants reflect on the causes of personal stress and burnout and on their own responses to stress.
Workshop 5: Integrity
From Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
This workshop invites participants into challenging territory. The activities explore the stresses that are part of the fabric of the life of our congregational community. Participants name and embrace that which sustains and grounds them, and learn how this self-knowledge can help them lead from a place of creativity
Workshop 6: Faith and Conflict
From Harvest the Power, 2nd Edition
In this workshop, participants practice looking at the structures, committees, and formal and informal groups of the congregation as an inter-related, interconnected system. They will identify relational and emotional patterns within the congregation as they examine congregational changes and challenges.
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