{"id":220,"date":"2018-07-05T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2018-07-20T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T21:42:09","slug":"other-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/other-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Retreats and Workshops offered in Philadelphia or at your location<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2>Clergy Well-Being: Balancing Your Ministry, Renewing Your Life:\u00a0 An Urban Retreat in Philadelphia<\/h2>\n<p><em>Thursday, August 29, 2018 with Revs. Larry Peers and Debora Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/larry-debora-casual\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-248\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/larry-debora-casual.jpg?resize=254%2C154\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>Are you feeling the need for more balance, renewal, and resilience in your religious leadership and your life?\u00a0 Do you want to approach this coming congregation year in some qualitatively different ways? Is this the time for you to develop some perspectives and practices that will sustain you rather than drain you? Join Larry Peers and Debora Jackson in a small group (of up to 15) day-long retreat focused on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Revising your limiting narratives about religious leadership<\/li>\n<li>Learning from some short presentations on clergy well-being and flourishing in ministry and how these relate to effectiveness<\/li>\n<li>Using well-being self-assessments and learning to make specific course corrections<\/li>\n<li>Recognizing why self-care is not enough<\/li>\n<li>Experiencing mindfulness and self-compassion practices<\/li>\n<li>Learning to reduce the negative impact of stress on your life and ministry with the practices of HeartMath<i>\u00ae<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This retreat will get you started on developing a plan for composing the next chapter of your religious leadership so you can move toward sustained well-being and cultivate resilience.\u00a0 For more information and to register go to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/clergy-well-being-urban-retreat-august.eventbrite.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Page<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Spiritual and Leadership Renewal for Mid-Career Clergy: A Retreat (2 days)<\/h2>\n<p>Each season of ministry has its own rewards and challenges. By the time we are mid-career, we are facing questions, decisions and d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/about-larry\/larry-midsiz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/larry-midsiz-e1532027078777.jpg?resize=200%2C113\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>iscernment that would have never occurred to us when we began our ministry How we navigate and respond to this critical period of ministry has an impact on our personal, spiritual and ministerial lives. Mid-career is a particular threshold in ministry that may feel age-related or related to where you are in your own professional development. Mid-career can feel as if we are \u201cin the middle\u201d of our ministry, with some years behind us but still in sight of the finish line. We get to self-define it.<\/p>\n<p>In this retreat, we will engage in presentations, personal and small-group reflections and spiritual practices in which we listen deeply to our own gathered wisdom and to the emerging imagination of our ministry\u2014so that we can discern next steps. There will be pre-readings and self-assessments prior to the retreat.<\/p>\n<h2>Finishing Strong, Ending Well: Crafting the Culminating Chapter of Your Ministry<\/h2>\n<p>Are you planning to retire from full-time ministry during the next two to ten years?\u00a0\u00a0This event will help you make these years a vital, intentional time for culminating your ministry and also a time of exciting preparation for what\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/sample-page__trashed\/clergy-coaching-training-pic2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-60\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Clergy-Coaching-Training-pic2-e1530393368699.jpg?resize=276%2C243\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a>next.\u00a0 The experience will not only your own prepare you for the next stage of your life and ministry, it will also help you work and plan effectively with your congregation in order for you to finish strong and end well.<\/p>\n<h2>Cultivating Conflict-Competent Leadership: A Half-day Workshop<\/h2>\n<p>Conflict is inevitable\u2014even in not-for-profit and religious organizations.\u00a0Our awareness of and our responses to conflict as leaders can have a significant impact\u00a0on our capacity to lead and to\u00a0serve. In this seminar, you will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize perspectives and practices that can tilt an interaction toward constructive engagement of differences and conflict<\/li>\n<li>Learn your own tendencies and hot buttons<\/li>\n<li>Use the Conflict Dynamics profile to observe and reflect upon your conflict dynamics<\/li>\n<li>Work on representative cases in the group<\/li>\n<li>Develop actionable insights and a personalized plan for cultivating your own conflict-competent leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If interested, contact Larry: larry_at_lawrencepeers_dot_com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retreats and Workshops offered in Philadelphia or at your location Clergy Well-Being: Balancing Your Ministry, Renewing Your Life:\u00a0 An Urban Retreat in Philadelphia Thursday, August 29, 2018 with Revs. Larry Peers and Debora Jackson Are you feeling the need for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/other-services\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrencepeers.com\/leadingfromadifferentplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}