Home Partnership Seminar
This is a three evening or weekend seminar.
The seminar is suitable for those who are in new relationships or long term relationships.
For those with children, teenagers, grandchildren or no children at all.
The primary focus is set within the marriage and family.
Seminar Units
- A biblical understanding of marriage.
- Understanding how our past enriches or confuses the present.
- The gift of personality and temperament
- Why is it that the person I thought I was marrying isn’t the same one that I find I am living with?
- Why I have difficulty understanding what it is you are trying to say to me.
- How come I see things that you miss and you feel things that I don’t think are there?
- Are men and women that different?
– The different worlds of men and women.
- How come I do so much for you and yet you say that I don’t spend enough time with you?
- What kids, fun and fellowship has to do with sex – or celebration in the bedroom
All marriages can benefit from taking time for reflection and growth – even good marriages can be made better
Mediation and Conflict resolution
Building Bridges – Finding Hope
Seminar brochure click here
In a few words I want to talk about what could be seen as an important part of the ministry we are developing. For a number of years I have been troubled by the way the Christian community fights itself. Not only does this divide and disrupt our life, sometimes leaving people badly hurt but it also is an appalling witness to the community. This has led me to do some forty-four hours of mediation training with the view of finding a way to help us become the redemptive communities that God intended.
You may want to explore other issues as well:
Reaching the community for Christ
I am very interested in talking with churches and leadership about ways to set up new initiatives to interface with secular society. There are a number of suggestions about for this that include establishing “faith communities” within a parish that are designed to intentionally connect with the communities about them. Does this sound like something that you can explore?
To date this has meant I have taken several seminars that seek to develop our understanding of conflict and how we can positively progress forward. The feedback has indicated that this was a useful introduction, providing new insights into how they can manage conflict within their ministries. These seminars have been at the invitation of leadership training groups and clergy groups. I have also undertaken to train a team of mediators. The mediation model I am in trained uses co-mediators.
We are keen to now offer this to the Christian community in two ways: As a group and or parish training to help develop understanding in how and why we conflict with practical skill development and ideas in managing conflict and achieving healthy resolution and therefore healthy communities. Secondly, to be mediators.
If you are struggling with conflict and what appears to be irreconcilable difference is your church you may like to consider contacting me and seeing whether together we can find a helpful way forward.
The important questions are:
Faith Sharing Teams
The Vision
Churches sharing with each other the faith they share. We are looking for members of churches to be willing to make up a team to respond to an inviation of another church to share their faith story and to bring encouragement.
Such events are of great benefit to all.
