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Upcoming Trainings
April 3, 2008
Keeping a Cool Head in a Hot Meeting
New Windsor, Md.
April 4-5, 2008
Keyser, WV
April 12, 2008
Tipp City, Ohio
May 3, 2008
Camp Harmony,
Hooversville, PA
July 12-16, 2008
Church of the Brethren Annual Conference
Insight Session
Richmond, VA:
"Deacons Guiding Us Toward Peace" In English and Spanish!
Public Conversations Project
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Greetings!
The Ministry of Reconciliation of On Earth Peace is pleased to offer you the newest edition of Reconciliation News. Our goal remains the same--to keep you informed of upcoming trainings and the latest resources in conflict transformation. Please send any comments or questions to me at annie.clark@verizon.net. Blessings in your work as reconcilers and peacemakers! Grace and peace,
Annie Clark |
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Keeping a Cool Head in a Hot Meeting |
Join us in New Windsor, Maryland, April 3, 2008 for our newest workshop, Keeping a Cool Head in a Hot Meeting. Bernie Fuska, MoR practitioner and pastor, and Faye Wampler, professional mediator and friend of MoR will lead this daylong workshop covering:
- the best way to structure meetings, with an eye to efficiency, openness and clarity
- basic guidelines to use when anxiety levels are high and tension fills the meeting room
- how to lead difficult discussions
This workshop runs from 9 am to 5 pm. Cost is $89/participant and covers materials and lunch at the New Windsor Conference Center. Discounts available for groups of three or more. CEUs available for Church of the Brethren ministers.
For more information on this and our other spring workshops featuring consensus decision-making and systems thinking/healthy congregations, click here. |
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Consensus Decision-making workshop comes to Dayton area. |
 Save April 12, 2008 on your calendar for the workshop Exploring Consensus Decision-making at the West Charleston Church of the Brethren in Tipp City, Ohio. Join MoR practitioners Charletta Erb and Wanda Joseph for a day of learning the underlying principles of consensus and practical skills for facilitating the consensus process. Participate in a mock consensus process. For information and registration, click here. |
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Resources on Systems Theory/Healthy Congregations Workshop |
| Recently, the Mid-Atlantic District sponsored a pastor's retreat on family systems theory, a very relevant topic to congregations. The pastors spent a day and a half with Douglas Murphy of the Center of Study of the Family learning about the dynamics that influence our families and our congregations. Here is a list of resources related to systems theory culled from that workshop and the web:
Finally, MoR and the Western Pennsylvania District are co-sponsoring a Healthy Congregations workshop, led by Jim Kinsey, on May 3, 2008. This workshop is based on the work of Peter Steinke, a congregational consultant and systems theory practitioner.
Learn: 
- a Biblical approach to consulting and healing broken communities
- the dynamics of emotional field, the way the brain functions and co-causal understandings of human interaction
- skills for self-understanding and differentiation in healing ministries
Click here for registration and information. |
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The Final Word |
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Be happy in the moment--that's enough. Each moment is all we need--not more.
~Mother Theresa | |
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