The Non-Anxious Leader: Family Systems Basics
The key to effective leadership is the ability to remain a non-anxious presence, especially when others are most anxious. The uncertainty created by the pandemic and pending denominational split intensifies this need.
This four-week, online course, will help you to grow as a non-anxious leader. It will show you how to apply family systems theory so that you can be a non-anxious presence personally and professionally. All content can be accessed asynchronously. The three live sessions with the instructor are recorded in case you are unable to join them in real time.
Course dates: October 7 - November 3, 2024
FREE to lay and clergy members of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conferences.
This four-week, online course, will help you to grow as a non-anxious leader. It will show you how to apply family systems theory so that you can be a non-anxious presence personally and professionally. All content can be accessed asynchronously. The three live sessions with the instructor are recorded in case you are unable to join them in real time.
Course dates: October 7 - November 3, 2024
FREE to lay and clergy members of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conferences.
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Anxious times and anxious institutions require non-anxious leaders. Effective leadership depends on being able to separate your personal anxieties from the issues that affect your church or organization. Based on the book, Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety, this course will provide you with a basic understanding of how to begin the journey toward becoming an effective, non-anxious leader. Learn why understanding your own family of origin is the key to effective leadership, what you can do to grow in this capacity, and the most important characteristic of effective leaders.
This course consists of a series of brief recorded presentations that can be viewed at your convenience within the timeline of the course. Interaction with the instructor and other students is facilitated through online discussion threads. There will also be three live online discussions with dates and times to be determined. These sessions will be recorded for students who are unable to participate. Live participation or viewing of recorded sessions is required for CEU credit.
The course includes a PDF a copy of Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety by Jack Shitama.
Other resources to get the most out of this course (but not required) Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue and Friedman’s Fables, both by Edwin Friedman.
Successful completion of this course results in 3.0 CEU’s.
Course dates: October 7-November 3, 2024
FREE to lay and clergy members of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conferences.
Reviews
"This course helped me to prepare for individual conversations with persons whose anxiousness had impacted my effectiveness. As a result of self-examination in light of self-differentiation and triangulation, I was able to be effective in managing myself as non-anxious and clear in direction."
"I was able to apply the concepts of this course immediately as I communicate and navigate leading people of the congregation."
“I feel this course was the most interesting I have taken thus far. I could see myself becoming anxious at times, now I know I will take a second before responding to others and I will listen to the other side completely before I make any response to their concern, or input of what they need. This course has also helped me find who I am by showing me where I need to be. I was asked to take on another church starting July 1 and I was very anxious about that until I got involved with this course. I have found myself fitting in with the new church only after two services and feeling very comfortable with all the people there. Thank you for such an amazing course.”
Anxious times and anxious institutions require non-anxious leaders. Effective leadership depends on being able to separate your personal anxieties from the issues that affect your church or organization. Based on the book, Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety, this course will provide you with a basic understanding of how to begin the journey toward becoming an effective, non-anxious leader. Learn why understanding your own family of origin is the key to effective leadership, what you can do to grow in this capacity, and the most important characteristic of effective leaders.
This course consists of a series of brief recorded presentations that can be viewed at your convenience within the timeline of the course. Interaction with the instructor and other students is facilitated through online discussion threads. There will also be three live online discussions with dates and times to be determined. These sessions will be recorded for students who are unable to participate. Live participation or viewing of recorded sessions is required for CEU credit.
The course includes a PDF a copy of Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety by Jack Shitama.
Other resources to get the most out of this course (but not required) Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue and Friedman’s Fables, both by Edwin Friedman.
Successful completion of this course results in 3.0 CEU’s.
Course dates: October 7-November 3, 2024
FREE to lay and clergy members of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conferences.
Reviews
"This course helped me to prepare for individual conversations with persons whose anxiousness had impacted my effectiveness. As a result of self-examination in light of self-differentiation and triangulation, I was able to be effective in managing myself as non-anxious and clear in direction."
"I was able to apply the concepts of this course immediately as I communicate and navigate leading people of the congregation."
“I feel this course was the most interesting I have taken thus far. I could see myself becoming anxious at times, now I know I will take a second before responding to others and I will listen to the other side completely before I make any response to their concern, or input of what they need. This course has also helped me find who I am by showing me where I need to be. I was asked to take on another church starting July 1 and I was very anxious about that until I got involved with this course. I have found myself fitting in with the new church only after two services and feeling very comfortable with all the people there. Thank you for such an amazing course.”