Breaking Through: Leadership & Congregational Practices for Sustaining Change & Spiritual Vitality

The seminar is scheduled to begin at noon with lunch on the first day and end after lunch on the last day.

How do you get a congregation from "stuck" to "thriving"?   

Join Alban senior consultant Larry Peers for a 3-day seminar exploring how to overcome common patterns and dynamics that keep leaders and congregations from "breaking through" to becoming vital centers for spiritual growth and ministry in their communities.

What are some of those patterns that keep pastors and congregations 'stuck' -- unable to sustain the necessary changes and practices for vital congregational life? 

• Congregations can get stuck in problem-solving instead of creating what they want to have happen. 
  
  
• Congregations attempt to resolve the common polarities in congregational life rather than manage them. 
  
  
• Congregations can become oblivious to the competing commitments and big assumptions that impede their capacities to do what they know they must do in order to thrive as spiritual leaders and centers for spiritual growth. 
  
  
• Congregations can become so inward looking that they miss the impetus for change in the communities and world around them. 
  
  

This exciting new seminar is being held at the inspiring Franciscan Renewal Center located on 25 acres in scenic Paradise Valley just 20 minutes from the Phoenix Sky Harbour Airport.

It draws on insights and practical applications to congregational leadership from many persons and disciplines: (1) Recognizing and overcoming the “immunity to change” (Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey)  (2) Understanding the dynamics of the path of least resistance” (Robert Fritz) (3) Applying the work of  polarity management, narrative therapy and recent leadership development work on moving beyond impasse to our own congregational and leadership challenges.

You will go away able to make practical application to congregational leadership from theories and accompanying practices on “immunity to change,"  structural dynamics, polarity management, narrative therapy and professional development work on moving beyond impasse. 

Don't miss this opportunity!

About Larry Peers 

Larry Peers  is a senior consultant, clergy coach and seminar leader with the Alban Institute, with expertise in whole systems strategic planning, congregational growth and change, clergy coaching, and conflict management. He works with congregations and their leaders in times of change, transition, and renewal.  He has also served on the adjunct faculty of Harford Seminary. An ordained minister for over twenty years, Larry has served local congregations, worked as a director of congregational growth and research for a denominational national office, and served on a Sustaining Pastoral Excellence Program with clergy. He has doctorates in congregational studies from Harford Seminary and in organizational change from Pepperdine University, as well as specialized training in narrative therapy, ontological coaching and Appreciative Inquiry.