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Flourishing in Ministry Midwest Series

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A Circle of Trust® Experience for Ministry Leaders

This is an invitation to step away from your daily work to explore your inner life, to reconnect with your calling and passion, and to join a global movement that believes that leadership begins from the heart of who you are. This is a different kind of leader development program. There are no assessments, instruments, or strategic planning workshops. Instead, the focus will be on building trustworthy relationships, with ourselves and the people in the circle, through a process that is intentionally ecumenical, cross cultural and multi-aged.

Flourishing in Ministry retreat series are a chance to be part of a group that includes both emerging (those in their first 10-15 years of ministry) and experienced leaders, coming together to cultivate a trustworthy experience of community. While we expect that the groups will have more emerging leaders, we welcome applications from those in any season of ministry. This program is rooted in the Circle of Trust® approach developed by Parker Palmer, led by trained facilitators (who are also experienced pastors and congregational leaders themselves) from the Center for Courage & Renewal.

The event series is underwritten by the Lilly Endowment’s Thriving in Ministry grant program. Rather than helping pastoral leaders build one-on-one relationships with experienced mentors, role models, and exemplars who have a slim chance of sharing the particulars of their ministry context, we will provide an experience/model of mutual mentoring based on our Circle of Trust® approach.

Flourishing in Ministry Event

DATES:
May 11-14, 2020
Nov. 9-11, 2020
May 10-12, 2021
Each retreat starts at 3:30 PM and ends with lunch.

VENUE:
Siena Retreat Center
Racine, WI

COST:
$1500 for all three retreats
$1400 if paid in full before first retreat