TOPICS FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Some possible seminar topics may include the following, and are adapted to the particular needs of the client.

Leader Self-Awareness

- The person and the role
- Strengths and limitations
- Knowing one’s self
- Spirituality of leadership
- Leadership styles
- Spiritual gifts
- Personality type
- Active and contemplative in balance
- "Being" vs. "Doing"
- Disillusionment and the real
- Self-care and burnout prevention
- Leadership skills
- Risk management
- Boundaries and time management
- Congregational dynamics

Ministry and Culture

- Church and culture in the new millennium
- Responding to shifting demographics and the times
- Visioning for today’s parish community

Models of Ministry

- Challenges and joys of ministry
- Ministry in today’s context
- Collaboration
- Working with laity
- Sustainable ministry

Equipping the Laity

- Biblical foundations for the ministry of the laity
- Preparing clergy to work with the laity
- Empowering clergy and laity
- Preparing the laity for ministry
- Personality types and spiritual gifts
- Leadership styles
- Lay ministry - in the world
- Spiritual formation and development

Parish Life

- Empowering congregations
- Healing parish communities after crises
- Calling forth laity
- Managing transitions and change
- Fostering Spirituality

Interpersonal Relations

- Empathic Listening
- Interpersonal dynamics
- Understanding and relating to different personality types
- Dealing with difficult people
- Male/female relationships

Clergy Self-Care

- Joys and Challenges of Ministry
- Knowing one’s self
- Spirituality of leadership
- Emotions and the spiritual life
- Spiritual disciplines
- Balancing the real & ideal
- Time management
- Stress management
- Developing healthy ways of coping
- Personal boundaries
- The importance of rest
- Ministering responsibly
- Risk management – spirituality and practicality
- Peer support/accountability groups
- Networking and referrals
- Leaders training leaders
- The Eastern Christian clergy family—care for spouse, children

Liturgical Music

- Cantor Training
- Spirituality of Liturgical Music
- Liturgical Music and Youth
- Engaging Congregations
- The Role of Music in the Praying Community
- Liturgical music and the praying community
- The spirituality of liturgical music
- Liturgical Music Workshops and Training
- Music Ministry

Suzette Phillips, B.Sc. BMR (OT), B.Sc. (Gen.), M.A. (Th.), Ph. D (Th.).

Suzette is a mental health therapist and medical rehabilitationist for Alberta Health Services, an adjunct professor for the University of Alberta, and a sessional lecturer for Saint Paul University and Newman Theological College. Grounded in the traditions of both the Christian East and West as well as in the human sciences, she has taught university courses and...

Fr. Greg Zubacz, B.A. (Psychology/Criminology), LL.B., M. Cert. (Pastoral), B.Th. (Civil and Ecclesiastical), M.C.L/J.C.L., J.C.D., Ph.D.

Greg has worked in the regulatory and legislative fields for both the provincial and federal government, and acted as a consultant for the federal government.  His work experience includes being...

Melita Mudri-Zubacz, B.Th. (Eastern Christian Studies), M.A. (Th.) (Eastern Christian Studies).

Melita holds an M.A. (Th.) specializing in the history of congregational singing in the Eastern Slavic liturgical traditions. Melita taught liturgical singing at Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Ottawa, produced a Christmas CD with her students and published several articles dealing with...