Slideshow image
Save to your Calendar

A number of regular participants in Courageous Leadership joined us on Wednesday, March 20, for an online workshop, Advancing Equity: Applying Healing-centered Engagement to Your Leadership Practice: Pivot #2: Presence. This was the first in a four-part series, built on the seminal work of scholar and practitioner Dr. Shawn Ginwright:

While trauma-informed care offers an important lens to support [people] who have been harmed and emotionally injured, it also has its limitations....

What is needed is an approach that allows practitioners to approach trauma with a fresh lens that promotes a holistic view of healing from traumatic experiences and environments. One approach is called healing-centered, as opposed to trauma-informed. A healing centered approach is holistic involving culture, spirituality, civic action, and collective healing. A healing-centered approach views trauma not simply as an individual isolated experience, but rather highlights the ways in which trauma and healing are experienced collectively. The term healing-centered engagement expands how we think about responses to trauma and offers more holistic approach to fostering well-being.

Join us remotely via Zoom on Wednesday, May 15th, as we hear from Jill Beverlin, Jason O'Neill, and others who participated in the workshop. Let's learn together -- with an additional lens of coaching -- how this applies to all of our ministry contexts. We will also discuss faithful next steps.

To answer some commonly asked questions:

"Why are you still meeting?" "Don't become too familiar with loneliness. Community is a risk, but liberation depends on the collective. Who can you trust to hold you?" -- Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies

"How can I prepare?" Courageous leaders pay attention and listen actively. We invite you to bring a spirit of curiosity and openness to these gatherings and to all aspects of your life. What are you noticing? Where is Spirit moving? How are you being invited to participate in the work God is already doing, especially outside the walls of the building where the church often gathers?

"What if I'm not a group person?" Courageous leaders take calculated risks. We invite you to take a small step outside your comfort zone and allow yourself to be seen and witnessed. We can almost guarantee that you will be pleasantly surprised by the loving, caring, and nurturing nature of community in this time together.

Recordings from prior gatherings can be found here: https://www.elcacoaching.org/podcasts/media

Weekly on Wednesdays -- 9:00am Hawaii | 10:00am Alaska | 11:00am Pacific | 12noon Mountain | 1:00pm Central | 2:00pm Eastern | 3:00pm Atlantic

(Time zones may vary with Daylight Saving Time. We do our best to include other time zones as we understand them to be. Please double-check your time zone against the Central time noted. Times noted at the top of this page are in Central time.)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85394476190?pwd=VUh1UElEbXZoMnpheXc4S0llaG91dz09

Meeting ID: 853 9447 6190
Passcode: 466634