institute for missional directions

IMD consultations, retreats and workshops

Core Competencies:  Every consultation is as unique as our clients and the situations in which they live and work.  As a result we have always customized our work to meet the unique needs of our clients rather than relying on "canned" or "out of the box" processes.  These areas represent the varieties of skills and themes which have informed our consultancies. Transition, Development and Change Processes Organizational Formation and Behavior Coaching: Encouraging and mentoring leaders Decision and Discernment Skills Vision and Mission Development Group Processing and Corporate Discernment Conflict Transformation Leadership Development Public Speaking and Professional Presentations Spiritual Formation Adult Education and Curriculum Development

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Conflict:

• Having Fun with Conflict: Role Plays & Conflict Transformation Skill Development
• Conflict Transformation
• Conflict and Unprocessed Grief
• Classical Temperaments and Congregational Process
• How to Fight Fair: Christians Approaching Conflict Situations
• How Does Your Church Communicate?
• When Sheep become Rams: Understanding Conflict and Intervention Styles and Approaches

Leadership and Systems:

• Learning to Listen: Quality Decision-Making and Discernment Skills
• Management and Leadership: Getting the Dance Steps Right
• Life-long Learning
• Polarity Management: Keeping Creative Tension
  
• Churches that Make a Difference (Seminary Without Walls, taught with Bruce Swanson)
• Authority and Accountability in Systems
• Self-Discipline: Managing Work, Health, & Fun

Core Practices for Missional Leaders:

• Planning for Irony: Postmodernism and Organization Expectations
• Too Many Voices in My Head: Understanding the Pastor Congregation Relationship

Whole-life Stewardship and Ministry Practice:

• Developing Life Plans: Physical Fitness and Mental Acuity
• Identity and Calling: Making Sense of Where You Are and What God Wants to Do with You
• Spiritual Formation and Adult Faith Development
• Lifestyle Stewardship
• Preaching in a Postmodern Culture: Preaching as Dialogue

Missional Development:

• Mission for the Neighborhood: Making Organizational Mission and Corporate Activities in the Community Synchronize
• Interim Ministry in a Missional Context
• Missional Ecclesiology
• Missional Church and Missional Leader Readiness
• Film as a Missional Lens to Contemporary Culture
• The Exodus Church: Getting on into the Missio Dei
• Dwelling in the Word: The Spiritual Foundation for Congregational Discernment
• Missional, Emergent, and Liminal Leadership Networking
• Making the Missional Turn
• Postmodernism and Evangelism

Biblical Studies:

• Biblical Whining: Or, How to Lament Like a Psalmist
• Church History
• Old Testament and New Testament Review
• Creeds and Confessions in Ecumenical Dialogue
• The Posties Made Easy: Post-Modernism, Post-Constantinianism, Post-Foundationalism
• Hope from Unlikely Sources: A Study in Ecclesiastes