Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Christian Practices Workshops from the Alban Institute
In 2008, Alban is rolling out a new series of Christian Practices Workshops. Each of these Alban seminars focuses on one of the specific, intentional ways that individuals and congregations bring their beliefs to life through their commitments they share and the things they do together. Prayer, worship, forgiveness, weekday spirituality, hospitality, compassion, or leadership in congregations and in daily life all are activities that deepen our relation to what we hold sacred. Such Christian practices “form a way of life” (through which faith takes form and becomes embodied in the world we share with others.)
Weekday Spirituality: Unleashing Faith in Daily Life
FEB. 29, 2008 - MARCH 1, 2008Facilitator: Wayne Floyd
Location: Marywood Center for Spirituality, Jacksonville, FloridaPeople of faith are hungry today for new approaches to affirm the connection between spiritual life as celebrated in Sunday worship or Sabbath services and the realities of the weekday world. In addition to their essential contributions to the vitality of congregational life, people engage in everyday expressions of faith that are the great untapped resource for the church of the 21st century. In their work settings, communities, and family lives, people are ready for their weekday spirituality to be discovered and unleashed, with the capacity to renew if not reinvent the church.
Becoming a Praying Congregation: The Art of Teaching Spiritual Practice
JULY 15 - 17, 2008Facilitator: Jane Vennard
Location: Inn on Broadway, Rochester, NYMost people in congregations do not talk about prayer. Have you ever wondered why?
Do you long to be a part of a congregation - or lead a congregation - where prayer is a more comfortable part of what you do and how you talk with one another? Then this workshop is for you. It is designed for people who pray together in worship on Sundays, maybe ask others to pray for those who are in need, or begin meals with prayer, but who do not know how to talk about prayer with one another, or how to cultivate the spiritual practice of prayer for themselves, much less for others.
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Narrative Leadership in
Congregational Life
SEPT. 30 - OCT. 2, 2008Facilitator: Larry Peers
Location: Techny Towers Conference and Retreat Center, Techny, IllinoisThe narratives we tell about our own lives—and about the institutional-lives of the communities we share with others - help to bring into being the very realities they initially merely claim to describe. For this reason, “narrative” has become recognized as a way of
Approaching individual therapy
Describing ways that religious traditions get shared, and
Engaging in organizational leadership
This seminar connects the contemporary uses of narrative for personal and organizational change to the various forms of narrative work in faith communities.
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