Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. -John 4:7
How to get started
Trained Michigan Conference facilitators, coaches, consultants and mediators are ready to assist ministry leaders, ministry teams, committees, paid and unpaid leaders, congregants, small group ministries, and more. Service fees and expenses are the responsibility of the local church.
To learn more, please contact Rev. Jodie Flessner
Resolving issues in the church family
In faith communities we live in connection with one-another, much like a family. When we don’t know what to do with difficult issues, we fall back to what we know – how we learned to deal with conflict growing up in our most important relationships, our families of origin.
Change in Real Time: Reflections on the scripture
The initial shock of a sudden change requires an equal surge of quickness. Responding quickly keeps negative impacts of the crisis from becoming overwhelming. Even as anxiety and contagions continue, we can flip the switch, by attending to our thinking and awakening our capacity for creative problem solving.
Most Frequently Requested Services.
- Healthy Congregations Workshops. Focusing on the least anxious person in the relationship is often the best approach to improving relationships. These workshops focus on creating a mutual valuing of oneself and others for long-term healthy relationships. Congregation resilience catalysts are ready to assist.
- The Rule of Christ: Applying Matthew 18. A communication workshop on how to use Christ’s directive of first going directly to the person who has caused harm. For any mix of congregants, leaders and guests. The content is intended for everyone in a faith community. The design is adapted to the intended audience.
- Behavioral Covenants for Congregations and Ministry Teams. Intended for new and long-time teams or groups to learn how to define ideal ways participants intend to relate to one another.
- Mediation for individuals, ministry teams or the entire congregation. A process of creating protected space for everyone to be heard regardless of whether or not conflict is present. Once people feel heard, they are more likely to be ready to engage in creative conversation and strategic planning.
- Restorative Conferencing. Designed for highly conflicted environments, restorative conferencing focuses on each participant responding to specific questions without interruption: What has or is happening? Who was hurt or harmed? What could be done to repair the hurt or harm?