Differences surrounding moral and social issues have created frictions and challenges for many faith communities and leaders.
Resetting the Table’s sought-after workshop equips religious leaders with tools to support faith communities to listen and speak across differences with honesty, dignity, and grace.
The program provides participants with road-tested exercises they can bring back to their own institutions as well as a chance to experience and model rich dialogue across differences among participating faith leaders.
Objectives:
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Learn and practice two skills for constructive communication across differences with customized coaching
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Experience dialogue across differences within a denominationally diverse group of fellow faith leaders
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Learn tools and exercises you can replicate in your community and networks
Join us December 7 & 8th from 2:00-4:30 on zoom for this powerful, hands-on workshop. Registration is still open.
.“This is the best training on listening I’ve had… This program took me from a place of knowing my conflict-avoidance style was not the best way to having the tools to know how to move forward in a different way. I’d always heard how important it is to allow conflict to exist, but no one has ever been so clear as to how to do that in ways that feel life-giving more than threatening… This has the potential to be life-changing for a community. But only if done with skill. Looking back on 30 years of parish leadership, I see now that opening up more conversation on difficult issues would have been possible and healthy.” – Jackie, Episcopal Pastor, Ohio
“I have been so disheartened by the divisions in our country (and my local community) that I simply avoid sharing some of my strongest feelings. This training has helped me reconsider and re-think how the church should be the one place where such listening and engagement should be occurring and modeled for others. We live in such a polarized time. Resetting the Table served as experiential education for me – a vision of what can be experienced when we dive into listening and release our fear and presumed divisions.” – Doug, Baptist Pastor, Georgia
“Resetting the Table is truly a gift to the American people in this time of crisis in our nation’s history….RTT has been life-giving in my struggle to figure out how to engage the faith community in meaningful conversations that restore the sense of the common good for all people.” -John, ELCA Pastor, Wisconsin
