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An interactive day of learning and practising tools to help you navigate conflict in ways that transform your relationships, build your communities, and strengthen your witness in the world.

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The Church is called to be a reconciled and reconciling people making peace in a divided world.  But there’s often a gap between our aspirations and the daily challenges we face: backstabbing gossip and criticism, unhealthy triangulation, people arriving because of conflicts in other places, people leaving because of conflicts right here. Destructive conflict is hugely costly: personally, it affects our physical, spiritual and mental health, relationally it casts a long shadow, organizationally it is taxing on both financial and human resources and leads to missed opportunities and a compromised witness in the world.

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The good news is that things do not have to be this way! This interactive workshop looks at four things that help us to navigate conflict constructively:

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· A Biblical perspective of conflict and enemies

· A deeper understanding of the personal, relational, and organizational dynamics of conflict

· Practical tools to work with and through conflict

· Spiritual practices to sustain a commitment to reconciliation.

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This research-informed practical workshop is designed for boards, pastors, and ministry teams who want to be proactive not only about addressing conflict, but about cultivating cultures of peace.

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This Masterclass can be adapted to suit your context and needs in negotiation with our team. If you are interested in exploring possibilities with us, get in touch.

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About the Facilitator - Karen Kemp

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Karen’s interest in conflict goes right back to her childhood experience in a war zone and has only grown through a lifetime in cross-cultural missions, ministry, and leadership training. A Masters in Congregational Conflict, and a Doctorate in Leadership and Spiritual Formation are ways she’s made sense of her own experiences of conflict in life and ministry. The tools she teaches have been forged and refined in the heat of lived experience.

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Karen is an ordained Anglican priest who teaches pastoral theology at Laidlaw College and works as a senior coach, trainer, and consultant with the Centre for Church Leadership. She is married to Hugh, a Religious Studies teacher and author, they have three adult daughters, and an aging Labrador!