Friends,

Here are some of the confirmed and in process offerings to meet you in your deepening leadership practice! Some will be in-person only, some online only, and some hybrid events – and we are locating the in-person happenings around the Pacific Mountain region (BC/Yukon), and as well as in the Chinook Winds region (Southern Alberta).

Registration is almost ready, so consider this a Save The Date - an invitation to a fabulous union of learning, collegial community, and tending self and soul.

Faithfully,
Allison
LeaderShift Director

ONGOING

Theological Banquet with Janet Gear. This 5 video series, complete with live coaching and consulting with Janet Gear, is available for you and your community of faith to access at any time! leadershiftpm.ca/the-theological-banquet

SUMMER 2021

"What's Next Conversations"

Drop in to this weekly conversation hosted by Rev Andria Irwin (United Online) and Rev Randy Boyd (Rural Connect) to ask any of your pressing questions around a shift to integrated inperson/online minsitry. Technical questions, theological questions and questions like "how can I convince people to volunteer?" are all on the table.

• 10:30am - 12pm PT / 11:30am - 1pm MT each Wednesday through the summer, on Zoom.

• Email airwin@united-church.ca for the link. Drop Ins only! You set the agenda. 

JULY 14-16
AUGUST 16-21

Tech Tools and Testimony

• Online only

Workshop sessions on issues in hybrid ministry practice, and ‘return’ to in the building congregational experience. Coordinated by United Online and LeaderShift program leader Andria Irwin with additional workshop resource people.

SEPTEMBER

Evolving Faith

• Day-long, Hybrid Online/ In-person event in Vancouver

Festival of Faith

• LeaderShift will be a sponsor for the Northern and Cariboo event delayed due to pandemic. Planning committee is working on this offering now!

OCTOBER

Faith Leaders for such a Time as This

• Online

• 4 mid-week sessions, post-Thanksgiving (date to be confirmed)

This series returns for a third online series this time with Rev Kim Uyede-Kai, Right Relations minister in Shining Waters Regional Council.

OCTOBER 25-29

Total Clergy Wellbeing

• In-person only

• Naramata Centre

Mark Sundby, Mary Kay DuChene, Susan Nienaber and more! A five-day event for ministry personnel led by a team from LeaderWise – one of our international companion organizations. This event was offered several years ago and continues to be one of the most deeply appreciated events LeaderShift has ever offered. Costing and registration details being finalized now!

JANUARY 17-19, 2022

Renewing Leadership

• In-person only

• Loon Lake Lodge, Maple Ridge

Okokon Udon and Deborah Rundlet, music & worship Dawn Pemberton and Bev Brazier. A two-night retreat for you to spend time realigning around your essential call, competencies, character. This interactive small group retreat was postponed during the pandemic. We’ve shifted it from an online to an in-person retreat.

JANUARY 19-21, 2022

Wild Church and Land-based Experience Leader Training

• In-person only

• LoonLake Lodge, Maple Ridge

hosted by Wild Church BC team with primary leadership from Victoria Loorz, one of founders of Wild Church and the Seminary of the Wild. A time of deepening practice and developing skill to host your own Wild Church in your local area.

APRIL 2022

Second Annual Festival of Biblical Storytelling

• Online only

Cultivating Beauty: Worship Arts Festival

• Hybrid Online/In-person

A wonderful weekend postponed from 2020 for celebrating and deepening capacity for Beauty in all aspects of ministry. Lead Resource Marcia McFee – and many more!

also/ tentative/ in-process/ on the work table

• Follow up to Calls to the Church: Listening to the Wisdom of the Elders

• Mental Health First Aid training and Trauma informed pastoral practice

• Tentative Online Coaching for Congregational teams:

  • Worship arts with Marcia McFee

  • Adaptive Leadership practices with Susan Beaumont

  • Anti-racist white privilege with Angela Ma Brown

• Decolonization and developing allyship skills with IndigenEyes

• Chinook Winds hybrid events

• Rural Connect initiatives