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Appreciative Way in this fast
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Introducing Yes!3
Yes!3 is designed to help you
grow an appreciative culture
within your congregation.
Yes!3 equips you to teach
the Appreciative Way
and help parishioners create
a purpose centered life
in which they can say:
Yes! To God
Yes! To Their Neighbor
Yes! To Them Self
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Congregational Coaching
Our good friend and colleague Bishop Ed Leidel describes his development work with small congregations as congregational coaching which he defines as:
Congregational Coaching is finding God's synergy
in the midst of community.
Since we couldn't describe our work with congregations any better we decided to use his explanation. Ed goes on to describe his understanding of congregational coaching as an incarnational approach of entering into and joining with the congregation to discover the guidance, collegiality, and encouragement of the Holy Spirit. This contrasts the classical idea of a consultant as the expert advisor or authority who tells and directs people what to do.
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Congregational Coaching
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Congregational Advising
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Collegial
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Hierarchical
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Relational
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Directional
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Behind-the-scenes
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Up-front focus of attention
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Initiative is with congregation
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Initiative is with the advisor
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Hands-on helping process
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Distant micro-managing
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Discovers gifts
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Critiques failures
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Encourages
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Directs
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Synergetic
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"Shifts the chairs"
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Transformational
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Transitional
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Utilizes congregational leaders' innate gifts and resources
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Dependent on gifts and resources of the advisor
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Encourages mutual interdependence
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Creates cycles of dependence and isolating independence
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Generates hope
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Generates need for supervision
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One Size Doesn't Fit All
Because this appreciative approach to congregational coaching is incarnational it allows each congregation to develop unique responses to their local community needs.
Rather than imposing external ideas and programs the appreciative approach allows transformational solutions to arise from within the community. As such they are owned by the community and have their own internal motivation and are more likely to be locally relevant and sustainable.
Our Congregational Coaching Services
If you have questions about what would work best for you and your congregation send Rob an email and request a free consultation to explore what strategy would be of benefit to your community.
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What Clients Say
The Rev. Robert Voyle was invaluable to making our search process a success. He led the committee members in Appreciative Inquiry exercises to build up the relationships of the team members and to begin to articulate some common understandings of the core values of our diocese.
Rob coached us to keep a clear perspective of what we had discerned as the skills and gifts necessary for our next bishop and to let this guide our work. He was also at the other end of the telephone or email when specific issues came up that would be helped by his experience and knowledge.
Joanna Shreve, Co-Chair Diocese of El Camino Real Bishop Search Committee
Rob will enhance your ability to delight in yourself, your neighbor and God through his insightful, practical, loving, professionally grounded, appreciative and often mischievous coaching and
teaching skills; and that will make you a better leader and citizen in God's creation.
Ed Leidel, Episcopal Bishop and Congregational Coach in the Canadian Diocese of Huron
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