Director of Training
Principal Trainer: Rob Voyle
- Episcopal priest
- Psychologist
- Executive Coach
Rob is an accomplished speaker and trainer. Participants consistently rate his training programs as:
"one of the best workshops I've attended in years"
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Humorous, and Healing
approach to training
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Grievance Procedure
The Appreciative Way
The Appreciative Way, is
Rob and Kim Voyle's synthesis of:
- The practice and philosophy of Appreciative Inquiry
- The work of Milton Erickson and his students
- Positive Psychology
- Compassion as the agent of transformation
- Contemplative Spirituality
Discover the essentials of the
Appreciative Way in this fast
read format book by Rob and
Kim Voyle.
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Assessing Skills and
Discerning Calls
Contents:
- Theological Perspective of the Search Process
- Overview of Appreciative Inquiry
- Conducting a Congregational AI Summit
- Developing Job Requirements
- Evaluating Supplemental Written Questions
- Evaluating a Structured Interview
- Checking References and Past Performance
- Assessing Work Samples Such as Preaching and Celebrating
- Discernment; Vestry Interviewing and Simulated Vestry Retreat Exercises
Features:
- Readily Adaptable to Specific Parish Needs
- Copyright Licenses Available for Congregational Use
- Augments Adjudicatory and National Church Procedures
Search Consultancy
Use the Appreciative Way to coach a congregation through their search for a new leader.
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Clergy Search Consulting
Continuing Education
We are approved sponsors of Continuing Education for Psychologists and Professional Counselors through the APA and NBCC.
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Continuing Education
Please contact Dr. Robert Voyle, if you have questions regarding the suitability of a program to meet your continuing education needs.
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Transforming Conflict Management into
Compassionate Collaboration:
The problem in the world is not that there is too much conflict.
The problem is that there is too little collaboration
for the benefit for all of humanity.
In this 2.5 day training participants will learn:
- Learn appreciative strategies to grow places of collaboration in the midst of conflict.
Participants will learn to use the Coaching Spiral to find places of agreement and collaboration.
- To use the three energies of compassion, tenderness, fierceness, and mischievousness to transform conflicted situations.
- How to remain self-differentiated, compassionate, and resourceful in the midst of conflict.
Rather than teaching you about conflict,
this program will teach you how to
stay personally grounded and professionally equipped
to lead people from conflict to collaboration.
The Folly of Managing Conflict
Because it is impossible to work effectively to reduce the presence of an undesired or negative situation, conflict management makes little sense. While some conflict is inevitable in confronting injustice and inequality, most church conflicts are unnecessary and often painful distractions from the tasks of proclaiming the Gospel. At its best, managing conflict is a temporary way station but it will not lead to lasting, sustainable, transformation.
Many of the appreciative strategies we teach are designed to create collaborative transformational change which minimizes the potential for conflict. However as consultants we are continually asked to create appreciative responses for people who are already in conflict and this program is designed to appreciatively resource people in the midst of conflict.
We are also committed to living compassionately as agents of transformation. In this training we will use the three-fold understanding of compassion consisting of tenderness, fierceness, and mischievousness to develop unique compassionate responses to ourselves and others as we transform conflict into collaboration.
Eligibility
This program is built on the core understanding of Appreciative Inquiry and is open to Clergy and Laity who have completed the Clergy Leadership Institute Appreciative Inquiry training.
Who Should Attend This Program
- Clergy and Church Leaders.
- Clergy engaged in transitional ministry.
- Psychologists, Consultants and Counselors
who work with clergy and churches in conflict.
Continuing Education Credit
This program qualifies for 15 contact hours of continuing education credit.
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Continuing Education Programs
Learning Objectives
- To provide participants appreciative inquiry based strategies to grow collaboration in the midst of conflict.
- To provide participants with an incarnational model of identifying and joining in the life-giving core of a system in conflict.
- To help participants create a robust self-image that is authentic, reflective, reliable, and responsive to others, especially in the midst of conflict.
Workshop Format
The workshop will typically be conducted in a retreat setting with:
- Didactic presentations
- Practice and experiential exercises
- Time for personal reflection and synthesis
Typical Workshop Schedule:
The following is a typical workshop schedule. The exact schedule may vary depending on location.
For each specific program a flyer with dates, schedule times, and continuing education hours can be found on the training schedule page.
This program usually starts after lunch on the third day of the appreciative inquiry training.
Day 3:
1:30-3:15 pm Session 8
3:15-3:45 pm Walking Meditation and Reflection
3:45-5:30 pm Session 9
Day 4:
9:00-12:00 Session 10
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:15 pm Session 11
3:15-3:45 pm Walking Meditation and Reflection
3:45-5:30 pm Session 12
Day 5:
9:00-12:00 Session 13
Specific times and costs may vary depending on the sponsoring organization. Please check the schedule and registration page for additional workshop specific information.
Note: The above schedule includes meals for commuters. When residential accommodation is provided, residential participants will also be provided with Breakfast and Supper during the course of the week.
Costs for 2009
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Tuition Fee
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Early Bird 4 weeks before session:
Within 4 weeks of session:
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$375
$425
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Participants who register at the same time for the consecutive Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry and The Introduction to Interim Ministry program will receive a $50 discount.
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Cancellation Policy
Accommodation
Accommodation and facility use fees are extra and are dependent on the training locations and will be specified on the registration forms. Meals between sessions are typically provided for commuters.
Presenter
Rob Voyle is an ordained Episcopal priest, psychologist, and coach. He is the Director of the Clergy Leadership Institute. Rob's parish ministry of over 20 years was primarily in the field of Interim Ministry. He is the organizer of the
Transitional Ministry Network and is a past coordinator of the National Association of Episcopal Interim Ministry Specialists.
Rob is the originator of AIM which is the result of his twenty years of experience in interim ministry and organizational consultation.
Registration for Workshop
To register for the workshop please go to the training schedule and select register for the appropriate workshop. For additional information please contact
Rob Voyle
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What Participants 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's combination of organizational savvy, teaching skills, theological & spiritual integration, and ability to rapidly build supportive, learning communities is quite simply the best in any of
the churches today.
Gray Temple, Episcopal Priest, Author & Coach
After 45 years in the pastoral ministry and attending three events led by Rob Voyle, I have finally learned a better way to help church leaders help themselves and the people they serve.
John Wilkerson, Director: Church Leadership Coaching & Consulting
Rob's appreciative coach training helped me to rethink the way I approach and provide
therapy; Thanks!
Dr. George Moses, Pastoral Counselor
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 serving North America
"I have been fully engaged emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Thank you for touching me at the core of my being."
M.E. Member of the UCC Church.
"Of all the training I have been to, your notes are the ones I keep coming back to time and again for practical resources."
P.W. Conference Pastor.
Rob's training is full of heart, wit, and passion.
E.R. Executive Coach
Rob's educational model brings body, mind and spirit together. I have been challenged intellectually, transformed spiritually, touched emotionally, gathering in communally. He came into my life at just the right time.
Jean Holmes, Presbyterian Pastor
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