Adult learning and training services
Adult learning and training services
Alastair designs and leads adult learning and training on:
- Handling and transforming conflict, including communicating more effectively
- Understanding oneself better
- Understanding emotional process
Clergy support
Alastair provides work consultancy for individual church ministers, and ministry teams, to enable leaders to function sustainably and at their best. His approach draws on:
- Family systems theory, developed by Murray Bowen
- A coaching framework, having trained with 3D Coaching
- A profiling tool, the Friendly Style Profile
- Conflict theory and understanding, including power dynamics
Those Alastair typically works with are:
- Ministers stepping up to more senior roles
- Ministers experiencing a time of transition or a new stage of ministry
- Ministers facing a challenging or conflicted church context
- Ministers who want to reflect self-critically and continue growing
- Ministry teams which want to function more effectively as a group
Team-building and group facilitation
Alastair leads team-building workshops for ministry teams and leadership groups. The process involves each member of the team completing a profiling tool, the Friendly Style Profile, in advance. The workshop enables team members to affirm, appreciate and understand one another better, and to function more effectively as a team.
Alastair also facilitates meetings for groups and teams in situations where a difficult conversation is needed.
Being White
Alastair has co-developed, with Carey Haslam, a learning programme called Being White to assist white people in church leadership to address their white advantages, become more actively anti-racist and enable their churches to be more welcoming places for people of all ethnicities. The Being White programme has now been incorporated into the offerings of Reconciliation Initiatives.
Contact Alastair for more information