Part Two

Facilitator: Dr. Betty Pries
Staff Facilitators: Eun-Joo Park and Diane Matheson-Jimenez

By the high demand, “Where two or three are gathered, there is Jesus and Conflict” is back.

This workshop is to support and strengthen congregational lay leaders as well ministry personnel as they reflect on their church context, learn about congregational health, explore and identify their own community of faith’s path to healing and wellness, deepen their understanding of their own call to leadership, and discern God’s path for their churches.

Differences are normal – even essential for healthy human interactions and for listening carefully for God’s leading. One of the most important communication skills involves recognizing the misunderstandings, assumptions, and conflicts that develop in the space between a speaker’s intentions and the impact of the speaker’s words (or actions) on the receiver. This Part II session of Where Two or Three are Gathered, there is Jesus and Conflict! explores a foundational model of communication upon which healthy and effective dialogue can rest.

We hope you can join us!

About our Guest Speaker:

Dr. Betty Pries
With over 30 years of experience coaching, mediating, training, facilitating and consulting, Betty is highly regarded as a Conflict, Change, and Leadership Specialist. Betty specializes in working with complex challenges, supporting leaders, organizations and congregations to be at their best. Betty’s capacity to care deeply, listen well, and provide wise and thoughtful support allows her to help her clients engage in tough, meaningful, and important conversations, set directions, and achieve positive organizational change.

Betty is a specialist in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), leading anti-racism / anti-prejudice workshops, supporting EDI committees, reviewing and writing EDI-related policies, coaching leaders and offering support to organizations wrestling with EDI challenges.

Betty brings a wealth of experience to her work, having worked with a wide range of organizations, both nationally and internationally. Betty has extensive education, training, and experience in coaching, mediation, negotiation, consensus building, consultation, facilitation, and organizational health. As Co-Founder and CEO at Credence, Betty’s great joy has been the opportunity to mentor and support the growth of the Credence team. Betty has a PhD from the Free University Amsterdam on the topic of conflict transformation & spirituality. In 2021, Betty published a book, The Space between Us: Conversations about Transforming Conflict. She is a Chartered Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada and a member of the ADR Institute of Ontario. Betty is a regular instructor at the University of Waterloo.

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