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2About the Advanced Clergy Clinic in Family Emotional Process
Schedule
Faculty
Guest Presenters
The Advanced Clergy Clinic meets three times
Richard Blackburn
is Executive Director of the
October 16, 2016 — Jim Herrington
each year for three successive days each time:
Lombard Mennonite Peace Center. He has broad
“Staying Calm When Leadership Takes You
experience as a trainer, mediator, and consultant
Off the Map”
October 16-18, 2017
with conflicted churches and their leaders. The
February 5-7, 2018
Jim Herrington, D.Min., has been a pastor for 45 years
congregational mediation model he developed
April 9-11, 2018
and has served as a denominational executive and a
represents a transformational approach, placed
pastor to pastors since 1989. He is the co-author of The
within the context of Bowen family systems theory.
Mondays: 10/16; 2/5; 4/9
Leader’s Journey: Accepting the Call to Personal and
For several years, he attended Edwin Friedman’s
1:00 p.m. – Introductory Input followed by
Congregational Transformation, a book that integrates
Post
Graduate
Clergy
Seminar
in
Family
Guest Presenter
Bowen theory and theological insights. In 2007 he co-
Emotional Process in Bethesda, MD. Richard also
5:30 p.m. – Supper (provided on site)
founded Faithwalking, a spiritual formation ministry that
6:30 p.m. – Guest Presenter
participated in the Postgraduate Program in
equips people and congregations to live missionally.
8:00 p.m. – Adjournment
Bowen
Family
Systems
Theory
and
Its
Applications at the Bowen Center for the Study of
Tuesdays: 10/17; 2/6; 4/10
February 5, 2017 — Emlyn Ott
the Family in Washington, D.C.
“Defining Self and Leading Faith Communities
9:00 a.m. – Input: Bowen Family Systems Theory
12:00 p.m. – Lunch (on your own)
in an Age of Yard Sales”
Bill Blank
is Associate Director of the Lombard
1:30 p.m. – Family of Origin Groups
Mennonite Peace Center. As an ordained minister
Emlyn A. Ott, D.Min., is on the faculty of Trinity Lutheran
5:00 p.m. – Adjournment
in the Mennonite Church, he has served as a
Seminary, Columbus, OH and serves as Executive
Wednesdays: 10/18; 2/7; 4/11
pastor and interim pastor for a number of years.
Director of Healthy Congregations, Inc. She has served
9:00 a.m. – Input: Emotional Process and
He has participated in the Postgraduate Program
as a parish pastor, campus pastor, pastoral counselor,
Congregational Systems
in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Its
seminary administrator and consultant. Intrigued by the
12:00 p.m. – Lunch (on your own)
Applications at the Bowen Center for the Study of
level of reactivity, massive change and passivity at
1:15 p.m. – Congregational Case Study Groups
the Family in Washington, D.C.
He has
national, judicatory and local contexts, she continues to
4:30 p.m. – Conclusion
experience as a mediator, trainer, and church
make use of Bowen theory and adaptive change thinking.
Location
consultant as well as providing coaching for
April 9, 2017 — Michael Kerr
pastors and church leaders from a Bowen family
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
“Advances in Bowen Theory”
systems theory perspective.
350 E. Madison Street, Lombard, IL
Michael E. Kerr, M.D., is a family psychiatrist. He trained
Prerequisites
Lombard is in the western suburbs of Chicago,
under and worked with Murray Bowen for more than 20
approximately 30 minutes by car from O’Hare and
years. He succeeded Dr. Bowen as Director of the
Participants in the Advanced Clergy Clinic will
Midway airports. A map and information for area
have completed LMPC’s basic Clergy Clinic in
Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in 1990, and
hotels will be sent with confirmation of registration.
has been Emeritus Director of the Bowen Center since
Family Emotional Process, attended the Advanced
Clergy Clinic in a previous year, or been accepted
2011.
He is co-author with Dr. Bowen of Family
Tuition
Evaluation (1988), and is writing a second book, Bowen
into the program on the basis of documented
Tuition for the series is $1,100 for registrations
background in Bowen family systems theory.
Theory: Defining a Self in Context.
received prior to September 18, 2017, and $1,200
Those who have not previously attended either
For Further Information
if received later. To register, return the registration
LMPC’s basic Clergy Clinic in Family Emotional
form with full payment. Cancellations are subject
Process or the Advanced Clergy Clinic may
Write:
Lombard Mennonite Peace Center
to a non-refundable administration fee of $100, if
complete and submit an application form to LMPC;
101 West 22nd Street, Suite 206
we receive notification prior to September 29,
it will provide a vehicle for documenting one’s
Lombard, IL 60148-4987
2017, or half of the registration fee, if notified prior
background in Bowen family systems theory.
Call:
(630) 627-0507 Fax: (630) 627-0519
to October 9, 2017.
Afterward there will be no
Contact LMPC for an application form.
E-mail:
refunds or credit for missed sessions, since family
of origin group leaders will have already been
Web Site:
hired.
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