Upcoming Trainings & Webinars
New Congregational Subscriber Orientation
This 1 1/2 hour, free webinar provides newly subscribing congregations and their leaders with an overview of our resources, how to access them and how to adapt them to their environments. Understanding how our resources support and enhance church-wide theme-based ministry is also a major component of the webinar. Finally, we leave time at the end for you to ask questions about adapting and implementing our resources in your unique setting.
DATE & TIME: Saturday, August 10 Noon-1:30pm eastern time COST: Free but need to register to receive the read-ahead materials that come with the webinar |
New Facilitator Trainings (Offered 4 times, Aug & Sept)
This two-hour online training for new small group facilitators covers the Soul Matters facilitation model, our unique approach to deep and disciplined listening, tips for handling facilitation challenges and start up strategies. Soul Matters founder and Team lead, Rev. Scott Tayler, leads the training. Designed for new facilitators but also serves as a great tune-up training for long-time facilitators!
DATES & TIMES: Offered 4 different times:
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Advanced Facilitator Training - 3 Month Lecture Based (Sept-Nov)
This 3-session advanced facilitator training covers the three core stages of small group development:
Participants must take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATES & TIMES: 3 sessions, all on the 4th Monday of the month, September - November:
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Advanced Facilitator Training - Lecture Based
Getting Your Group Off the Ground (single-session event) This single-session, 1 1/2 hour training covers everything you need to know about getting groups off the ground, including covenant formation, start-up meetings, teaching the Soul Matters discernment practices, advertising, etc. If you don't have the time to take our 3-month, lecture-based advance training, this is great way to get the tools to help you kick off your group in the most impactful way. Soul Matters founder, Rev. Scott Tayler, leads the sessions in a lecture-oriented style, with room for questions.
Participants must take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATE & TIME: Offered twice:
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Advanced Facilitator Training - Lecture Based
Adapting Our Model (single-session event) There are many reasons you might want to adapt our Soul Matters small group model:
Participants must take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATE & TIME: Monday, November 25, 7:30-9pm eastern time COST: $20 per participant |
Advanced Facilitator Group - Five-Month Experiential Training
This five-session, once-a-month facilitator group is an experiential training, with each monthly meeting run as a small group. This approach is an entirely different way of training facilitators. Instead of being told how to facilitate, group members learn through participation and watching Rev. Tayler, our Team Lead, model facilitation. Along the way, Rev. Tayler pauses to point out tips and group process. This also allows participants to experience a “dry run” of the session they will be leading with their groups later in the month. After each 2 hour session, facilitators can stay on the call for an optional and more personalized troubleshooting and tips session with Rev. Tayler. This is a chance for facilitators to receive monthly support for the particular challenges they are wrestling with in the groups they run in their home congregations. In addition to training, this approach provides participants with personal spiritual nourishment as they bond and share with fellow facilitators from around the country.
We run two groups each fall. See below for the meeting days and time of each option. Participants must take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATE & TIME: Two different groups to choose from:
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Advanced Facilitator Group - Two-Month Experiential Training
This two-month advanced facilitator group is the same as our five-month experiential training above, just shorter. Both monthly meetings are run as a small group that follows the small group theme for that month. Our Team Lead, Rev. Scott Tayler, facilitates each group meeting. Like our 5-month groups, participants learn facilitation through participation and watching Rev. Tayler model facilitation. Rev. Tayler also pauses to point out tips and group process. Finally, after each 2 hour session, facilitators can stay on the call for personalized troubleshooting and tips.
Participants must take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATE & TIME: Two Meetings (3rd Tuesday of October and November):
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Specialized Training - Lecture Based
Taste of Soul (single-session event) This unique training teaches you how to run a "Taste of Soul" event at your church. Taste of Soul is a drop in meeting, usually held after Sunday service, at which people interested in joining a Soul Matters small group can experience one first hand, in an abbreviated form. Our Team Lead, Rev. Scott Tayler, leads the training. He will cover the structure of these meetings, best practices, facilitating tips and marketing strategy.
It is one of the most effective ways to get people excited about joining your small groups! We highly recommended that you take our New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 18 7-8:30pm eastern COST: $20 per participant |
Recordings of Past Webinars
A number of our past webinars are available, many of them free. Topics include: new subscriber orientation, adapting our small group model, social media tools, crossing paths, vibrant music on small budgets, leading meditation with children and an intro to our Starting Point newcomers program.
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For more information contact Susan: [email protected]. Soul Matters Sharing Circle LLC