Upcoming Trainings & Webinars
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New Subscriber Webinar
This single-session, 1 1/2 hour, free webinar provides newly subscribing congregations and their leaders with an overview of our resources, how to access those resources and how to adapt them to their environments. Also offers an introduction to our unique take on theme-based ministry and the theology that inspires it. We leave time at the end for questions. DATES & TIMES: Offered two different times:
COST: FREE Please click on the buttons below to give us your contact information so we can send you follow up material after the webinar. |
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New Facilitator Training
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. Designed for new facilitators but also serves as a great tune-up training for long-time facilitators!
DATES & TIMES: Offered four times:
COST: $20 per participant Contact Susan Arnold, our Membership Director, for discount when a congregation sends five or more people Register by clicking on one of the buttons below. |
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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 group development:
It is highly recommended that participants take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATES & TIMES: 3 sessions, all on the last 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 the full 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. DATE & TIME: Monday, September 25, 7:30-9pm eastern time COST: $20 Contact Susan Arnold for discount when a congregation sends five or more people |
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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 for online use: - to fit the unique needs and interests of your group members, - to slowly introduce the model to members step by step, - to expand the number and types of groups you offer, - to weave spiritual discernment practices into other groups and meetings. This 1 1/2 hour webinar is here to help! DATE & TIME: Monday, November 27, 7:30-9pm eastern time COST: $20 Contact Susan Arnold for discount when a congregation sends five or more people |
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Advanced Facilitator Training - 5 Month Experiential Based (Sept. to Jan.)
This 5-session, once-a-month training runs from September to January and uses an experiential approach, with each monthly meeting run as a small group that follows the packet for the upcoming month. Our Team Lead, Rev. Scott Tayler, facilitates each group meeting. This allows participants to experience a “dry run” of the session they will be leading the following month. It is an entirely different way of approaching training. Instead of being told how to facilitate, group members learn through participation and watching Rev. Tayler model facilitation. Along the way, Rev. Tayler will pause to point out tips and group process.
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. It is highly recommended that participants take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATES & TIMES:
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Taste of Soul - How To Training (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. We highly recommended that individual take our New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 20 at 7pm ET / 6pm CT / 5pm MT / 4pm PT COST: $15 |
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Welcome to Becoming Orientation Webinar
This webinar is for those who have purchased or are interested in purchasing, Becoming, our coming of age curriculum. The webinar will cover the program’s distinctive components, implementation tips and any questions you have. This webinar is designed for those facilitating the program as well as those still deciding if they want to purchase the program. DATE & TIME: Saturday, August 5, Noon-1:30pm eastern time SIGN IN LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5857099120 COST: FREE, but please take a minute to click on the registration button below to register and give us your contact information so we know how many people to expect and can send you follow up material after the webinar.: |
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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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