Servant Leadership: Personal and Professional Self-Care train-the-trainer workshop, May 6

Like air passengers responsible for the care of others depending upon them, instructed to first don oxygen masks themselves before assisting their charges, persons involved in health ministries and in providing guidance and support for those within their congregations and communities must first attend to their own health and wholeness through effective self-care practices.

For those interested in learning more about both the value of and techniques for personal and professional self-care, and who would be willing to in turn share that information with others, a train-the-trainer workshop will be held May 6 at the Spiritual Life Center in Wichita.

The workshop is intended for:

• Clergy and lay members of Kansas UM churches
• Parish nurses and doctors
• Members of Healthy Congregations or Health & Wellness committees
• Health care professionals who are involved, or have a desire to become involved, in health ministry

Workshop objectives: what will you learn?
Participants will:

• Make the connections between spiritual, mental, social, and physical health
• Describe how Servant Leadership requires self-care
• Experience stress-management techniques
• Learn how to say "no"
• Discuss current knowledge and recommendations about nutrition, physical activity, water, and sleep
• Self-assess current health behaviors and choices
• Develop a personal mission statement and a self-care covenant with an accountability plan
• Take the first step in becoming workshop trainers for Kansas UM congregation
• The United Methodist Health Ministry Fund will underwrite costs of the workshop and will reimburse participant travel costs.

The Servant Leadership: Personal and Professional Self-Care workshop is a resource of the Healthy Congregations in Action initiative of the Kansas Area Healthy Lifestyles Advisory Committee in cooperation with the Health Fund.

For more information, including brochures and registration information, visit our website at www.healthfund.org or follow the links below. The registration deadline is May 3, so register today!

Information about the Self-Care workshop

Information about Healthy Congregations in Action, including the workshop and healthy lifestyles pilot programs