Healthy Congregations Self-Care Workshops

Free workshops for clergy, clergy spouses, and church staff.

2012 Schedule | Topics | CEUs | Why Self-Care?

The Servant Leadership: Personal & Professional Self-Care Workshop for clergy, clergy spouses, and church staff provides a structured opportunity for individuals to examine their current choices within the mental/emotional, physical, social, and spiritual health areas. Led by trained professionals and church leaders, the workshop encourages discussion and self-examination while providing information and collaborative support. The end product of the workshop, a personal Self-Care Covenant, provides participants with a structured plan for one or more behavioral and/or environmental changes to improve their personal health.

For 2012, the Self-Care Workshops are offered in either online or in-person formats, both providing a total of eight participation hours and covering the same material. The online workshop format consists of four 2-hour sessions using an electronic meeting room format with no travel required. The in-person workshop format consists of either one 8-hour day or two 4-hour sessions on consecutive days.

Questions? Contact presenter Judy Johnston at jjohnsto@kumc.edu or 316-293-1861.

Schedule of workshops

Online workshops currently available in February and March - each workshop consists of four 2-hour online sessions - no travel required!

Mondays 1:30-3:30 pm - February 20, February 27, March 5, and March 12 [Register Now]

Tuesdays 10 am-Noon - March 6, March 13, March 20, and March 27 [Register Now]

The workshops are offered at no charge, but pre-registration is required. Registration closes one week before the first session, so register early!

Topics to be covered include:

Self-care and the roles of clergy
What does leadership have to do with self-care?
Mental/emotional self care
- Stress Management
- Healthy Boundaries
- Expression versus Repression
Spiritual self-care
- Pastoring is a dirty job!
- Paul's Instructions
- Personal Spirituality versus Professional Responsibility
Social self-care
- Theological Framework for Social Health
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Finding or Developing your Social Support
Physical self-care

Understanding Metabolic Syndrome
Strategies for Managing Eating
Controlling Your Environments
Increasing Sleep and Water

Each participant will receive a notebook--for use during and after the workshop--which includes self-examination tools, encourages reflection and journaling, and includes the Self-Care covenant worksheets.

Continuing education credits

This workshop has been approved for 0.7 continuing education credits for clergy who participate in the entire workshop. Certificates will be mailed to participants. Health care professionals who wish to apply for continuing professional education credits may request the agenda, bio-sketches of the presenter, and a certificate of completion that they can use to apply for CEUs.

Why Self-Care?

Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God; obeying Him and holding fast to Him; for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob. Deuteronomy 30: 19-20

We are constantly presented with choices that either enhance or detract from our overall health and well-being. When we are not healthy in body, mind, and spirit together, we are less than what God intended us to be and are less available to do the work to which God has called each of us in ministry. To deny interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit -- or to shortchange any aspect of our lives is to deny the fullness of what God has called each one of us to be. To recognize the inseparability of our complete nature and to operate from that center is to lead from the soul.