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Conflict to Collaboration

Creating Cultures
of Excellence

Appreciative Inquiry Based Guide to Mutual Ministry Reviews

Templates and Worksheets
For Congregations
Individual Performance
Coaching Strategies

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Teaching Congregations
How To Forgive

Teaching Forgiveness

Practical Processes to Teach People How to Forgive
Five Sermon Outlines
Five Adult Forums with Exercise Protocols and Scripts

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Restoring Hope

Practical Appreciative Inquiry based strategies to effectively resolve grief and resentment.

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Clergy Search Resource

Over 380 pages of detailed strategies to Assess clergy skills and Discern Calls.

Now available as an online library.

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Welcome to Yes!³

Yes!³ is designed to help you
grow an appreciative culture
within your congregation by
helping parishioners create
a purpose centered life
in which they can say:

  Yes! To God
  Yes! To Their Neighbor
  Yes! To Them Self

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Transitional Ministry Resources

This page has links to resources for Transitional Ministry Resources.

Interim Ministry Articles
These brief articles were written by Rob Voyle, and cover a variety of topics of interim ministry.
One Size Doesn't Fit All
This article describes a mechanism for developing specific ministries for interim situations rather than relying on one model of ministry to be used in every situation.
Ensuring Change is a Blessing: Appreciatively Leading Transitions
This is a chapter included in the Rev.Molly Dale Smith's book Transition: A Time of Opportunity.
Transitional Ministry Network
The Transitional Ministry Network is an affiliated group of the Clergy Leadership Institute and provides resources for Clergy engaged in Transitional ministry, including a positions open service.

Appreciative Interim Ministry Training

The Clergy Leadership Institute has developed a year-long Certificate in Appreciative Interim Ministry (AIM) training program that is a unique blend of

Appreciative Inquiry
Organizational Psychology
Transitional Leadership Theory
Theological Reflection

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Clergy Search Consulting Training

In addition to training Transitional Ministry specialists we also provide appreciative inquiry based resources for consultants and adjudicatory personnel who are assisting congregation in their clergy searches. and search committees.

We teach consultants and congregations how to use the Appreciative Way to:

Create and facilitate an Appreciative Inquiry summit to develop a congregational profile.
Establish the job specifications for the new clergy person.
Assess the candidate's skills with respect to the job specifications.
Discern a call from a qualified list of candidates.

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What Participants Say

Rob's combination of organizational savvy, teaching skills, theological & spiritual integration, and ability to rapidly build supportive, learning communities is quite simply the best in any of the churches today.
Gray Temple, Episcopal Priest, Author & Coach

From Conflict to Collaboration

Creating Cultures of Excellence

Teaching Congregations How To Forgive