Global Majority Heritage Ordinand & Curate Leader: Effective Conversations

Welcome to the Global Majority Heritage Ordinand and Curate Leadership: Effective Conversations event! Join us at St Mellitus College for a day filled with insightful discussions and practical tips on how to have impactful conversations in your role as an ordinand or curate. This in-person event will be facilitated by experienced consultant, Alex Pett from Riverside Leadership, and interactive sessions to help you enhance your communication skills and build meaningful connections. Don't miss out on this opportunity to grow as a leader.

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About the day

In any group setting there is a power dynamic. For any leader, there are questions to consider, such as what do we mean by power, and what is our relationship to this word? Who has more or less power? Who is leading and who is following and why? What are the sources of this perceived or real power or potential lack of power?

Navigating this well as a leader or a minister requires both an interior and exterior awareness. The interior awareness is knowing your personal relationship to power, race, gender and class. The exterior awareness is the ability to read the dynamics, to read the room and the capability to influence.

This is a large and complex topic, so on this day we want to create a safe space for Global Majority Heritage ordinands or recently ordained ministers to explore these challenges, with a particular emphasis on how to have effective conversations to deploy your leadership when the power dynamic may be challenging.

We will:

• Develop a shared understanding of the dynamics and challenges you are facing.
• Use some frameworks that help map the dynamics and make sense of them.
• Share an approach to leadership conversations that helps you be authentic in your communication whilst minimising defensive reactions in others, can help you step into your personal authority and know what is required to get the best possible outcome from an interaction.
• We’ll apply these insights to your own situations, practice the conversational tools and do live coaching.

You should leave the day with some additional ways of reading the room to inform your personal leadership actions, with specific skills for preparing and navigating conversations, and hopefully with a sense of the deep value your leadership has to offer the church.

About Alex Pett

Alex leads River Leadership, a small leadership development consultancy working primarily with senior leaders and their teams. With his associates, he works with clients across the health, education, and corporate sectors and with church leaders. He was formerly head of leadership and talent in two FTSE 100 firms and started his work with leaders back in 1996. He initially trained as a secondary school teacher, but during his time in schools, he became more interested in the dynamic between the headteachers and their staff. This led to a career move from teaching to leadership development.

He is a part of Christchurch Clevedon and currently serves as one of the churchwardens. His early faith experience was through the Catholic Church, then as a part of Revelation church in Chichester in the Pioneer network for 12 years prior to worshipping in the Church of England since 2003. He has worked with St Mellitus to support the leadership formation programme since 2012.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St Mellitus College, 24 Collingham Road, London, United Kingdom

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