Most clergy know it’s important to be trauma informed to better minister to their congregations. But what about addressing their own trauma—sometimes caused by the very people they are called to lead?
Each year, Bishop Todd asks every C4SO clergy person to attend an online Clergy Professional Development Training that equips and empowers them for healthy ministry. This year, he invited Nicholas Rowe, PhD, and Sheila Wise Rowe, MEd, authors of Healing Leadership Trauma: Finding Emotional Health and Helping Others Flourish, to speak to the emotional struggles of leaders who are often isolated and suffering in silence. This 90-minute training will offer encouragement, prayer and therapeutic tools to help leaders begin to face their pain and heal.
Clergy Training: Healing Leadership Trauma
Thursday, May 22 (New Date!)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT
Zoom link
About Nicholas Rowe
In addition to teaching leadership at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Dr. Nicholas Rowe has spent decades in senior leadership roles in higher education and nonprofit organizations. He has also consulted about cross-racial and cross-ethnic reconciliation and conflict resolution and provided pastoral counseling and spiritual direction for reconciling communities in the United States and South Africa.
About Sheila Wise Rowe
Sheila Wise Rowe, MEd, provides counseling and spiritual direction to abuse and trauma survivors and to emerging and established leaders in the United States. She ministered to unhoused and abused women and children in South Africa, where she taught Christian counseling and trauma-related courses, and was also a lay pastor for a decade.
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