Clergy coaching resources
In addition to coaching sessions, I offer a range of paid and free resources to help you navigate your transition.
Books/workbooks
Are you trying to discern whether it’s the right time to look for a new call, or are you unsure how to tell your story effectively to search teams? This workbook for clergy provides reflection questions and tips for every step of the search and call process, all the way through to starting a new position well. Click here to purchase Sailing Uncertain Seas: A Workbook for Navigating the Search & Call Process (Second Edition).
Do you struggle to create margins in your life? This workbook for clergy provides a framework, reflection questions, and observations for designing a self-care plan. Click here to purchase Planning for Replenishment: A Guide to Creating Your Own Self-Care Strategy.
Ministers have incredibly important, wide-ranging roles in the lives of individuals and communities. That's why they need an extended pause after they have been in their roles for several consecutive years. Sometimes, though, it can seem like getting ready to be away is as much work as sticking around. This workbook provides a scaffolding – thus alleviating some of the mental load – for planning leave. The prompts will lead readers through thinking about what it is they need from leave and how to make that happen, how to bring the congregation along in planning, embracing, and debriefing the collective experience, and how to reflect back on time away to prepare for future renewal leaves. Click here to purchase Hitting the Refresh Button: A Workbook to Help Clergy Plan for Renewal Leave.
Are you looking for a way to think about the coming year? This planner is designed to help clergy focus on what is most important in their personal and professional lives and to name the behaviors and supports that will undergird that focus. It includes prompts for thinking through values and vocation (your own and your ministry setting's) and sustainable rhythms, planning pages for both liturgical seasons and seasons of the calendar, weekly planning pages (three different options, depending on how you frame your week) with reflection questions for the beginning and ending of each day, and reflection questions to help you look back on the year. Click here to purchase A Year of Intention: Reflection Prompts and Planning Tools for Clergy.
Liturgical/spiritual practice
2016 Advent reflection questions (printer-friendly PDF, color PDF)
Lenten prayer calendar for congregations (JPG, PDF)
All Saints’/Thanksgiving prayer calendar (printer-friendly PDF)
Coaching
Coaching call preparation sheet (PDF)
Coaching call reflection form (PDF)
Weekly calendar with reflection prompts (PDF)
Understanding the dynamics of various church sizes (PDF)
Pastoral tasks and congregational needs across the church life cycle (PDF)
Questions for reflection during conflict (JPG, PDF)
Confidence builders (JPG, PDF)
Mutual ministry review (PDF)
Tool for assessing wellbeing (PDF)
Exit interview outline (post)
Vacation preparation sheet (Word)
Wellbeing assessment (PDF)
