Boundary Training for all CPC Clergy with Active Standing

 The Committee on Ministry Team invites all clergy with active standing to attend a Boundary Training. The covenant we have together regarding Boundary Training is that all active clergy complete training every three years.  If this applies to you, please sign up for this valuable training before the CPC Annual Gathering in Salem: 

Friday September 22, 2023 • 10 AM – 3:30 PM

10:00 – 12:30 – All participants
Lunch provided
1:30 – 3:30 – Two groups – parish and non-parish

Participant cost -- $100

Registration is easy, just use this link to complete your registration…

Our facilitator is Margaret Marcusen. Here is an overview of the content of the workshop:

 Managing boundaries in ministry is an ongoing challenge for clergy. This fully-interactive program will look at the many places where boundary issues can arise: time, money, sex, and relationships with members and colleagues (including predecessors/successors). Using a family systems perspective, we will talk about how to address these challenges in ways that can be life-giving for clergy and for their congregations. The program will include ways to develop a healthy self (one who has an appropriate sense of where I end and someone else begins) and will look at the many ways to be healthier and more joyful in ministry.

 Here’s what Frank Baldwin said: “Her approach to boundary awareness through the lens of Family Systems Theory was fresh, insightful, and really quite helpful. Reviews and evaluations were universally appreciative and positive, along the lines of ‘Best boundary training ever!’”

 Click this link for Margaret’s personal invite to you:   https://youtu.be/_mSy8e7_t9g 

Margaret Marcuson helps clergy get lighter and less burdened by their ministry so they can have more influence with less stress. Margaret speaks and writes on church leadership, and works with leaders around the U.S. and Canada as a teacher and coach. She has worked with ministers from 17 different denominations. Margaret is the author of Leaders who Last and Money and Your Ministry. She is a graduate of the Pacific School of Religion. An American Baptist minister, Margaret was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Gardner, Massachusetts, for 13 years. She lives in Portland, Oregon.