2010 Seminars from Alban

	March 9-11 (Ed White) Disciple Making Communities: Moving from Maintenance to Mission Marywood Center for Spirituality, Jacksonville, FL Tuition Cost: $449 ($499 nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $226, Double – $171, Commuter – $105 Join Alban consultant Ed White in this practical exploration of what it means for mainline churches to move out of the “membership business” and into the “disciple making business”.
	March 16-18 (Dan Hotchkiss) Board Leadership and Congregational Governance Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC Tuition Cost: $449 ($499 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $203, Double – $155, Commuter – $94 This seminar will help congregations move beyond frustrating and ineffective management of boards, clergy and staff.
	April 27-29 (Susan Beaumont) Building Staff Collegiality Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC Tuition Cost: $449 ($499 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $245, Double – $181, Commuter – $94 Participants in this highly effective seminar will examine the characteristics of a healthy team, learn how a staff progresses through stages of team development, and identify where groups tend to get stuck.
	May 4-6 (Larry Peers) Clergy Wellness: How to Balance Ministry and Life Techny Towers Retreat Center, Techny, IL Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $221, Double – $191, Commuter – $111 You will leave this workshop able to identify the current strengths and liabilities you bring to your ministry and thus with a clearer sense of yourself both professionally and personally.  Youwill be glad you decided to take care of yourself like this.
	May 19-20 (Alice Mann) Raising the Roof Techny Towers Retreat Center, Techny, IL Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $190, Double – $160, Commuter – $84 Join Alban senior-consultant Alice Mann, author of Raising the Roof: The Pastoral-to-Program Size Transition, to learn how to leaders in mid-size congregations can identify transition dynamics, address obstacles to growth, and lead a process of discernment about the congregation’s calling in relation to size and numerical growth.
	May 24-27 (Diana Butler Bass) Emerging Patterns in 21st Century Worship Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC Tuition Cost: $225 ($275 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $390, Double – $258, Commuter – $115 This four-day event will explore contemporary movements and patterns of spirituality emerging in Protestant worship and will offer participants an opportunity to enter into holy conversation with worship leaders and ministry colleagues.
	June 2-4 (Susan Beaumont) Inside the Large Congregation La Casa de Maria Retreat Center, Santa Barbara, CA Tuition Cost: $499 ($549 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $321, Double – $$269, Commuter – $131 This workshop is designed for Senior Pastors, Interim Pastors, Executive Pastors, Executive Directors, Middle Judicatory Leaders and Denominational Leaders who want to understand more about the unique dynamics of leading the large congregation.
	July 27-29 (Larry Peers) The Power of Story to Transform Your Leadership Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center, West Hartford, CT Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $203, Double – $203, Commuter – $25 This seminar connects the contemporary uses of narrative for personal and organizational change to the various ways that we use story and can do narrative work as leaders in faith communities.
	August 25-27 (William Enright and Richard Klopp) Creating Congregational Cultures of Generosity Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $221, Double – $185, Commuter – $$94 This seminar demonstrates congregational generosity by exploring the significant steps necessary to creating lasting cultural change within a congregation.  Led by the staff of the Center on Philanthropy and the Lake Institute.
	September 28-30 (Susan Beaumont) Stepping Up to Supervision Simpsonwood Conference and Retreat Center, Norcross, GA Tuition Cost: $499 ($549 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $308, Double – $228, Commuter – $55 Supervising the work of others requires learning new skill sets that are consistent with the role of pastor, but not innately known, and seldom learned during professional formation. You will learn the basics of managing and leading the work of other staff team members.
	October 5-7 (Larry Peers) Finishing Strong, Ending Well Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $281, Double – $193, Commuter – $94 You owe it to yourself and to your congregation to approach retirement in a deliberately thoughtful and meaningful way. Take advantage of this opportunity to envision the “third age” of your personal and professional growth as you approach retirement.
	October19-21 (Ed White) New Vision for the Long Pastorate Palisades Retret Center, Federal Way, WA Tuition Cost: $499 ($549 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $319, Double – $275, Commuter – $159 Come and join others who like you are in the midst of, or facing the prospects of, an extended pastorate.  You will have the opportunity to test several proven theories and instruments; to review your prospects for growth; to examine the support systems needed for a vital longer pastorate; begin outlining your personal and professional goals for upcoming years.
	November 2-4 (Alice Mann) Holy Conversations: Cutting Edge Approaches to Planning Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC Tuition Cost: $499 ($549 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $281, Double – $193, Commuter – $94
	November 16-18 (Larry Peers) Breakthroughs: Getting Congregations from Stuck to Thriving Franciscan Renewal Center, Scottsdale, AZ Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers) Room & Board: Single – $273, Double – $143, Commuter – $25 In this seminar, we will explore some of the common patterns and dynamics that keep leaders and congregations “stuck”  or unable to sustain the necessary changes for their breakthroughs in becoming vital centers for spiritual growth and for ministry in their communities.

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