Congregational Training

TEACHING TOPICS OFFERED

Tom and Donna offer courses or seminars to congregations that are usually on Sunday mornings during Church School and usually are series. Some may only be one-time sessions and some can be as long as eight sessions. If you are interested in having either teach in your setting just contact the BPI office.

Topics offered by Donna Strachan-Ledbetter:

Conscious Aging
Seeking Stillness, Living Life: The Spiritual Opportunities of Stress
Discerning Your Spiritual Gifts and Talents
Adolescence: In-Between the Times
When There’s No Time Left for You: A Series for Women Who Are Moms
Divorce: Journey of Pain and Hope
Forgiveness
Hope Revisited: The Journey of Grief
God Images and Women
Holiday Depression: Behind the Scenes of the Glitz and Glitter
Men and Women: Honoring the Differences
Myth and Ritual: The Myths We Live By
Sabbath Time: Self-Care for Clergy
Women’s Relationship with Self, Other and the Divine: A Sacred Journey
Chaos and Serenity: Embracing, Feeling, Surrendering and Accepting
A Sojourn to the Sea, A Sojourn to the Self
Self-Care: A Focus on Stress and Time Management
Couples and Conflict

Topics offered by Tom Ledbetter:

Images of God: “The God We Never Knew,” a study of Marcus Borg’s The
God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More
Authentic Contemporary Faith.
How, Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty
and Meaning of Our Lives, a study of Wayne Muller’s book.
Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian: A study of James Fowler’s book
Transforming Our Hurts Into Spiritual Gain: A study of Legacy of the Heart:
The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood by Wayne Muller
A Quest for the Historical Jesus: A Study of works of Marcus Borg and
Walter Wink
An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Call to Mystery, Intimacy, and
Freedom
A Bride Married to Amazement: The Heroic Journey
The Heart of Christianity: A study of Marcus Borg’s book
Thriving Through Crisis: Turn Tragedy and Trauma Into Growth and
Change study of the book by Bill O’Hanlon

Training Lay Persons
Training Clergy
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