Services for Religious Communities

Connection Partners, Inc. is a resource for the leadership and congregations of religious communities experiencing turmoil due to change, internal conflict, or trauma. We specialize in facilitating meetings and mediating for families, and for individuals and groups in community, non-profit, business or government. We are trained professionals who serve as neutral third party peacemakers for people with different perspectives who are connected by choice or by necessity.

We work with churches and synagogues in turmoil because we value that religious organizations help people believe in a power greater than themselves, provide moral guidance, maintain cultural traditions, evoke heart-felt actions, and create a community. In addition, we believe that our unique combination of skills and experience compliment the spectrum of tools that religious leaders bring to creating a stronger religious community and to helping churches and synagogues in distress.

We believe a professional who is not enmeshed in a situation and who respects the religious views of a congregation can be of great benefit in untangling the complex issues that can frequently be part of problems in a church community.

 

• Assisting pastors, interim pastors, and other clerical leaders to resolve conflicts and problems within congregations
• Facilitating effective conversations among board members and/or between members of the congregation who have strong, diverse opinions and who need to make decisions
• Supporting ministers and rabbis as a referral source providing mediation services to help members of the congregation resolve high conflict family, work and other relationship disputes
• Facilitating and/or consulting about group change processes particularly following stress or trauma
• Clarifying and resolving differing expectations for congregational leadership.
• Gathering and providing congregational feedback to clergy

For information on our Non-Adversarial Communication Workshop for Clergy, click here.