Academy of Artful Leadership — Presbytery of Baltimore

Presbytery of Baltimore

The Academy of Artful Leadership helps gifted leaders continue to grow through hosted conversations around key themes in ministry, peer learning, and individual coaching. The outcome is greater clarity and calculated movement toward transformational congregational leadership.

The Academy utilizes a “coach approach” process, which means that instead of relying on instruction from a teacher or prescriptions from a consultant, a coach helps to mine the expertise and internal wisdom of congregational leaders. This “coach approach” process helps leaders discern the God-sized things that need to happen, develop a plan to get there, and celebrate with them when they do.

Topics Covered

  • Spiritual Leadership — How to remain a life-giving adaptive and spiritual leader.
  • Adaptive Leadership — Best practices for connecting with the mission field around you.
  • The Power of Smart Goals — The power of setting SMART goals for ministry.
  • Honor and Disrupt — What needs to be honored, and what needs to be disrupted for the sake of the Kingdom?
  • Enhancing Small Group Ministry — Why leaders should be starting new small groups continuously.
  • Developing Lay Leadership — Tools for developing lay leadership.
  • Increasing Vitality in Worship — What one change would increase the vitality of your worship?
  • The Coach Approach to Ministry — How to utilize the “coach approach” in ministry.
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Schedule

  • Group sessions will be held via video conference beginning September 2019
    (detailed schedule will be provided)
  • Individual coaching calls will be scheduled between you and your coach at a time that is convenient for you.

What’s Included?

  • 18 hours of coaching that includes:
    • Eight monthly 90-minute group sessions designed to spark dynamic conversation around key themes in ministry.
    • Six individual one-on-one coaching sessions with a trained coach, focusing on challenges and opportunities in ministry.
  • Teaching Videos and Worksheets –monthly, around crucial ministry themes
  • Peer Group Learning Calls –eight monthly calls, 90 minutes each
  • Individual Coaching calls — six 60-minute calls
  • Certificate of Leadership Development upon completion of the training

Course Leaders/Coaches —

Debbie Schmidt

Debbie Ingram Schmidt serves part time on the staff of Baltimore Presbytery as Associate for Spiritual Leader Development. She is a trained coach and spiritual director and leads workshops and retreats to resource clergy and lay leaders in spiritual practices and leadership skills. She is also a member of Central Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, MD, where her husband has served as Senior Pastor for over fifteen years. Debbie is a leader in the women’s ministry and part of the preaching team at Central. Debbie and her husband also served as mission co-workers in Japan for ten years. Debbie is the mother of two children and grandmother of four. She enjoys reading and travelling and finds creative expression in knitting and hand crafts.

Debbie Schmidt
(433) 946-6802
dschmidt@baltimorepresbytery.org

 

Rev. Jennifer Barchi is the chair of the Commission on Thriving Congregations in Baltimore Presbytery, and she serves as the pastor of Dickey Memorial Presbyterian where she has been since 2013. She completed her ICF coaching training through Holmes Coaching in 2019 with several other members of the Presbytery, and she particularly enjoys group and team coaching (it’s even given her a new-found passion for Session meetings). In her free time, Jennifer is a writer and an aerial artist. She lives in Baltimore with her wife, their son, and their two dogs.

Rev. Jennifer Barchi
410.448.2666
dmpcpastor@gmail.com

 

For additional information, please contact Debbie Schmidt or Rev. Jennifer Barchi

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About the Author —

Rev. Chris Holmes, PCC,  has been coaching church leaders across many denominations since 2008, with over 1000 hours coaching laity, clergy, denominational leaders and bishops. In the United Methodist Church he leads the coaching team working with new district superintendents and directors of connectional ministry, as well as several conference leadership cabinets.

Chris authored, along with George Howard, the Coach Approach Skill Training (CAST) for ministry, which is an approved training program of the International Coach Federation. CAST has now trained over 1000 church leaders in the basic and advanced skills of coaching for ministry. He also is co-creator and faculty for Auburn Seminary’s coach training and author of The Art of Coaching Clergy, as well as many articles on coaching.

As a founding member of the Maryland Chapter of the International Coach Federation, Chris served as President from 2012-2014. Prior to coaching, he pastored churches for 26 years and served as District Superintendent of the Annapolis District in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. Chris and Margaret have been married for over 35 years, have three grown children. Chris is an accomplished watercolor artist.

General Questions?

Contact Lynda Otte
Holmes Coaching Group
614-245-8813
lynda@holmescoaching.com