SCHEDULE

REGISTRATION
Click HERE to register and pay all fees online.

SPECIAL
OFFER!

$300 scholarships are being offered to the first ten (10) registrations received, reducing the course fee by half, plus the cost of the personal self-assessment survey.  Register online today, and select “EQ Scholarship Registration” while they last.


CONTACT
For more information contact:
Dr. David Sawyer
Director of Lifelong Learning, or Laura March


Tuition
$775. The tuition fee includes a survey on Emotional Intelligence. This survey involves a 360- degree EQ evaluation of each participant provided by up to 20 people related to this individual.

Meals
Meals will be served on campus at the Main Dining Services at participants' expense.

Accommodations
Participants should make their own reservations with Laws Lodge or other local hotels. Accommodations are not included in the price of tuition.

Laws Lodge
Louisville Seminary 502.992.0220
1044 Alta Vista Road
Louisville, KY 40205-1798

In addition, some of the hotels and motels listed below provide a reduced rate to guests who mention Louisville Seminary.

Breckenridge Inn Hotel 502.456.5050
2900 Breckenridge Lane Louisville, KY

Extended Stay America 502.897.2559
1411 Browns Lane Louisville, KY

Amerisuites
800.833.1516
701 S. Hurstbourne Lane
Louisville, KY

The Woodhaven Inn 888.895.1011
402 S. Hubbards Lane

Louisville, KY www.innatwoodhaven.com

Hawthorne Suites LTD 502.899.5959
751 Cypress Station Dr. Louisville, KY

 

Emotional Intelligence & Human Relations Training

The EQ-HR workshop is an intensive 5-day session for seminarians, clergy and religious leaders, designed to enable participants to learn about, build, and practice emotional intelligence skills in a small group setting. A team of skilled facilitators, led by Roy Oswald and David Sawyer, provide tools and feedback to enable participants to learn about themselves and to immediately practice emerging skills. As group life unfolds, participants give and receive feedback regarding the impact they have on others in the group. Participants will learn both inter-personal and intra-group communication skills. The content of the workshop revolves around the five areas of emotional intelligence listed below as keys to improving leadership effectiveness for faith based leaders.

As part of this core event, workshop participants complete a comprehensive self-assessment of their emotional intelligence. They also identify up to 20 people who know them well and are willing to complete the same assessment in order to provide valuable feedback. What results is a detailed report of one’s Emotional Intelligence strengths and development needs. The report is confidential will provide possible personal items to be explored in one’s small group. Participants may elect to have a one-to-one session to discuss their report with a facilitator.

Past participants have described this assessment and the EQ-HR workshop as a life-changing event.

In preparation for this event, participants are encouraged to read The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace by M. Scott Peck (Touchstone, 1998), parts I and II.

WORKSHOP OUTCOMES:

• Improved awareness of concepts of emotional intelligence and the impact of
  emotional intelligence on the participant and all with whom he or she interacts.
• Improved ability to identify, articulate, and reflect on various phenomena of group life and group process.
• Improved understanding of how one is impacted by a group and one’s own impact on a group.
• Increased skills in pastoral leadership for lay and clergy.
• Heightened awareness of the importance of constructive behavioral information about self and others as leaders.
• Heightened awareness of the presence of God’s Spirit in group life and ability to identify and reflect on that presence.
• Recognition of the redemptive possibilities within groups.

LEADERSHIP:

Roy M. Oswald

Author, seminar leader, and former senior consultant for the Alban Institute, Oswald is currently Executive Director of the Center for Emotional Intelligence and Human Relations Skills. He has provided leadership for hundreds of conferences and training events in the U.S. and Canada. A variety of denominations have called on Oswald to focus on the pastoral role and the dynamics of parish leadership. He also frequently consults with local congregations and judicatories where his planning model utilizes norms, myths, and meaning statements from a church’s past. Oswald is identified with research into the transitions clergy make when they enter parishes for the first time and for clergy in longer pastorates. More recently, he has headed studies of the candidacy process, leadership needs of small congregations, and new methodology for assessing ministries using clergy/lay teams. His most recent book focuses on the Eight Polarities a Thriving Congregation Manages Well. (2007)

David R. Sawyer

David Sawyer is Professor of Ministry teaching in the areas of church leadership and administration, and directs the Lifelong Learning and Doctor of Ministry programs at Louisville Seminary. He has forty years experience as a pastor, associate pastor, interim pastor, new church development pastor, judicatory executive staff, and in group facilitation, human systems consultation, and workshop leadership. He is author of  Work of the Church: Getting the Job Done in Boards and Committees (Judson Press, 1987), and Hope in Conflict: Discovering Wisdom in Congregational Turmoil (Pilgrim Press, 2007).