Possible engagements with
Transforming Possibilities, Inc.
Weekend Retreat — build relationships and capacity with your Board, Staff or key lay leaders within your church. Learn how groups most effectively work together. Discern how to involve more people in your ministry. Learn processes and systems that will increase the energy of your leadership group or your entire church. Co-create practices and processes that will become your future.
Sample Objectives and Processes:
- To facilitate team building skills and consciousness:
- To identify strengths of each member of group
- To empower group through celebration of unique strengths
- To form a cohesive consciousness of one
- To foster an energy to embrace a vision for your organization
- To co-create the practices of effective Board governance for your organization
Skill Building:
- Review The Source: Twelve Principles of Governance That Power Exceptional Boards from BoardSource
- View Meeting the Challenge: An Orientation to Nonprofit Board Service a multi-media resource from BoardSource
Consciousness Raising:
- Review The Twelve Powers as taught by Unity as it pertains to an organization or a Board of Trustees
- Use guided meditations and self-reflection exercises to discern gifts, skills, passions, and values.
Team Building:
- Use Appreciative Inquiry tools and process for dialogue and synthesis
- This is who and what I have come here to be
- This is who and what we have come here to be
- Dreaming and Designing our Destiny toward healthy and productive Board and staff relationship.
- Co-create Twelve Practices of Effective Board Governance within your organization
- Form agreements that will guarantee your Destiny
Sample Agenda:
Friday Afternoon and Evening| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Introductions and Calling the Circle |
| 1:45 PM | First Conversation Getting to know ourselves and each other What are our hoped for outcomes for Board retreat? |
| 2:45 PM | Synthesize what we learned from First Conversation |
| 3:30 PM | View video — Meeting the Challenge: An Orientation to Nonprofit Board Service |
| 4:00 PM | Discussion of Video |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner |
| 6:00 PM | Second Conversation: Discovering Your Strengths |
| 7:00 PM | Synthesize what we learned from Discovering Your Strengths |
| 7:45 PM | Review Visioning and Strategic Planning Process |
| 8:30 PM | Reflections and Celebrations |
| 9:00 PM | Adjourn |
Saturday
| 9:00 AM | Calling the Circle |
| 9:30 AM | Setting the Context for Effective Board Governance — The Source: Twelve Principles of Governance That Power Exceptional Boards |
| 11:00 AM | Bringing Spiritual Consciousness to Effective Board Governance — The Twelve Powers for Boards |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Third Conversation |
| 2:00 PM | Synthesize Data from Conversation Discover Positive Core of your Board Co-create our Twelve Desired Board Practices Choose 3-5 priorities for your Board |
| 4:00 PM | Summarizing the Twelve Principles, Powers and Practices of Effective Board Governance |
| 4:15PM | Celebrations and Reflections of Board Retreat |
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn |
