Pastoral Leadership Institute

Friday 6th June 2008
FIRO-B - Leadership and Interpersonal Needs

The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orienatation-Behaviour (FIRO-B) instrument measures behaviour that derives from interpersonal needs. It provides increased insight into and appreciation of interpersonal behaviours. This in turn can lead to increased interpersonal satisfaction in working with or relating to others.

The FIRO-B is most commonly used to help people:
- become aware of their interpersonal needs
- become aware of how their needs may be perceived by others
- identify sources of conflict with others
- build more satisfying relationships
- understand their own leadership behaviours
- identify organisational culture and its implications

FIRO-B Assumptions
The FIRO-B starts with the premise that "people need people". It defines "interpersonal" as: any interaction, real or imagined that occurs between people. It defines "need" as: a physical or psychological condition of an individual that if not satisfied leads to a state of discomfort or anxiety. To avoid this unpleasant outcome, people are motivated to take action to meet the need. However, individuals vary greatly in what constitutes satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Interpersonal needs can be summarized in three areas: inclusion, control and affection.

Saturday 7th June 2008
Working with Difficult People

- Anger Management - What did your family, culture and religion teach you about anger?
- Healthy anger: assertiveness vs aggression vs passive aggressive behaviours
- Anger as energy to create momentum
- The differences between anger, anxiety, fear and grief
- Exploring the house of anger
- Creating usable rules for leadership and anger expressions

Sunday 8th June 2008
Personal and Professional Boundaries and a Christian Code of Ethics

- Video - Tactics of Innovation - How to help people change
- Internal and External Assets - The twenty assets required for teenagers and our future healthy leadership
- The Management-Leadership Continuum
- How to create a Health Care Plan "Video Fish"
- Video - Celebrate what's right with the World: Exploring the key concept for creating a positive, proactive and futuristic work environment
- Stress - Ministry Burn-Out and Work Addiction: Learn how not to make an ash of yourself
- Adult Life Skills for Living Life to the Full

Monday 9th June 2008
Archetypes and Leadership Preferences

- The Four Masculine and Feminine Archetypes. Our leadership style is influenced by our dominant archtype. How we direct, lead, plan, empower and grow can be enhanced when we live in congruence to our personal archetype.
What is the purpose of Archetypes?
Archetypes have a twofold purpose.
- First, they help us understand the strengths and weaknesses, limitations and potential of a pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving which becomes the bueprint of a way of life e.g. working as an ITU nurse vs working as a librarian vs working as a mother vs working as a surgeon.
- The second purpose is that archetypes help establish an outer blueprint to our inner potential. By learning the boundaries and functions of each archetype and its healthy and unhealthy ways, we can avoid the pitfalls of working against an archetype (trying to raise/parent our children as a mother archetype when we really are a repressed amazon); misusing the parameters of an archetype (expecting too much or too little from yourself); or resisting the potential of an archetype and falling into depression, suppression, repression or oppression.

- The Intimacy Inventory and the Social Atom (both tools to examine important relationships) as well as the Ammas and Abbas who have helped shape our leadership style will be explored.

Tuesday 10th June 2008
The California Personality Inventory - Biblical Leadership Talents

(the CPI must be completed prior to June 6th)
- Strengths and weaknesses of your leadership profile
- Knowing your growing edge as a leader
- The four quadrants: alpha, beta, delta and gamma
- The four leadership stlyes: sovereign, parallel, semi-mutual and mutual
- Deborah Tannen's "Talking 9-5" Understanding how men and women communicate in the work place

Schedule

Cost
Non residential: £215 per person
A few residential places are available for people attending from other parts of the country. The cost will be £380 per person (Costs include CPI testing)
For booking forms please return to Events page