Speaker: Amie Post, MA, LCMFT
An exploration of the value of togetherness and a proposed way of thinking about determining when it’s useful and when it’s not.
Speaker: Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC
Dr. Smith will present on the process of writing a book about Bowen theory for a popular audience.
Speaker: Mary Catherine “Kitty” Bass, MDiv, MSW, LCSW
Kitty Bass will be focusing on three aspects describing the human’s part in understanding our relationship with nature. The video recording for this meeting will be posted on Facebook and YouTube later in the year.
In The Hidden Life of Trees, author Peter Wohlleben’s observations of the underground communications system that trees rely on for survival serves as a way to understand how human groups, such as congregations, function. Like the hidden life of trees, the connections in congregations are deep, with many relationships, associations, and loyalties operating under the surface. Like a grove, a congregation acts as an organism with developing and changing interconnections. Clergy leaders are often transplanted into the ongoing life of congregations. Usually there is a predecessor, a known and unknown history, alongside forces at work within and without. How is one to live and lead with these unseen influences at work?
