Services Retreat Discover More Counselling We recognise the important role that timely and effective therapeutic support can provide at various times for every individual. Ministers and their families can access different counselling and therapeutic support through our Pastoral Support team. Discover More FFY CMD Allowance Discover More Spiritual Accompaniment The process of accompanying someone on a journey of a deepening relationship with God. It involves listening, praying, discerning and affirming. Discover More Pastoral Supervision A relationship characterised by trust, confidentiality and openness that offers you freedom and safety to explore issues arising in your work. Discover More MDC MDC is a minister-led and confidential conversation that provides you with the opportunity to reflect on your role, ministry and future. Discover More Coaching Coaching is a conversation that offers a partnership of discovery. It starts with the premise that the client is the expert in their own context. Discover More First Five Years First five years’ support is changing. We are committed to providing support and development that makes a real difference. Discover More Place for Hope – Ministers in First Five Years Discover More Learning Communities Learning Community is a chance to take some of your members / leadership team on a journey. Four times over a period of two years, you and up to five others from your church come together for 2 full days of teaching, reflection and planning. Discover More Postgrad Fund The newly formed Postgraduate Fund provides monies for part-time postgraduate studies. Discover More
Counselling We recognise the important role that timely and effective therapeutic support can provide at various times for every individual. Ministers and their families can access different counselling and therapeutic support through our Pastoral Support team. Discover More
Spiritual Accompaniment The process of accompanying someone on a journey of a deepening relationship with God. It involves listening, praying, discerning and affirming. Discover More
Pastoral Supervision A relationship characterised by trust, confidentiality and openness that offers you freedom and safety to explore issues arising in your work. Discover More
MDC MDC is a minister-led and confidential conversation that provides you with the opportunity to reflect on your role, ministry and future. Discover More
Coaching Coaching is a conversation that offers a partnership of discovery. It starts with the premise that the client is the expert in their own context. Discover More
First Five Years First five years’ support is changing. We are committed to providing support and development that makes a real difference. Discover More
Learning Communities Learning Community is a chance to take some of your members / leadership team on a journey. Four times over a period of two years, you and up to five others from your church come together for 2 full days of teaching, reflection and planning. Discover More
Postgrad Fund The newly formed Postgraduate Fund provides monies for part-time postgraduate studies. Discover More
Events God Welcomes All – Launch Event The Church of Scotland is launching a new hymnary supplement called God Welcomes All during this year’s General Assembly. The launch event will take place at St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh on Sunday May 19 from 7-9pm, and will feature special guests who have songs included in the collection. Tickets are free but expected to go … Read More God Welcomes All – Launch Event God Welcomes All – Launch Event The Church of Scotland is launching a new hymnary supplement called God Welcomes All during this year’s General Assembly. The launch event will take place at St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh on Sunday May 19 from 7-9pm, and will feature special guests who have songs included in the collection. Tickets are … Read More Non-Violence: Jesus’ radical invitation to a critical spiritual practice in the modern world Nonviolence: Jesus’ Radical Invitation The Third Way: Nonviolence in the current age is a course drawing on Jesus’ life and teachings that explores the spiritual practice of nonviolence in our personal lives as people of peace and then how nonviolence can be a powerful tool in our individual and collective approach to issues of violence … Read More LICC Lunchtime Sessions: The Frontline Life of a Church Leader If we are going to grow a culture of whole life discipleship at the heart of our churches then we as church leaders need to lead the way Date and time Monday, June 3 · 1 – 2pm GMT+1 Location Online Refund Policy Contact the organizer to request a refund. About this event 1 hour … Read More Parenting Teens for a Life of Faith: 6-session Zoom course: Parenting for Faith Join us for the Parenting Teens Online Course 4/6/24 – 9/7/24 | 20:00 – 21:00 | £60.00 This summer, we are running our brand new Parenting Teens course for church groups of parents and carers of tweens and teens. One church booking means you can invite as many people as you like from your church or … Read More Pioneering Parishes – Pioneer Advocates Book Club The book club for those who support pioneers, lead parishes and/or want to see culture change in their worshipping community. Date and time Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:30 – 21:00 BST Location Online About this event 1 hour 30 minutes Pioneer Advocates Book Club The book club is for those who support pioneers, lead parishes … Read More Pioneering Parishes – Community of Learning webinar Pioneering Parishes – Community of Learning webinar A space for people to learn, grow, share insight and be encouraged in fostering culture change and moving the energy of the church outwards. About this event 2 hours 15 minutes We know that enabling steady culture change in the church (or any organisation) takes a great … Read More Responding to Challenging Behaviour Course Responding to Challenging Behaviour This course considers the dynamics that lead to bullying, supporting participants to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of power and equips participants with basic skills to become more confident when dealing with high conflict behaviour. Read More Death & Life Webinar June 2024: BRF Online & Anna Chaplaincy Why reflecting on death and mortality is essential to a healthy life FREE EVENT | 5 JUNE 2024 | 2pm – 4pm Mortality affects us all, but we find it a difficult subject to talk about. In this webinar, Joanna Collicutt discusses with Debbie Thrower her recently published six-week course and unpacks some of the crucial … Read More View All Events
God Welcomes All – Launch Event The Church of Scotland is launching a new hymnary supplement called God Welcomes All during this year’s General Assembly. The launch event will take place at St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh on Sunday May 19 from 7-9pm, and will feature special guests who have songs included in the collection. Tickets are free but expected to go … Read More
God Welcomes All – Launch Event God Welcomes All – Launch Event The Church of Scotland is launching a new hymnary supplement called God Welcomes All during this year’s General Assembly. The launch event will take place at St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh on Sunday May 19 from 7-9pm, and will feature special guests who have songs included in the collection. Tickets are … Read More
Non-Violence: Jesus’ radical invitation to a critical spiritual practice in the modern world Nonviolence: Jesus’ Radical Invitation The Third Way: Nonviolence in the current age is a course drawing on Jesus’ life and teachings that explores the spiritual practice of nonviolence in our personal lives as people of peace and then how nonviolence can be a powerful tool in our individual and collective approach to issues of violence … Read More
LICC Lunchtime Sessions: The Frontline Life of a Church Leader If we are going to grow a culture of whole life discipleship at the heart of our churches then we as church leaders need to lead the way Date and time Monday, June 3 · 1 – 2pm GMT+1 Location Online Refund Policy Contact the organizer to request a refund. About this event 1 hour … Read More
Parenting Teens for a Life of Faith: 6-session Zoom course: Parenting for Faith Join us for the Parenting Teens Online Course 4/6/24 – 9/7/24 | 20:00 – 21:00 | £60.00 This summer, we are running our brand new Parenting Teens course for church groups of parents and carers of tweens and teens. One church booking means you can invite as many people as you like from your church or … Read More
Pioneering Parishes – Pioneer Advocates Book Club The book club for those who support pioneers, lead parishes and/or want to see culture change in their worshipping community. Date and time Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:30 – 21:00 BST Location Online About this event 1 hour 30 minutes Pioneer Advocates Book Club The book club is for those who support pioneers, lead parishes … Read More
Pioneering Parishes – Community of Learning webinar Pioneering Parishes – Community of Learning webinar A space for people to learn, grow, share insight and be encouraged in fostering culture change and moving the energy of the church outwards. About this event 2 hours 15 minutes We know that enabling steady culture change in the church (or any organisation) takes a great … Read More
Responding to Challenging Behaviour Course Responding to Challenging Behaviour This course considers the dynamics that lead to bullying, supporting participants to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of power and equips participants with basic skills to become more confident when dealing with high conflict behaviour. Read More
Death & Life Webinar June 2024: BRF Online & Anna Chaplaincy Why reflecting on death and mortality is essential to a healthy life FREE EVENT | 5 JUNE 2024 | 2pm – 4pm Mortality affects us all, but we find it a difficult subject to talk about. In this webinar, Joanna Collicutt discusses with Debbie Thrower her recently published six-week course and unpacks some of the crucial … Read More