Workshops & Training

Engage Our Team for Your Next Event

The Center for Transforming Engagement offers speakers and trainers for both in-person and virtual events, including professional training and development, team building, keynote addresses, workshops, webinars or retreats.

Whatever event you are hosting, we can accommodate our material to your format.

Rates depend on location, length of time, and opportunities for promotion.

Conferences

Webinars

Retreats

Team-Building

Workshops

Board Presentations

Training & Development

Keynotes

Custom Speaking Engagements

Here is a sample of previous speaking engagements. This is just a sample of our offerings, and we can tailor to your topic.

  • Developing Resilience
  • Facilitations Skills
  • Effective Teams
  • Leader Burnout
  • Building Resilience to Trauma
  • Best Practices for Effective Clergy Small Groups
  • Resilient Pastors & Congregations
  • Story as a Tool for Resilience
  • And more…

Transforming Communities: Training for Individual Leaders & Effective Teams

 We offer a series of onsite trainings for those looking to implement the Transforming Communities (TC) process with their organizations. There are pathways for both individuals and full teams of 5-8 people. Participants not only are equipped to internally, but with the right relationships, the same process could benefit partnering organizations such as nonprofits and school-adjacent programs. 

Please indicate your interest in the form below and someone will reach out to you to help craft the best training for your needs. 

Online Courses

When you want to learn at your own pace, we offer a few online courses that work as a primer to our more intensive work through our workshops or programs. Topics for online courses include: 

  • Resilience 101 Online Course
  • Centering Prayer Online Course
  • Way of Life Online Course
  • Career & Call Online Course

You can access online courses here. 

Examples of Our Work

  • “Building Resilience to Trauma into Theological Education with Narrative Process Peer Groups” – Association of Theological Schools
  • “Clergy Burnout” – Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, Hispanic Access Foundation 
  • “Resilience” – Keynote presentation for NW regional staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
  • “Best Practices for Effective Clergy Small Groups” – Common Table Collaborative
  • “A Conversation on resilience” – Impact Movement and SW Indigenous Community
  • “Belonging to Become” –  Keynote talk at onsite retreat for the The Center for Being Known
  • “Resilient Pastors & Congregations” – NW Coast Presbytery of the PC(USA)
  • “Story as a Tool for Resilience” – Free Methodist Church
  • “Resilience for church planting” – Vineyard USA 
  • “Developing Resilience” – Impact Movement
  • “Forming Resilience in Pastors” – Evangelical Covenant Church
  • “Creating Your Self-Care Menu” – online
  • WebinarResilience in Crisis Webinar Series
    • Resilience for Spiritual Caregivers
    • Resilience for Mental Health Professionals
    • Creating Your Self-Care Dashboard

Let’s Connect!

We would love to chat with you further to help you discern the best training for your group. Please complete the form below to indicate your interest.

Upcoming Virtual Summit
Leading During Polarizing Times
Register for the Virtual Summit!
This FREE online event is designed for ministry leaders seeking practical tools, spiritual wisdom, and renewed strength to lead faithfully when your church community faces deep differences.
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Upcoming Virtual Summit
Leading During Polarizing Times
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This FREE online event is designed for ministry leaders seeking practical tools, spiritual wisdom, and renewed strength to lead faithfully when your church community faces deep differences.
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Full attendance and participation during all sessions are expected to complete the program.
Terms / Conditions. By registering for a Resilience or Leaders Circle, you agree to the following:
Please consider the schedule closely to ensure you will be able to participate in the virtual meetings, and block off your calendar to ensure your attendance. Should you have an emergency (illness, situations out of your control) that will impact your participation please email transforming@theseattleschool.edu
Time commitment:
Two hours one day per month for 8 months, dates to be determined by majority of registrants' availability and adjusted as needed during the first group meeting.
Your feedback is immensely valuable!
As an essential component of your participation in this program, we ask that you provide us with your honest, candid, and timely feedback in program surveys and conversations, and consider providing reviews or testimonials of the program for promotional use.
Code of Conduct:
The Center for Transforming Engagement strives for intentionality in the ways we relate to one another - how we as a team relate to each other, how we relate to participants, and how we hope participants will relate to us and one another. To that end, we hold cultural norms about the ways we interact with one another. Your participation in this program is contingent on your agreement to abide by these cultural norms. i. For growth to happen, we all need to be able to share about the deeper challenges we face. To provide that atmosphere of openness and support, you commit to not sharing personal information that is shared in program meetings. ii. In our interactions with each other and our communities, we practice the humility of not-knowing that is required to listen and discover. iii. Be aware of different cultural and characterological ways of communicating, and invite others’ voices. Respect theological differences: the river of Christian orthodoxy is wide, and while the streams of that river are distinct, they are not inherently better or worse. Even if you can’t respect the belief, treat the person with respect. iiii. We value both thoughts and feelings as valuable pieces of information that inform one another, and inform our learning and discerning together. iv. Be in the here and now (not mentally somewhere or some time else), with the people who are sharing their time and stories with you. Eliminate any distractions possible.
Fair Use Policy
All program content, recordings, and materials are the intellectual property of The Seattle School and may not be presented, distributed, or replicated. The Seattle School retains the copyright for all recorded content. Some print materials (PDFs, worksheets, journal prompts, etc.) will be licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike. Those materials will be available for download on our website, and may be used as long as the following conditions are met: (1) attribute to the Center for Transforming Engagement even if remixed/modified; (2) do not use for commercial (paid) purposes; and (3) anything you make that remixes or builds upon this material, you must also distribute under Creative Commons. More information on this license is available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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Full attendance and participation during all sessions are expected to complete the program. Please consider the schedule closely to ensure you will be able to participate in the virtual meetings, and block off your calendar to ensure your attendance. Should you have an emergency (illness, situations out of your control) that will impact your participation please email transforming@theseattleschool.edu Time commitment: Two hours one day per month for 8 months, dates to be determined by majority of registrants' availability and adjusted as needed during the first group meeting. Your feedback is immensely valuable! As an essential component of your participation in this program, we ask that you provide us with your honest, candid, and timely feedback in program surveys and conversations, and consider providing reviews or testimonials of the program for promotional use. 2. Code of Conduct The Center for Transforming Engagement strives for intentionality in the ways we relate to one another - how we as a team relate to each other, how we relate to participants, and how we hope participants will relate to us and one another. To that end, we hold cultural norms about the ways we interact with one another. Your participation in this program is contingent on your agreement to abide by these cultural norms. Confidentiality. For growth to happen, we all need to be able to share about the deeper challenges we face. To provide that atmosphere of openness and support, you commit to not sharing personal information that is shared in program meetings. Curiosity. In our interactions with each other and our communities, we practice the humility of not-knowing that is required to listen and discover. Respect differences. Be aware of different cultural and characterological ways of communicating, and invite others’ voices. Respect theological differences: the river of Christian orthodoxy is wide, and while the streams of that river are distinct, they are not inherently better or worse. Even if you can’t respect the belief, treat the person with respect. You are invited to be a whole person, with both thoughts and feelings. We value both thoughts and feelings as valuable pieces of information that inform one another, and inform our learning and discerning together. Presence. Be in the here and now (not mentally somewhere or some time else), with the people who are sharing their time and stories with you. Eliminate any distractions possible. 3. Fair Use Policy All program content, recordings, and materials are the intellectual property of The Seattle School and may not be presented, distributed, or replicated. The Seattle School retains the copyright for all recorded content. Some print materials (PDFs, worksheets, journal prompts, etc.) will be licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike. Those materials will be available for download on our website, and may be used as long as the following conditions are met: (1) attribute to the Center for Transforming Engagement even if remixed/modified; (2) do not use for commercial (paid) purposes; and (3) anything you make that remixes or builds upon this material, you must also distribute under Creative Commons. More information on this license is available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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