Flourish 25
A forum of The Paideia Centre For Reflective Leadership
About
David Shosanya - Founder & Host
The Paideia Centre for Reflective Leadership was established in response to a felt need to create a dedicated space that enabled and empowered leaders to give intentional thought to their practice of leadership.
The FLOURISH NEW YEAR ONLINE RETREAT is a safe space for aspiring and established leaders to critically reflect on their philosophy and of leadership as part of an accountable community of practice.
Leaders can use the space to pause at the beginning of a new year, to review their leadership journey over the past 12 months, and to set clear goals for the year ahead.
We are pleased to gather experienced and influential practitioners and thoughts leaders to guide our community through the complex, sometimes lonely and turbulent world, that leaders can experience.
Keynote 1:
Managing Yourself
Abounding
Carole Stewart
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One of Britain’s top 50 Business Advisers - for work with women starting businesses (2015).
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LinkedIn Top Voice UK (2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020).
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We Are the City, Rising Stars Champion - for helping women to progress as leaders (2018).
Keynote 2:
Managing Relationships
This
TBC
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Named as one of Britain’s top 50 Business Advisers - for work with women starting businesses (2015).
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LinkedIn Top Voice UK (2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020).
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We Are the City, Rising Stars Champion - for helping women to progress as leaders (2018)
Bishop Eric &
Rev Millicent Brown
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Senior Pastors at New Testament Church of God (NTCG), Brixton.
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Former Administrative Bishop, NTCG, and Pentecostal President, Churches Together in England (CTE).
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Former National Women's President, NTCG, England & Wales & Registered Counsellor.
Workshop 1:
Family Matters
Leadership will inevitably have an effect on the leaders marriage and family life. What that impact is, and whether it is positive or negative, will ultimately be determined by how proactive you are as a leader in identifying and managing potential pitfalls before they arrive.
Research has demonstrated that being unable to manage the dynamics that can arise between leadership demands and family expectations can have an adverse, even detrimental, effect on family life. The following statistics offer an glimpse into some of the tensions leaders in ministry are facing:
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82% said that they had experienced family tensions.
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80% of pastors believe their ministry negatively affects their families.
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80% of pastors and 84% of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
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80% of pastors say they do not have sufficient time to spend with their spouse.
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63% had felt lonely.
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Almost 40% polled said they have had an extra-marital affair since beginning ministry.
Bishop Eric & Rev. Millicent Brown will help us to explore the unique dynamics that emerge with leadership / ministry and marriage, and share from personal experience, how leaders can successfully navigate the pressures of family and ministry.
Workshop 2:
Health Matters
Dr. Shola Oladipo
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Registered Nutritionist
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Naturopathic Chef
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A. N. Other
When The Apostle John to his good friend Gaius (3 John 2) he specifically and deliberately enquired about his physical health! In the Pastoral Epistles The Apostle Paul expresses a similar concern when writing to his spiritual son (Timothy (2:53).
Questions about leadership, ministry, and personal health are either not nrmally raiseed or relegated to the realm of passing casual comment or enquiry. Research has shown that matters of health are important to leaders and should be taken more seriously than they currently are.
The same research referred to above (Family Matters) offered valuable and much needed insights into the psychological, emotional, and physical health of ministry leaders:
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98% admitted suffering from stress.
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86% said that they felt depressed.
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83% said that they felt angry.
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82% admitted struggling with sexual temptations.
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63% had felt lonely.
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57% of pastors do not have a regularly scheduled and implemented exercise routine
The findings are not encouraging. However, they are also not inevitable. Speaking about the physical health and wellbeing of leaders is a good starting point to ensuring that it becomes a central theme in leadership conversations. This workshop aims to begin to centre and normalise the health and leadership conversation.
Christina will challenge us to take our personal wellbeing / health seriously as it is critical to our ability to function well as leaders.
Panel Discussion:
Who do you say that I am?: Exploring the tensions between personal identity and leadership positions.
Leadership inevitably raises questions of personal identity. Those questions may be rooted in quiet, secret thoughts - about adequacy, competency and legitimacy - or more publicly expressed in the form of self-doubt, in-action or a fear / failure to take responsibility.
How do we retain a healthy perspective of who we are?
Panellists include:
Bishop Mike Royal
General Secretary,
Churches Together
in England
Rev Lotwina Farodoye
Vicar,
St Stephens Church
West Wimbledon
Bishop Claion Grandison
Administrative Bishop NTCG
England & Wales
Dr. Lisa Adjei
The Sankofa Collective & Nat. Church Relations Manager Christian Aid
Rev Andrew Wignal
Senior Pastor
New Testament Assembly, Tooting
Bishop JH
“I write to thank you for an excellent event yesterday. I confess, that I was not sure what I would have expected; but the event has really been a great help and support for leaders in ministry and we leave with so much valuable tools for our ongoing development.
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Morgan James, NY
"Thank you for the Flourish 24. It was both insightful and challenging as well as inspiring.
Well done and congratulations
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Pastor DE
“Thank you so much for the invite to the conference yesterday it was powerful. I learned so much and there is so much to still take in from the the nuggets I received”