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Welcome to your Growing Leaders idea forum. Please let us know all the ways in which you have adapted and added to the Growing Leaders course to suit your group.

Your ideas will help inspire and encourage others with their groups. You can also upload extra resources that you have used in order to help teach the material.

Why not also sign up to the new free Growing Leaders e-bulletin for people running the Growing Leaders course, providing you with ideas, updates, extra resources and more.

 

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You can share ideas in the GL forum and add your own comments. To start a new discussion thread, please email Penelope Simpkins at CPAS.

 

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The shared resources have been submitted by those leading the Growing Leaders course in churches nationwide. They are designed to provide useful material, insights or ideas for specific sessions.

You may also upload your own extra resources, which you think may be of use to other course leaders:

 

Please note: All uploaded resources are submitted to CPAS for moderation before being published online.

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Ideas to share (Growing Leaders) (click to expand)

  • Welcome to the GL forum

    This forum is intended for those running (or considering running) the CPAS Growing Leaders course. Please use the comment function to take part in discussions, or contact psimpkins@cpas.org.uk to start a new discussion thread.

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  • General ideas for running the GL course

    Thoughts to share with other GL leaders which aren't specific to any particular session.

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    GL Leader - 2010-02-15 16:53:58 Delete

    Send your potential participants a formal invite to join the course. There is a template for one in the Resource section of this website.

    GL Leader - 2010-02-15 16:52:29 Delete

    Give all your participants a Growing Leaders certificate at the end of the course to symbolise what they have acheived. There is a template for one in teh Resource section of this website.

    Rev Peter MacKenzie (St Peter's Harrow) - 2009-12-15 15:22:44 Delete

    We bought each participant a lever folder, with the sort of cover in which you can slide a piece of A4 paper as a front cover, then colour-printed off the A4 poster from the CD-ROM disk and then overprinted each candidate's name. This made the folders look amazingly professional and personalised. Stops them getting mixed up too.

  • GL Session 5 – Discerning direction

    Ideas for running Session 5 of the Growing Leaders course.

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    GL Leader - 2010-02-15 16:50:30 Delete

    Make use of the Discerning Direction Introductory Liturgy PowerPoint provided in the Resource section of this website.

    Rev Peter MacKenzie, St Peter's, Harrow - 2010-02-15 16:25:48 Delete

    For the worship in session 5 of GL, I wanted to do the suggested worship idea of getting people to surrender compasses as a symbolic act, but thought that people might not own one or forget to bring one, so with an image search on the internet I created this file, printed onto card and cut up so that each person could choose a compass when they arrive for use in the worship slot later on. They are all different and we get them back to use again next year.

    vicar72 - 2009-12-15 15:19:17 Delete

    When we came at the end of the day to 'celebrate it', we gave each participant a balloon to blow up, and asked them to write on something that had actually happened in their work as a result of some vision or sense of direction. We then spent five (manic) minutes keeping the balloons in the air as long as possible. A good point at which to let off steam, do something physical, and realise that discerning direction does lead to things happening.

    GL leader - 2009-12-15 15:18:41 Delete

    When you come to slide 76 and the point 'celebrate', play Kool and the Gang's song 'Celebration' as a lively way of introducing the point. The song is available as a download from a number of MP3 sites, and is ideally played LOUD!

  • GL Session 10 – Continuing well

    Ideas about leading Session 10 on the topic of 'Continuing well'.

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    Lorraine Purbrick - 2009-12-15 15:14:59 Delete

    How about starting this session with a meal as a way of celebrating their time together as a group? Also give a gift of a group photo in a frame to each person, linking this with the notion that leadership is never in isolation but in community. Encourage people to use it as a prompt to keep praying for one another.

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