Consultation to Clergy, Congregations and Organizaions

     Counselors can be helpful to organizations in the same way they can be useful to individuals, couples, and families.  Congregations and businesses often find the need to have a third party assist in the process of making decisions, negotiating vision and resolving conflict.  We can offer assistance through retreat settings, meetings/consultation and other group settings to clarify the direction of your organization.  At times congregations, or businesses have utilized services such as Horizon Hope following major transitions, losses, retirements, new hiring, or developing a unified team in their approach to the work they do.  Please call if interested.  If I am not available, I will assist your organization find a qualified professional to provide consultation and or mediation.  There is nothing magical about a consultant assisting an organization.  What is most beneficial is the assistance from a person not within the system to assist you as a leader discovers new insights and actions for the course of that organization.

     Horizon Hope also provides consultation to Clergy to give an outside perspective to congregational or organizational dynamics.  This consultation can be in the area of assisting those in a congregation find proper mental health or treatment options.  Consultation can also be a means to assist a pastor clarify the course of action he or she may assist persons or prepare to lead a congregation.  At times we can be too close to the situation to see things clearly and a consultant can assist you as a leader discover the best way to respond to dynamics within your gifts for leadership.   Consultation can take place face to face or by phone based on need.  At times this is brief consultation and other times a number of weeks or months.

     Pastors and Congregations also utilize consultation as a means to process the dynamics of an organization as interfaced with their own personal life story.  The process of introspection of life experience and ministry can be valuable to the leader of an organization.  Let us assist you find the response to a dynamic rather than a reaction.  If you go to the next sub category entitled Clergy Groups, you can view the way in which one of these groups works.