Peter Bowden Updates

6 Community Groups Strategies for Growing Congregations

In this session I discuss how to use a common "Community Group" model in congregations to promote connection, meaning, and membership growth. We cover ways you can easily use community groups in different contexts for maximum impact.

Here is the link to the Google Doc I reference in the session.
Below you may find the video, audio podcast, and summary notes & bonus reflection by Meaning Spark AI.

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Making Innovation a Community Practice

With the rate of change in our world accelerating, we need a new approach to changing our approach! I believe we need to "institutionalize innovation" and make experimentation, exploration, and play a community practice.

Many leaders have a process whereby they SET their approach, model, process, methods, etc... and use it until it stops working in a major way.

Then, after frustration and associated debate, there is a focused process launched to assess the problem and "fix" it. That might include bringing in an expensive outside expert and perhaps a major redesign of communications or staffing. Then, once the new way is established and everything seems to be in working order, that way gets locked down.

This no longer works. Things are changing too quickly.

Instead, we need to develop a mindset and process that is more like surfing on the edge of constant change.

Given the rate of...

COMMUNITY: Peter Bowden's Vision and Plans for 2022

Happy 2022! To my colleagues, family, friends, and all new to my community, here's an overview of my vision and plans for this year. This is an overview of where my heart and attention are focused.

In addition to my existing training and coaching work with community leaders, I'm expanding my community-building efforts in these new and exciting ways:

1) Video Strategy for COMMUNITY Leaders

This year I'm expanding SOCIAL VIDEO strategy and skill training for community leaders so you can engage with and LEAD YOUR COMMUNITY in today's video-dominated world!

2) COMMUNITY for all via Small Group Lab open source models

To help crush our loneliness epidemic, engage people with the justice issues of our time, and ensure all people have meaningful connections, this year I'm sharing the core small group models I've used successfully for decades through my Small Group Lab project. Think "open source" resources you may use, adapt, and build upon. Free.

Decentralized. Autonomous....

Peter Bowden

6 Community Groups Strategies for Growing Congregations

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Making Innovation a Community Practice

COMMUNITY: Peter Bowden's Vision and Plans for 2022

1) Video Strategy for COMMUNITY Leaders

2) COMMUNITY for all via Small Group Lab open source models

Peter's Audio Podcast

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