Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and Congregational Life
Aug 1996 · Fortress Press
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Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve their quality of life together and function more effectively in achieving mission goals. This book offers:
A theory about human behavior that will aid understanding of how things can get out of control in the human community of the church;
A practical set of leadership ideas and behaviors;
Guidelines for how to behave in the midst of upsetting and conflictual circumstances;
Personal steps that leaders in the church can take to become more positive forces for healing and cooperation.
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September 3, 2010
This book was a good read for me, it addressed some of my own family issues. It goes over family systems theory and birth order, differentiation and fusion, how anxiety develops in humans, calm leadership in the midst of anxiety. The closeness/distance dynamic. It also discusses triangles and why people do it, patterns of reactivity. It has many questions at the end of the chapters to help you become a better leader and to help assess your congregation's emotional system.
About the author
Ronald W. Richardson is former Clinical Director of the North Shore Counseling Center, pastoral counselor, author of many books on family systems theory and is currently a retired pastor living in West Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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