PROPOSAL DEADLINE: NOV. 1, 2007

Expectations of Presenters

• The foci for CENTER Day 2008 are Mentoring and Professional Development. It is hoped that workshops will connect with these foci in some way.
• Mentoring includes the benefits of the mentoring process for both the experienced minister and the new minister, how to mentor, best practices, and related issues. Mentoring has a role to play all along the path of ministry, from entering seminary, completing ministerial education, during Preliminary Fellowship, and through out the years of ministry and into retirement.
• Professional Development includes the full scope of ministerial development over the lifetime of a minister; from preaching, stewardship, improving pastoral skills with those at the end of life, the special needs of the community minister, using the latest technology, self-care and more.
• Length of a single workshop should be 75 minutes.
• Double workshops (150 minutes) should have time for a break in the middle.
• Each workshop should start and end as scheduled.
• Lately, our colleagues have been asking for more in-depth, 150 minute workshops. These will be given priority in scheduling.
• Integration of anti-racism anti-oppression multiculturalist perspectives is expected.

Please remember that these workshops are our gifts to our colleagues. The CENTER Committee does not compensate workshop presenters.
In designing your workshop, our colleagues appreciate:

• Clear openings and closings that enhance the workshop
• Clear descriptions of your program that help the right people attend
• Experiential elements in the program
• Time for questions and for sharing knowledge
• Informational handouts
• Materials or ideas that can be taken home to use immediately

Materials presenters will need to bring (if they plan to use them):

• Chalice, matches
• Copies of your handouts
• Books
• Visuals
• Display materials