Larry A. Golemon, Editor, Finding Our Story: Narrative Leadership and Congregational Change. Alban Institute, 2009.
Referenced in: Narrative Leadership
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is one of several works on Narrative Leadership published by the Alban Institute. The focus on this volume is on the role of story in facilitating positive change in congregations.
Narrative Leadership reflects the belief that God’s story is woven with divine care in our stories, and that a leader called to work with others must come to grips with the story God is unfolding in his/her life over against living the stories that others write for us. One can then listen more appreciatively to the storied history of those in the congregation and discern why God has put them together to unfold his continuing story in each of them.
From the Publisher
Helping a community of faith ‘re-vision’ its personal and collective narratives is one of the greatest leadership challenges of the age. In Finding Our Story, Larry Golemon, lead researcher of the Alban Institute’s Narrative Leadership in Ministry project, has assembled essays by congregational consultants who use the power of story to help congregations heal, strengthen, and reinvent themselves. These consultants describe how narrative therapy works, explore its promise and its challenges, and share the practical wisdom of their own experiences along with their favorite models of narrative change to show how congregations can be transformed by reauthoring the operative stories they live by.
About the Author
Rev. Dr. Larry A. Golemon, an ordained Presbyterian minister, is a research associate for the Alban Institute. He is a regular consultant in seminary education and recently directed the Ecumenical Project at Virginia Theological Seminary. Prior to joining the Alban staff, Larry served on the research team of the Carnegie Foundation’s Clergy Education study, published as Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination.
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