Best Practices Institute

The Best Practices Programme

The Best Practices Institute offers AST graduates and other church leaders

• sustained professional learning opportunities,
• collaborative interaction with colleagues
• leadership from world-class and local experts

Established in 2005, the Institute hosts annual intensive 2-day workshops each September. Leaders wanting in depth engagement with the subject, continue with an 8 month facilitated peer learning Cohort Program which results in a publication of their learning and best practice observations.

Past BPIs

The Best Practices Institute has offered such acclaimed presenters as

• Lorna Benjamin Smith co-director of the Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy Clinic, Utah, developer of the Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour (Best Practices I)
• John Bell, composer, musician and liturgist from the Iona Community (Best Practices II)
• Peter Steinke, author of best selling Healthy Congregations and How Your Church Family Works and Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times  (Best Practices III)
• Brian McLaren, speaker, leadership mentor and author of Church in Emerging Culture, A Generous Orthodoxy (Best Practices IV)

For Best Practices V, Beyond Games and Soup Kitchens, we are thrilled to be able to offer Rodger Nishioka , speaker, educator and specialist in the area of ministry with youth and young adults.

Facilitator Janet Marshall brings expertise and experience as a consultant in the field of church development. She has worked extensively facilitating context and identity based strategic visioning with churches, their denominational structures, and with other volunteer organizations facing substantial change. She is also active in developing resource, leading workshops and facilitating self-assessment ministry reviews, conflict management, governance redesign, and leadership coaching.