Flourishing in Real Life Kaitlyn Wood and Tim Norton

In this episode of the Flourishing Church Podcast, Dana Allin brings back Mike Bonem to talk about his new book The Art of Leading Change: Ten Perspectives on the Messiness of Ministry. The two discuss the difficulties of change as well as areas that we need to pay attention to as leaders. Mike spends some time discussing the importance of culture in change as well as areas like trust, communication, and courage.

On this episode of the Flourishing Church Podcast, Dana Allin and John Terech share the second part of their conversation about our individual wiring as leaders. In this installment, they review "soft" wiring traits and how we can maximize the positive aspects of these traits and suggest ways to manage the challenges. The two share specific resources and assessments Flourish offers to better understand ourselves flourishing as disciples and flourishing leaders.

On this episode of the Flourishing Church Podcast, John Terech and Dana Allin discuss our personal hardwiring as leaders. They talk about how we can utilize assessments and tools to better understand our own internal operating system and how that affects us in all areas of our lives. In part 1 of 2 episodes, the two discuss the use of a tool called the ProScan assessment to look at different personality traits to help you understand what you can do with the information you have learned about yourself, your whole team, your current ministry role, or next new job!

On this episode of the Flourishing Chuch Podcast, Dana Allin and John Terech discuss the sometimes controversial model of what it means to have a successful church using a scorecard mentality when it comes to church health and discipleship. They address the question "If we are going to adopt a scorecard framework toward church health, what would that look like and how do we get people on board to follow the same scorecard?" They go over different areas of difficulty and importance when discussing how churches measure their success and answer their own question "Are we doing what God has called us to do as leaders and as a church?"

In this episode of the Flourishing Church Podcast our cohosts, John Terech and Dana Allin, relaunch the podcast into a new season of episodes. The two discuss the benefits of coaching and how in Flourish Movement we try to take a caching posture in all that we do and offer. They define coaching and the differences between coaching, mentoring, and counseling, while also looking at what it really means to have a coaching mindset as leaders.

In this episode of the Flourishing Church Podcast, Bill Couchenour and Dana Allin discuss the effects the COVID-19 has had on the church and some of the biggest challenges and blessings Bill has seen in this season of church ministry and leadership development. The two go over some of the questions that established churches can be asking about church planting, micro-expressions of church and the work of missional communities.