Devise an Action Plan to Guide You in the 21st Century and Beyond with the Visioning Workshop

Imagine: The key leader in your congregation has just bestowed upon you the responsibility for all major decisions, including its future...

Would you know how to:

Engage the members	Create a vision
Encourage ownership	Prioritize ministries
Devise a plan of action	Set it all in motion

Imagine: accomplishing all the above in just two days.  It can be done -- with a professional facilitator.  How does this work?

A Professional Facilitator Outlines and Conducts the Visioning Workshop

1. Readiness for Change
   What's working?  What needs changing?  What's not being said?
2. Creating a Vision
   Everyone expresses in writing what they see, hear, and feel. The final vision statement evolves from the combined efforts and wisdom of the members.
3. Everything Ties In
   All the congregation will accomplish is linked to the vision. Primary categories are identified and prioritized by the members.
4. Action Plan
   What action must you take in the next three years for your congregation to meet your goals, "realize it's vision"? Ways to measure your progress are identified.
5. Tracking Success
   What must happen in the first twelve months to reach your three year goal?  Who will be responsible for each step of the way?

Meet Ken Hirsch

"The visioning process can positively transform an organization."

- Kenneth Jay Hirsch, AIA

Kenneth Jay Hirsch, AIA is recognized as an architect with a keen sense of the future. As a professional facilitator, he combines his unique graphic sense with group participation skills to create an environment where the congregation's goals are solidified, obstacles are hurdled, and dreams are dreamt. Ken employs his facilitating skills, acting as a catalyst for growth and positive change, both for the congregation and its individual members.

Ken's creative problem-solving skills and process design techniques address actual issues and attainable outcomes. He is an experienced churchman, and enjoys working with people, and helping them to achieve goals of their own and those of the congregation. He has successfully served as a facilitator for denominations, and congregation throughout the country.

The single most important issue of the process is joint ownership of the vision.

Vision is a statement of the congregation's passion and purpose for being. The Facilitator objectively assists the congregation in getting from where it is now to where it wants to be. The visioning process is based on everyone's involvement in establishing a shared vision. The facilitator guides the members through a series of challenging exercises to seek common commitments (i.e.: ministries, spiritual gifts, and goals). Good leaders focus on what's being said. Individuals are empowered to speak frankly about what's working, what needs changing, and what's not being said during the visioning process. The 20 year vision is often viewed as a fresh approach to past and present successes.

" I have been Director of Visioning.  It is now a position on the churches board of directors, which is a clear indication of how important the congregation feels the process is."

John Mundinger, Christ the King Lutheran Church, Memphis, TN

" Everyone here was impressed with your ability to lead us through a visioning process.  You do a good job of formulating the responses to form a clear understanding of what is being said. "

Rev. Peter Heckman,  St. Mark Lutheran Church,  Edmond, OK