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The Office of Pastoral Life is honored to announce that Dean Harbry, PCC, will be the guest speaker at our Fall 2024 Synaxis Clergy Online Conference on Tuesday, September 17, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM ET. Dean will speak on the topic of “Parish Health From the Middle Way Perspective” and discuss how the Middle Way can help us maintain a balanced approach to personal and parish health. Come and listen to Dean Harbry and be ready to discuss with your brother clergy in small breakout rooms ways to stay within the Middle Way. Click on the one-minute video link below to listen to a brief word from Dean Harbry on the topic. The registration link is also below.
Dean Harbry is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), founder and president of the Middle Way Institute and operates an executive coaching and advisory firm. One of Dean’s missions is to assist Orthodox priests and parishes in promoting healthy human relationships and sound organizational cultures. His current, professional quest is to uncover, articulate and document how the Church has taught and inculcated virtue in its people. Dean and his family attend St. John the Wonderworker in Grant Park, GA, where he serves as a subdeacon.
Although the conference begins at 2:00 PM ET, the Zoom meeting will open for fellowship at 1:30 PM ET. After the keynote presentation, registered participants will be divided into groups of four to six clergy and sent into breakout rooms to further discuss the topic as it relates to the participants. The breakout session will last 80 minutes with a facilitator in each breakout room. The breakout session is based on the Peer Learning model where the interaction and relationship of the participants form a community of learning focused on priestly and pastoral ministry.
Whether you have enjoyed past Synaxis events or look forward to your first experience, please invite a clergy friend. Registration emails with the Zoom link have been sent to all emails listed in the OCA clergy directory. Once you register, you will receive an email with a unique link to join the meeting. You will need to join the meeting using the email account with which you registered.
The Synaxis Clergy Online Conferences, as part of the Office of Pastoral Life of the OCA, are intended to nurture spiritual brotherhood by offering a meeting place for our clergy to learn from one another, to support one another, and to be strengthened by their contact with one another, so that they may all be empowered to fight the good fight of faith. To find out more about the Office of Pastoral Life and its programs for clergy, please email secretary@opl.oca.org.
We look forward to seeing you online at the Fall 2024 Clergy Synaxis on Tuesday, September 17!
Meet Dean Harbry and hear what he will be sharing at Synaxis!
