- Target audience: Church leaders, exercising a paid or volunteer ministry; mission managers, project managers of teams in connection with a community.
Seminar objectives:
- Discover the essential foundations for building healthy, resilient, inspired, and sustainable Church teams.
- Learn to effectively mobilize communities and engage volunteers within your Church.
- Acquire concrete tools and practical methods, inspired by the 18 key factors developed by Actitudes, to work in a more united, vibrant, and fruitful way.
Key themes:
- Mobilizing communities and volunteers.
- Working effectively and bearing fruit.
- Navigating changes and growing together.
Training content: The training is based on the “Sustainable Teams” methodology developed by Actitudes and the 18 key factors for efficient teamwork, which promotes sustainable, high-performing, and humanly engaged teams. This systemic approach uses the metaphor of the tree to illustrate the interdependence of elements essential to an organization's vitality. Many organizations and volunteer associations have already been able to develop their teams by working around these factors.
- The Crown : Represents the team's purpose and shared vision, innovation and value creation, as well as the beneficiary (“faithful”) experience.
- The Trunk and Branches : Symbolize team dynamics, collaboration and energy flow, including inspiring goals, work-life/ministry balance, conflict management and feedback, learning and growth, reliability and teamwork, and a positive attitude towards change.
- The Roots : Embody strong foundations such as supportive leadership, psychological safety, clarity of roles and processes, stakeholder and risk management, workplace design, resources and know-how, recognition and reward, communication, and strategy and priorities.
For lasting impact: anchoring and networking
To ensure a lasting impact for this “Sustainable Teams in Church” approach, this seminar will promote the anchoring of learning: you will be invited to form peer-to-peer follow-up pairs. We will also initiate discussion around the creation of a community of practice, a powerful lever for the continuous sharing of resources and best practices, thus extending the benefits of the training in the long term.
Practical information:
- Dates: Thursday, May 28 and Friday, May 29, 2026.
- Location: Crêt-Bérard in Puidoux, www.cret-berard.ch
- Schedule: Coffee reception from 8:30 AM. Training from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
- Price: CHF 390.– per person for the two days of training, all inclusive.
- Residential rates: CHF 100.– additional per person for the overnight stay and dinner (single room with shared WC-shower / double room with shared WC-shower); count 120.- for a comfort single room (private WC-shower).
- Minimum number of participants: 15 people.
- Registration deadline: March 28, 2026.
- Materials: A preliminary document on the 18 key factors for sustainable teams will be sent to registered participants before the seminar. A summary sheet of the 18 factors will be distributed at the end of the training.
Registration process:
The process takes place in two steps:
- Pre-registration (RSVP):
We invite you to express your interest in this seminar by pre-registering now. This step is free and allows us to assess the number of potential participants. Your pre-registration should be considered a commitment to participate. Our desire is to open this seminar to as many people as possible, and the exact number of pre-registrations is important for our organization. You will receive a confirmation of your pre-registration. - Registration confirmation: In February 2026, you will receive an invoice to confirm your definitive registration. Full payment of this invoice will validate your participation in the seminar. Invoice payment deadline (registration confirmation): March 15, 2026.
Cancellation policy:
In case of cancellation of your participation after payment of the invoice, and except in cases of force majeure (death of a loved one, serious illness, etc., with proof), the reservation amount will be retained and cannot be refunded.
