Thank you for creating a safe place to process, to learn, and to heal.

Knowledgeable, professional speakers, informal; relaxed setting, the questions asked by leaders during the interactive stage were excellent, encouraging, validating, safe; balance of conceptual, experiential and safety; the teaching on “sustainable resilience” and practicality on information on burnout; very helpful to our situation, interaction between presenters and us; allowing people to share their deep pains in a safe environment; great variety of presentations, topics really relevant; it was (all) great; affirming; great input, interaction and discussion, responding to what people shared, presenters were great-knowledgeable as well as humble and caring, thank you; safe, caring environment, qualified speakers, liked the stuff of not owning other peoples stuff.

Excellent; thanks so much I feel encouraged and supported; thank you for coming to our city...it was great to have it here; really appreciated and applicable; good day.

Really enjoyed the variety of speakers and the relevance of each topic, adaptable/flexible, practical examples of how to do ministry/not theory, obvious expertise offering opinions and knowledge; the role play helped visualize the point being made; enjoyed the entire experience...it was very good...helpful, affirming, practical and timely.

Thanks so much for slowing things down for us and for your dedication to pastoral leaders and their health!; Will be “chewing” on this for a long time; well done...you are teaching on the hot spot areas in the hearts of those who minister today...I like the space and affirmation for questions and wise answers; good job...great to have you in our city and our church.

Did you find this Workshop relevant and/or helpful to you and your ministry situation?

Excellent sharing and teaching, very encouraging...confirmed that we really are okay and doing good, showed us the areas that affect us and the importance of staying on top of it, just being with those I do ministry with was joyful to me, that material was great, I realized that there are people out there who understand what I go through, very helpful, rarely get to sit together with my spouse and listen to this kind of teaching, very practical, as you said our marriage and families need our best...not our worst, comforting to know we are not alone in these issues...that we can overcome them...thank you for the tools that we can apply...reminders to pray for each other and to take time for each other, most people rely on their home life to recharge their batteries...not realizing that their lack of effort at home results in poor performance at work...need to refocus and put more effort in at home.

What did you like most about the workshop?

The authentic stories, the exercises and the story of our ministry, practical information, speakers authentic, appreciated what both Bob and Penny had to share with us, the related styles stuff, the visual exercise with the blocks...it really brings everything into perspective, asking the right question about our relationship to each other, changing it up with couple exercises..men/women exercises and group, relational styles how we interact as a couple and the tools for building positivity were great, came from a place of being ‘real’...not having it altogether and going to the harder topics or places in our marriage rather than ignoring them...emphasized the priority that marriage should take in our lives, building positivity...5:1 Ratio, vocabulary of personalities, “Strengthening Ministry Marriages”, mapping is a way to see issues in a more objective way.

Other comments: Thank you for all that you do...It’s awesome to see how much you love and care for pastors...I really love that we are able to do this now so young in our ministry...I wish my parents could have gone through this when I was younger, great job...thank you for pouring into us...blessings, thank you and God bless you and your marriage as well, thank you and thank you church leadership for investing in this. The workshop was top notch! Great job Bob and Penny. The whole day went extremely well!

It validated how we feel about ourselves and the brokenness in our church and how we think God wants to fix it in a different model...build something new; great info on burnout and great to be able to hear what people are dealing with and how to work through it; I thought it was very relevant; embracing, helpful concepts, open talk dialogue led to good application; it confirmed for me many things that are going well in my life right now; it helped me process unnecessary expectations in life and ministry; I would say as a church we are on the edge of burnout; very helpful, great presentation, interaction, resources and material all relevant; relevant for my current situation; brought clarity to ‘tiredness’ and understanding myself better. Also provided tools for deeper exploration; entering into a new phase of ministry that will be more demanding. Good tools to mitigating potential problems (Preventative); very insightful and gave me tools for a healthy self and ministry; I found myself making many connections to our ministry team; spoke to heart issues where “l live”; first session this morning was great, Round table discussion was a good idea; a great, “safe” place to learn, grow, share and heal”; helped to make sense of the place we are in as we continue to recover from ministry burnout and clinical depression. Put some of our feelings and experiences into perspective. Thank you; the discussion and topics related to my ministry experience. I feel more at rest with being authentic with my ministry team and those I lead in the congregation.

Thank you for your heart and care for pastoral leaders; thanks again for authentically “pouring in” and for the great encouragement for the journey; This was a great and painful day...thank you!; Thanks – it was a very encouraging, refreshing workshop; fantastic; excellent; Thank you so much...this is so needed; Thanks for this ministry...it’s so badly needed...where else can you go to talk about these things?; Great stuff!; Thank you again for a wonderful and very applicable Health-Check Workshop; I know other pastors who could have benefited from this experience; will you bring this workshop to our community? I will let other others know about this ministry; Thank you for this very important ministry. Our time with you was very beneficial.

Thank you for creating a safe place to process, to learn, and to heal.

Knowledgeable, professional speakers, informal; relaxed setting, the questions asked by leaders during the interactive stage were excellent, encouraging, validating, safe; balance of conceptual, experiential and safety; the teaching on “sustainable resilience” and practicality on information on burnout; very helpful to our situation, interaction between presenters and us; allowing people to share their deep pains in a safe environment; great variety of presentations, topics really relevant; it was (all) great; affirming; great input, interaction and discussion, responding to what people shared, presenters were great-knowledgeable as well as humble and caring, thank you; safe, caring environment, qualified speakers, liked the stuff of not owning other peoples stuff.

Excellent; thanks so much I feel encouraged and supported; thank you for coming to our city...it was great to have it here; really appreciated and applicable; good day.

Really enjoyed the variety of speakers and the relevance of each topic, adaptable/flexible, practical examples of how to do ministry/not theory, obvious expertise offering opinions and knowledge; the role play helped visualize the point being made; enjoyed the entire experience...it was very good...helpful, affirming, practical and timely.

Thanks so much for slowing things down for us and for your dedication to pastoral leaders and their health!; Will be “chewing” on this for a long time; well done...you are teaching on the hot spot areas in the hearts of those who minister today...I like the space and affirmation for questions and wise answers; good job...great to have you in our city and our church.

Did you find this Workshop relevant and/or helpful to you and your ministry situation?

Excellent sharing and teaching, very encouraging...confirmed that we really are okay and doing good, showed us the areas that affect us and the importance of staying on top of it, just being with those I do ministry with was joyful to me, that material was great, I realized that there are people out there who understand what I go through, very helpful, rarely get to sit together with my spouse and listen to this kind of teaching, very practical, as you said our marriage and families need our best...not our worst, comforting to know we are not alone in these issues...that we can overcome them...thank you for the tools that we can apply...reminders to pray for each other and to take time for each other, most people rely on their home life to recharge their batteries...not realizing that their lack of effort at home results in poor performance at work...need to refocus and put more effort in at home.

What did you like most about the workshop?

The authentic stories, the exercises and the story of our ministry, practical information, speakers authentic, appreciated what both Bob and Penny had to share with us, the related styles stuff, the visual exercise with the blocks...it really brings everything into perspective, asking the right question about our relationship to each other, changing it up with couple exercises..men/women exercises and group, relational styles how we interact as a couple and the tools for building positivity were great, came from a place of being ‘real’...not having it altogether and going to the harder topics or places in our marriage rather than ignoring them...emphasized the priority that marriage should take in our lives, building positivity...5:1 Ratio, vocabulary of personalities, “Strengthening Ministry Marriages”, mapping is a way to see issues in a more objective way.

Other comments: Thank you for all that you do...It’s awesome to see how much you love and care for pastors...I really love that we are able to do this now so young in our ministry...I wish my parents could have gone through this when I was younger, great job...thank you for pouring into us...blessings, thank you and God bless you and your marriage as well, thank you and thank you church leadership for investing in this. The workshop was top notch! Great job Bob and Penny. The whole day went extremely well!

It validated how we feel about ourselves and the brokenness in our church and how we think God wants to fix it in a different model...build something new; great info on burnout and great to be able to hear what people are dealing with and how to work through it; I thought it was very relevant; embracing, helpful concepts, open talk dialogue led to good application; it confirmed for me many things that are going well in my life right now; it helped me process unnecessary expectations in life and ministry; I would say as a church we are on the edge of burnout; very helpful, great presentation, interaction, resources and material all relevant; relevant for my current situation; brought clarity to ‘tiredness’ and understanding myself better. Also provided tools for deeper exploration; entering into a new phase of ministry that will be more demanding. Good tools to mitigating potential problems (Preventative); very insightful and gave me tools for a healthy self and ministry; I found myself making many connections to our ministry team; spoke to heart issues where “l live”; first session this morning was great, Round table discussion was a good idea; a great, “safe” place to learn, grow, share and heal”; helped to make sense of the place we are in as we continue to recover from ministry burnout and clinical depression. Put some of our feelings and experiences into perspective. Thank you; the discussion and topics related to my ministry experience. I feel more at rest with being authentic with my ministry team and those I lead in the congregation.

Thank you for your heart and care for pastoral leaders; thanks again for authentically “pouring in” and for the great encouragement for the journey; This was a great and painful day...thank you!; Thanks – it was a very encouraging, refreshing workshop; fantastic; excellent; Thank you so much...this is so needed; Thanks for this ministry...it’s so badly needed...where else can you go to talk about these things?; Great stuff!; Thank you again for a wonderful and very applicable Health-Check Workshop; I know other pastors who could have benefited from this experience; will you bring this workshop to our community? I will let other others know about this ministry; Thank you for this very important ministry. Our time with you was very beneficial.