LEADERWISE LEARNING HOURThriving as a Highly Sensitive Clergyperson
From "Too Sensitive" to Embracing Your Insight and Empathy with Laura Horton-Ludwig
If you’re highly sensitive, your gifts of empathy, intuition, and creativity are incredibly powerful tools for ministry. But ministry can also take a real toll on you, with its constant, varied demands, conflicts, and emergencies. And because of your high sensitivity, a lot of the standard training and advice about ministry may not work for you. In this 60-minute session, you'll gain clarity on the gifts and challenges of being a highly sensitive clergyperson, plus ideas and resources for how to make changes in your habitual practices of ministry so you can thrive more fully.
Laura Horton-Ludwig
About Laura: After nearly 20 years serving as minister for Unitarian Universalist congregations from Illinois to California to Virginia, today Laura has a private practice at laurahortonludwig.com offering spiritual direction, coaching, and shamanic work for sensitive souls ready to reclaim their power, sparkle, and joy. She lives in Williamsburg, VA, with her husband and their dog and cat, as well as the many trees and wild creatures who share the land with them. This year, she is also serving the UU Fellowship of Santa Cruz County, CA, in an experimental mostly-remote ministry.
FEBRUARY 25
1 hour, starting at 1P ET / noon CT / 11A MT / 10A PT
free, Online via Zoom
The LeaderWise Learning Hour
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Learn from LeaderWise and experience the support that so many have said they wish they had known about sooner. When you access wisdom from LeaderWise along with expertise from our connected partners, you can build a stronger resource base from which to lead. Each quarter in 2025, join LeaderWise at no-cost to learn from an expert about a topic, to share conversation with peers, and to download helpful resources for your files. We know that ministry leadership is more difficult now than ever and that many leaders feel they are alone. Register today for our first session taking place February 25 featuring Laura Horton-Ludwig and her work with highly-sensitive clergy. A recording of the presentation (but not the conversation) will be available for those who can’t attend live.
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