FURTHER RESOURCES

PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Team Leader/Supervisor Apprenticeship Level 3

First line management training, for those new into management or wanting to move into a management position.

Operations or departmental Manager Level 5

For those who manage teams and/or projects who wish to gain formal management training or further develop their leadership and management skills, knowledge, and behaviours.

Senior Leader Level 7

For those who have responsibility for strategic leadership and direction relating to their area of work. The apprenticeship provides learning to further their skills, knowledge and behaviours within their role.

Faith Based Leadership Level 7

For those senior and emerging senior leaders from across a variety of faiths, from faith-based organisations and from governmental and non-governmental organisations that deal with faith-based issues as part of their everyday life.

ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring

The ‘ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching’ course is designed for the delegate to learn the skills and structures to be able to coach to a high standard, during both planned and impromptu coaching sessions.

ILM L3 Certificate in Workplace Coaching

Learn key coaching skills and how to apply them Understand how to manage coaching sessions and support colleagues See how to bring coaching approaches to your everyday interactions with colleagues

SVQ 3 Social Services and Healthcare (Scotland only)

The course offers a deep dive into the essential aspects of the industry, enabling you to enhance your expertise and contribute significantly to your workplace. The course covers a wide range of topics relevant to the social services and healthcare sector.

SVQ 4 Social Services & Healthcare (Scotland only)

Learners will gain an international recognised qualification which guarantees that they have the skills, knowledge and abilities required to carry out their role successfully.

SVQ in Care Services Leadership and Management (Scotland only)

This is a robust and certificated qualification which equips individuals with a range of knowledge, skills and values to enable them to take on the leadership and management challenges facing care services today.

BA (Hons) in Theology, Mission and Ministry, with a specialism in Youth Work

This course is focused on your personal, intellectual, missional, ministry and spiritual formation.

BA (Hons) Applied Theology Youth and Community Work with JNC

Our Applied Theology, Youth and Community Work degree has been designed to give you a firm foundation on which to build. It will equip you to serve God in practical and relevant ways in dynamic youth work contexts.

Diploma of Higher Education Applied Theology (Youth Studies)

Two year programme that equips you to work with young people from the foundation of a strong grasp of the Bible and a deep insight into the key issues facing young people today.

Level 4 Certificate in Professional Development (Youth Work Leadership and Management)

This qualification supports the skills and knowledge learners need to become a competent Youth Support Worker.

Community Managers’ Conference

The conference provides a learning environment to help equip Community Managers and those in similar roles to engage with their local communities, mirroring best practice. Providing an opportunity to network and learn from other’s practice.

Whole Life Discipleship Training

It is offered via the Frontline Conference, but in February it will be part of the Mission Conference. There are three streams: (1) Introduction (2) Whole-Life Preaching (3) Whole-Life Worship.

There is no resource that is directly related to this specific suite of training courses, but the organisations that are behind the training are the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity and Engage Worship.

Communities of practice

Communities of Practice can accelerate professional development across an organisation, break down silos that exist, enable the sharing of knowledge and the building of better practice. They can also help build better teams and happier more motivated people. We can work with you in several ways; from delivering a workshop on what a Community of Practice is, to supporting you in the design and facilitating of a new Community of Practice.

Refugee Response Forum

A monthly online community of practice for people working in, or interested in learning more about, refugee and asylum response.

Contact: [email protected]

Coaching Programme

TSA’s Coaching programme provides a safe space to reflect and explore topics/ issues and next steps. The programme offers 6 x 1:1 coaching sessions with an internal, accredited coach who will provide support, encouragement, challenge and accountability to help you maximise your potential and achieve your goals.

FORGE

FORGE is a nine month intentional course to develop missional leadership and practice. Integral to the course are the group coaching sessions to help individuals with their missional practice.

For enquiries about FORGE please email the Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler at: [email protected]

MOVEMENT LEADERS COLLECTIVE

A network of Mission Movement makers.
Resourcing the above to be more effective in an ever changing world through a variety of different training experiences, each taking six months with bi-monthly sessions.

For enquiries about MLC Accelerator or LAB please email the Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler at: [email protected]

ACCESSIBLE PROPHECY

Is a twelve month course of 24 x 1 hour sessions aiming to develop the prophetic gifting in individuals. This is done through small huddles of 3-4, giving teaching, practice and coaching in the prophetic.

For enquiries about Accessible Prophecy please email Andrea Vertigan (Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler) at [email protected]

To Serve course

To Serve is a course designed for people exploring Salvation Army soldiership. It aims to equip soldiers, motivated by Christian faith, inspired by history and dedicated to changing the world with love, innovation and service to God and others. Through 16 sessions the course helps recruits understand and apply The Salvation Army’s doctrines, encouraging them in their discipleship and in their faith.

Terrain

A year-long immersive discipleship course for 18 to 25-year-olds, specifically exploring the life of Jesus through the four gospels.

Foundations: Growing in Leadership

This unit, Foundations: Growing in Leadership, introduces students to key approaches in self-management, leadership and teamwork for Christian mission and ministry. The unit provides an introduction to models and practices that will enable students to develop as reflective Christian leaders.

PIONEER BITESIZE

Exploring the history, vision and pioneering movement of the Salvation Army. It is an introduction to pioneering and the Salvation Army, how the SA started as a pioneering movement, how the SA is pioneering today and encouraging those doing the course to think what and how they could be pioneering.

Persuading Others (for Managers)

Build your influence using a range of highly effective communication tactics.

Giving Feedback (for Managers)

Share timely, actionable feedback in a way that people feel good about acting on.

Circle of Influence

In tough times, you might feel helpless to direct your destiny. Dr. Stephen R. Covey explains how to make your worries shrink and your Circle of Influence® grow.

Setting Goals

Identify and set challenging yet realistic goals that your team is excited to work toward

Managing Energy (for Managers)

Prioritize your own physical and mental health for sustained performance

Be proactive to help other people understand what you need

It’s easy to assume that others see and understand what you need—and will act accordingly. But in reality, you often have to be proactive to get your needs met.

Assess your team's feedback culture

When you and your direct reports feel comfortable giving and receiving feedback regularly and openly, your team members will feel empowered and motivated to improve in their work—and succeed together.

So, how many of these 15 best practices do you and your team do regularly?

Adaptability

Stay flexible and turn times of uncertainty into opportunity.

CY Spotlight

Spotlight is a monthly video interview with a youth leader. These youth leaders have a story to tell. What is God doing in their lives and the lives of young people? What are the young people’s needs and how do they meet them? What are they learning?

The All Terrain Podcast

Join host Jo Taylor as she invites a guest to take a hypothetical hike, as they make four choices and answer four questions along the way:

How do we face change?
How do we move through suffering?
How do we receive joy?
How do we mature in service?

Stress Busting

In this course, we’ll look at what stress is, identify its sources, and also how to tackle it. The course also lists the main sources of help and support available to help you tackle stress.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence, also known as our EQ, is the ability to deeply understand ourselves and what happens around us. We all have Emotional Intelligence and the good news is that we can all develop it further. And by developing our EQ we can set ourselves up to succeed in all aspects of our lives.

Confidence and Motivation

This ‘Confidence & Motivation’ course is aimed at anyone wanting to understand more about how confidence and motivation can be affected and how they can be improved. The course will detail stages a person will go through to improve their confidence and motivation and also provide practical support and techniques to improve them.

Understanding Grief

Time Management

Effective Decision Making

This course aims to help the learner identify and evaluate their decision making processes so they can move towards their goals. The course will also help to highlight how the decisions we make every day affect our life overall.

Facilitation Skills

This Facilitation skills course details the modes of facilitation and how they differ from other team development approaches. The course explores a powerful approach to team development – facilitation – and the skills needed to make it work.

6 Active Listening Tips

6 active listening tips (from spunout.ie)

Regulation & Relating: Homelessness-Conference-2024

Meet our homelessness services teams and residents who explain how our trauma-informed care and services are making a difference.

Open Learning Course: Slavery (BSF11A)

This course is designed to highlight some of the continuing problems of slavery today. The course also looks at what the bible says about slavery.

Open Learning Course: On Virtue (BSF11B)

This course is designed to explore and understand what virtue ethics is and how it can be applied to your life.

Open Learning Course: Pornography (BSF11C)

This course is designed to explore the ethical and Biblical implications of pornography.

Open Learning Course: Abortion (BSF11D)

This course is designed to explore what The Salvation Army and the Bible say about abortion.

Open Learning Course: Dementia (BSF13 or BSA7)

This course on dementia and spiritual care is written from a personal perspective. It aims to introduce you to dementia and begins to look at a community model of spiritual care.

Open Learning Course: What am I worth? (BSF14)

In this study you will be encouraged to explore what the Bible says about the worth of every human being. You will also be prompted to reflect on what difference this makes to our view of ourselves and other people.

Open Learning Course: Bereavement (BSF15)

This course is designed to help our understanding of loss and bereavement and its impact. It will also offer insight into how to support those affected by bereavement.

Open Learning Course: An introduction to Pastoral Care (F15)

This course aims to provide an introduction to the field of pastoral care. Throughout the 6 lessons it provides information, and asks for learner participation, in order to explore some historical, biblical and contemporary concepts which are also related to the learner’s personal experience and/or ministry. This course also considers vital aspects that surround the practice of providing pastoral care within a faith-based context, such as the possible dangers involved and how to develop good practice.

Open Learning Course: An Introduction to Christian Spiritual Formation (F16)

This course aims to introduce Christian Spiritual Formation. Throughout the 6 lessons it provides information, and asks for learner participation, to explore some historical, biblical, and contemporary concepts which are also related to the learner’s personal experience and/or ministry.

Open Learning Courses: Biblical Studies

Choose from a variety of different courses based on books, concepts and characters from the Old and New Testaments.

Open Learning Course: Exploring Christian heritage

This course aims to introduce you to the writing of people who have had an important influence on Christian spirituality over the centuries. You will also be encouraged to reflect on how what they have shared can help you in the development of your faith, and in supporting others on their faith journey.

FIRST STEPS IN PIONEERING

First Steps in Pioneering is an introduction to Pioneering and an opportunity to explore whether this is something that God may be drawing them to or laying on their heart. It’s a short course of 6 x 90-minute sessions.

For enquiries about First Steps email the Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler at: [email protected]

PIONEER COACHING: GROW model

Foundation coach training course teaching coaching skills and the GROW model. A fast paced practical course delivered online via Zoom over two full days. For enquiries about Coach Training please email Andrea Vertigan (Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler) at [email protected]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

This world renowned course highlights how using its transformational principles can help you move towards a more effective and meaningful work and personal life.

You will learn how to take initiative, balance key priorities, improve interpersonal communication, build creative collaboration, and apply principles for achieving a more balanced life.

Leading at the Speed of Trust

Leading at the Speed of Trust helps leaders strengthen their trust signals to convert trust taxes into trust dividends and propel their team further, faster.

Parenting as a church leader

Parenting as a Church Leader course is exclusively designed for all those balancing family life with vocational ministry, whether you’re in church leadership or married to someone who is.

Changing Seasons

Modular year long course to equip people for ministry with older people. Also helps prepare officers for retirement.

Raise: Children’s Leaders Training

This course is designed to equip all prospective volunteer children’s leaders for their work with children, with other leaders, and with families within a Salvation Army context; and to provide learners with a taste of what it is like to work in the field of children’s leadership.

Raise: Youth Leaders Training

This course is designed to equip youth leaders and anyone who wants to engage in ministry with young people in The Salvation Army. Run in person and online.

Neurodiversity Awareness for Managers

Designed for managers, senior leaders and your existing teams that want to increase their awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace.

Servant Assertiveness

The course will: equip participants with knowledge of behaviors related to assertiveness, develop skills for improving communication, and it will explore Biblical views of assertiveness. Other skills that will be developed include listening skills, framing requests, saying ‘no’, giving and receiving feedback, and handling difficult conversations.

Emotional Regulation

Understanding the importance of emotional regulation and our ability to avoid burnout and vicarious trauma.

Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice

In this short course, we delve into the impact of trauma and its far-reaching implications on our mental and emotional well-being.

Emotional Wellbeing and Resilience

Emotional Wellbeing and Resilience examines how principles based in emotional intelligence, reflective practice, and mindfulness can lead to an emotionally informed, emotionally integrated, and emotionally healthier workplace and work practice – for us and for the people we serve.

PIONEER ASSESSMENT

The Pioneer Assessment affirms an individual’s journey and desire to pioneer. It also ascertains what kind/type of pioneer they are.

(The pioneer assessment process is outlined in the Pioneer & FX Guidebook). Delivered online via Zoom or Teams. One full day with some pre-assessment preparation and work required.

For enquiries about a Pioneer Assessment, please have a conversation with your DHQ rep or email the Territorial Pioneer and FX Enabler at [email protected]

Generous Discipleship

Teaching and support (through buddying, mentoring, shadowing etc) to journey with corps to help understanding of the discipleship of personal giving and what can happen when its truly sacrificial.