PEACEFUL PATHWAYS
Navigating Church Conflict with Grace
This eight-module, self-paced course equips church members and leaders with practical tools and spiritual insight to address conflict with clarity, humility, and grace. Through guided reflection, restorative practices, and downloadable workbooks, Peaceful Pathways helps you foster trust, repair relationships, and embed peace-making into the heart of church life.
Peaceful Pathways: Navigating Church Conflict with Grace
What You’ll Explore
Throughout the course, you’ll be guided through a gentle, reflective journey that helps you:
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Understand the deeper roots of church conflict
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Prepare your heart through prayer, self-awareness, and discernment
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Communicate with clarity, kindness, and emotional safety
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Set healthy boundaries with compassion and wisdom
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Create shared commitments that foster trust and accountability
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Respond wisely to escalation and protect vulnerable individuals
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Restore relationships through reconciliation and celebration
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Sustain peace by embedding it into discipleship and leadership culture
Each module includes downloadable workbooks, facilitator guides, and practical activities to support both individual reflection and group engagement.
Eight Session Overview
Session 1: Understanding Church Conflict Explore the spiritual, emotional, and relational dynamics that shape tension in church life.
Session 2: Preparing the Heart Reflect on personal triggers, relational patterns, and the role of prayerful discernment.
Session 3: Communication and Clarity Learn how to speak truth with grace, listen well, and foster emotionally safe dialogue.
Session 4: Boundaries and Capacity Discover how to set limits with compassion and honour emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Session 5: Relational Agreements and Team Culture Craft shared commitments that build trust, kindness, and accountability in group settings.
Session 6: Responding to Escalation Gain tools for navigating heightened conflict, engaging mediators, and protecting the vulnerable.
Session 7: Restoring Relationships Facilitate reconciliation conversations and celebrate healing after conflict.
Session 8: Sustaining Peace Embed peace-making into discipleship culture and commission leaders for ongoing restoration.
Arranged by Leston,
Founder - Discipleship Foundation
Leston has been involved in pastoral ministry for nearly thee decades, serving in a variety of contexts, with a heart for both theological depth and compassionate care. He holds a Doctorate in Pastoral Studies, along with post-graduate qualifications in Counselling and in Psychotherapy. He is also an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.
Over the years, and through ongoing learning, Leston has grown increasingly committed to helping Christians explore a practical, Spirit-led approach to discipleship—one that honours spiritual formation, emotional wellbeing, integrates therapeutic insight, and remains rooted in Scripture. His desire is to support the whole person: head, heart, and hands.
Whether walking alongside individuals facing anxiety or low mood, or gently supporting leaders and churches in seasons of transition, Leston’s hope is to see others restored, grounded, and growing in the grace of their calling.
