Pastors Health & Wellness

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Emotional

Relational

  • Be a People Person – John Maxwell
  • Conflict Free Living: How To Build Healthy Relationships For Life – Joyce Meyer
  • Emotionally Healthy Relationships – Peter Scazzero
  • Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - Dr John Gottman

Ministry Marriages Workshops

The Art & Science of Love Workshops” – created by Drs John & Julie Gottman
To join local workshops contact Gavin Brown – gavin@raphahealth.com.au 07 3485 0800

Physical

  • Pastors: Your Physical Health Matters Too – Rick Warren
  • Think and Eat Yourself Smart – Dr Caroline Leaf
  • Rest: Why you get more done when you work less – Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
  • The Body Keeps A Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk MD

Sexual Health Resources

  • Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time – Fred Stoeker & Stephen Arterburn
  • Conquer Series – Dr Ted Roberts
  • Dating Babylon – by Nicky Dent

Mind

Vocational

  • The Pastor – Eugene Peterson
  • On Managing yourself – HBR Books
  • Working with Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
  • Integrity – Henry Cloud
  • Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership – Gary L. McIntosh & Samuel D. Rima. Sr.
  • Peoplecare – The website for the digital discipleship platform of resources put together by Dr Robbi Sonderegger and a suite of experts in their field to assist pastors and churches renew minds and transform lives without a psychology degree: peoplecare.global
  • Managing Leadership Anxiety – Steve Cuss
  • Secrets of Highly Successful Groups – Daniel Coyle
  • Meta Church: How to Use Digital Ministry to Reach People & Make Disciples – Dave Adamson
  • Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team & Staff on the Same Page – Larry Osborne
  • White Paper on Professional Supervision prepared for ACC VIC Executive – by Rev Dr Grant Buchanan
  • A Vital Tool in a Leader’s Toolbox – Professional Pastoral Supervision and its Value and Opportunities for Leadership in Australian Christian Churches
  • Six Types of Geniuses – by Patrick Lencioni
  • Beyond Half Time: Practical Wisdom for Your Second Half – by Bob Buford (great book for Transitions)
  • Rest in the Storm – Self care Strategies for Clergy and other Caregivers – by Kirk Byron Jones
  • The Vulnerable Pastor – by Mandy Smith
  • Reveals the 7 core issues that take people out: cynicism, compromise, disconnectedness, irrelevance, pride, burnout & the emptiness of success
  • The Blunder Bus Podcast Series  The BlunderBus on Apple Podcasts  
  • Hear honest conversations with great leaders about some of their greatest leadership disasters. It's possible to learn more from your moments of failure than your moments of success

Spiritual

  • The Divine Conspiracy – Dallas Willard
  • The Spirit of the Disciplines – Dallas Willard
  • Eat this Book – Eugene Peterson
  • Spiritual Leadership – Henry & Richard Blackaby
  • Do we really need Ethics? – spiritualdirection.org.au/resources/code-of-ethics/
  • The Sacred Slow – Alicia Britt Chole
  • Praying Like Monks Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder & Mystery of Prayer
  • My Rock My Refuge: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms by Timothy Keller 
  • Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Humanity. – by Saundra Dalton Smith M.D.
  • Spiritual First Aid – Lecturers from Wheaton (8 x 20 min videos) – spiritualfirstaid.org/free
  • Didn’t See it Coming: Overcoming the Seven Greatest Challenges No One Expects but Everyone Experiences” by Carey Neiuwhof