Healthy Practices for Healthy Communities

Boundary Training in the Synod of Lincoln Trails

Thanks to the generosity of the Synod of Lincoln Trails, presbyteries in Indiana and Illinois are offering in-person and online opportunities for healthy boundaries training.

Healthy Practices for Healthy Communities, developed and led by our presbytery leaders, re-frames boundary training as formation rather than enforcement. Its goal is to cultivate resilient, reflective, and relationally wise leaders who can navigate conflict, burnout, and ethical complexity with greater courage, discernment, and care.

While most of the boundary trainings that we experience focus on the important boundaries related to sexual misconduct, healthy ministry encompasses and goes beyond this aspect of pastoral relationship. In fact, healthy ministry is a practice within communities of dynamic, often messy human relationships.

In this workshop we’ll explore pastoral ministry and boundaries within communities of practice, discovering essential approaches to healthy ministry rooted in clearer self-knowledge, enhanced capacities for self-differentiation, contextual understanding for effective everyday boundary setting, and greater facility to act from a healthy center—essential tools for meaningful, life-giving relationships.

For more information, click here to read an article by Dr. Rebecca Blair.

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Boundaries Training 2026

Registration for October 26, 2026 (Bloomington, Indiana)

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This form is to register ONLY for the October 26th Session in Bloomington. To register for any other session, click on the links above to go to websites of the other Presbyteries.

Please note: Do not fill out this form more than once. After registering, if you need to cancel your registration for October 26th, email Rhonda Seymour (rhonda@presbyteryov.org). For all other dates, please communicate with the Presbytery sponsoring that session. 

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