I am an experienced and engaging trainer, both in-person and online. My motivation is to help people increasingly fulfil their potential and vocation: personally, relationally, and in an organisational context. I have led short online skill sessions, planned and hosted year-long programmes totalling nine days of residential training, and everything in between.
Some of the training I offer focuses primarily on the development of skills and competence: for instance, Enabling change well, and Time wisdom and prioritisation. Other options attend mainly at a deeper level, for instance offering introductions to psychological or physiological understanding.
My area of particular expertise is The divided brain, life and leadership, drawing on the pioneering neuroscientific work of Iain McGilchrist, and relating it to the practicalities of life and work. (This draws on my 2015 PhD from King’s College London, and is summarised in my forthcoming book, Fullness of Vision, Fullness of Life: the Divided Brain, Improvisation, and Leadership in the Church, due to be published Easter 2025.)
Most of my experience as a trainer has been in church contexts. The focus of my training is on personal and relational understanding, growth and maturing – and therefore relevant in every context.
My strong experience is that, on the one hand, single-session training can offer a turning point in many people’s lives – for instance, when they encounter a new concept or framework. On the other hand, many of us find it more difficult to sustain the turn that we’ve made without ongoing support or accompaniment. I am, therefore, keen to explore ways in which longer term development might be supported. One option is to arrange a follow-up session or two. Another is to supplement group training with subsequent 1:1 work, such as coaching, to embed and apply the learning.
Please get in touch if you’d like to explore further – jk@jkimber.co.uk