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Interim Ministry Network's 28th Annual Conference
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Program -- Registration -- Accomodations -- Travel -- Workshops
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Dr. Richard Blackburn |
Richard Blackburn is Executive Director of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center, where he has served since 1984. He is an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church, and served ten years as chairperson of the Peace and Justice Committee of the Mennonite Church. Prior to his calling to the peace center ministry, Richard taught Art History at Trinity College, Goshen College, and Northern Illinois University. More recently he has taught conflict transformation skills at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Goshen College, and Southern Methodist University-in-Legacy as a component of his work with LMPC. Richard has led hundreds of workshops on conflict transformation and mediation skills; he has also had broad experience as a mediator and consultant, working primarily with conflicted churches, both at the congregational and judicatory level. For several years Richard participated in Dr. Edwin Friedman's "Post Graduate Clergy Seminar in Family Emotional Process." He also participated for four years in the "Postgraduate Program in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Its Applications" at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, D.C. Richard is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and a number of other professional organizations in the field of alternative dispute resolution. |
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