Greetings and welcome!

It is exciting to be offering you and other helping professionals the opportunity to join together in mutual care and support through the learning and development community of the Renewal Network. We are creating a place of honoring, listening, reflecting, and contributing, where people who help others can come together to be refreshed, find more peace and clarity, and build joyful connections in growth and service.

In the Network, you join an ongoing conversation of exploration and integration. You can become more aware of the energy and personality dynamics of your service work and more present to your authentic power and presence. The joy and ease that unfold from this awareness and this community has the potential to affect not only the people and organizations you serve directly, but also other people around you and your larger professional helping community.

Imagine seeing the challenges and issues that arise as opportunities to have deeper, richer relationships, with yourself and the world around you with greater joy, excitement, compassion, and presence. Imagine the power of a group energy wave created when people who care for others know how to care for themselves, are supported, and can find the synergistic place of “win-win” outcomes rather than burn out in self-sacrifice or stress. As we learn to relate and create different patterns, a different culture and reality begins to take shape.

I invite you to come join in this dance and direction of evolution.

— Rev. Joseph Hiller, M.Div.

Dean of the Institute of Professional Development