Rebuilding Faith Communities: Post Incident Recovery and Culture Change

Navigating the aftermath of a serious incident creates profound challenges, straining trust, fracturing relationships, and impacting community dynamics. Incidents affecting churches and congregations today can involve safeguarding allegations or cases, suspensions, serious breaches of trust or major conflicts. Leading or being part of a congregation that needs support through post-incident recovery while establishing a safe culture requires knowledge, skill, and practical tools.

Developed by Place for Hope, this brand-new training package is designed specifically to help you understand, navigate, and constructively address the impact of serious incidents within churches and the communities they serve. Driven directly by stakeholder feedback, we will balance expert-taught content with empowering, self-led reflection to support your pastoral, governance, and community work.

Learning Goals

• Understand the impact of serious incidents on culture and group dynamics
• Understand key principles of post-incident recovery and safety maintenance
• Apply at least two practical approaches to restoring community trust and implementing positive culture change
• Reflect on personal assumptions and responsibilities, and your role during recovery
• Gain confidence in leading or being part of a faith community safely and constructively through post-incident recovery