[Leadership Case Studies] Navigating Power and Dual Relationships

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When power and dual relationships in your church are not carefully considered, you may be on the road to deep pain, confusion, and division.

In this episode, Pete reads five case studies from leaders who are navigating this delicate tension and he draws from difficult personal lessons he's learned to offer leadership wisdom.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scazzara. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:08.1	podcast. Great to be with you. And our title today is Leadership Case Studies, Power and Dual
0:14.2	Relationships. Now, leadership case studies are just a fascinating way to learn, a fascinating way to teach.
0:22.5	So I'll be doing this periodically.
0:24.4	I've done it now a couple of times and gotten a tremendous response.
0:28.9	And so, but I'm going to put these around the theme of power and dual relationships.
0:33.8	But let me invite you to send you a case study in around leadership that you're
0:37.7	struggling with or wrestling with. Just go to www.motionally healthy.org slash case study. That's
0:45.6	emotionally healthy.org slash case study. There's a form, kind of an outline to help you
0:49.9	structure it, your challenges and questions you're holding. And who knows? It may make a future podcast.
0:56.2	You just, you'll check if you want it to be anonymous. And I'll change some of the details, all right.
1:02.2	So let me make a couple of introductory comments about power and dual relationships.
1:06.4	And then let's jump into the case study. So it's a very challenging theme, very difficult theme,
1:13.0	and not a lot has been written about it. And actually, it came out of for me, after about,
1:19.8	oh, probably by year 20 of being a pastor leader, of watching my own challenges and struggles and breakdowns around power and dual
1:29.9	relationships as we move from a tight-knit community into a larger and larger church. Now, I've been
1:37.2	part of a parochurch ministry in my early years where there was little issues of at least
1:41.6	hierarchy formally. But when I got to the church world, it did really
1:46.0	shift. And we started our church. We're all family, brothers and sisters. And there was just
1:52.0	little understanding of this whole theme of dual relationships and power. And so I spent some years,
2:00.1	and the word is years, learning and wrestling and asking questions of people who led communities, all types of communities, from monastic communities, to parochurch communities, to every different stripe of church tradition, all different sizes, parts of the country.
2:21.1	And eventually, out of all tradition, all different sizes, parts of the country, and eventually, out of all that,
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