Diocese of Portsmouth
The Church of England

Events

Training

  • 17 Jun 2025
    in Training

    Multiply 2025

    At Multiply 2025, CCX will immerse you in stories of creativity and renewal from across the Church, equipping you with lessons from the latest research and insights from frontline practitioners, sharing tools that can shape our churches for the spiritual formation of missionary disciples. Read more

  • 23 Jun 2025
    in Training

    Reclaiming Evangelism

    One of the largest barriers to evangelism is the (false, we think!) idea that in order to be “evangelistic”, the practitioner needs to become someone that they’re not – someone with a different theology, spiritual type, or personality. This workshop will explore reclaiming evangelism across the theological and contextual continuum. Read more

  • 26 Jun 2025
    in Training

    Leadership, Imagination and Innovation

    Organisations have invariably been based on predictable, linear understandings of change and agency. Leadership is therefore often about knowledge, authority and making the right decisions. New understandings of organisations, drawing on the field of complex adaptive systems, open up very different ways of conceptualising leadership. This half-day online course will explore this thinking practically and theologically. We will explore in particular how such thinking reimagines leadership as a means of creating the right kind of environment for creativity, imagination and innovation within the ministry and mission of the church. Read more

  • 1 Jul 2025
    in Training

    We Believe, We Belong? – USPG Conference 2025

    Join USPG for their annual conference filled with inspiring talks, interactive workshops, and a chance to reconnect with friends, new and old. This in-person event will be held at the Hayes Conference Centre. Read more

  • 2 Jul 2025
    in Training

    Rural learning lunchtimes

    Join with other rural practitioners to learn, listen and refresh over a series of three online sessions at lunchtime. Each session presents an expert in conversation, a chance for discussion, an opportunity for prayer and reflection, and time for questions. Read more

  • 17 Jul 2025
    in Training

    WEBINAR: Managing Change

    Part of a series of monthly webinars for clergy and Readers.

    Richard Pheasant, direcotr and senior trainer with Bespoke Business Training Ltd, talks us through the challenges of change, and presents some useful strategies for managing it well. Read more

  • 18 Jul 2025
    in Training

    Webmaster Training Day

    This annual training session is part of our ongoing support for webmasters in our diocese and for the websites run as part of the diocesan Wordpress scheme. Read more

  • 2 Sep 2025
    in Training

    WEBINAR: Starting and growing children’s ministry

    Join us for the latest in a series of monthly webinars for clergy and Readers.

    Our Children, Families and Youth Officer Heather Powney outlines how you can start children’s ministry from scratch, or grow a small group into a larger engagement with children and their families. Read more

  • 29 Sep 2025
    in Training

    Bishop’s Study Day with Sharon Prentis

    Recently-appointed Canon Theologian Sharon Prentis will lead us in a Study Day at the cathedral. Read more