Help for Faith Leaders in a Season of Political Stress I don’t know about you but I for one, post Thanksgiving, found myself thankful to have the … [Read more...] about FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS
About Michelle Snyder*
Michelle Snyder, MDiv, LCSW
Consultant | Coach | Suicide Prevention Trainer
Michelle Snyder brings over a decade of experience in organizational consulting, guiding congregations, clergy, middle judicatories, and nonprofits through seasons of growth, challenge, and transition. With dual graduate degrees in Divinity and Social Work, and a background as both a therapist and nonprofit director, Michelle offers a rare blend of theological insight, systems thinking, and emotional intelligence.
A gifted listener with a clinician’s lens, she specializes in strategic planning, staff team development, conflict transformation, congregational legacy work, search and transition support, child protection policy, and boundaries and ethics training. Michelle leads the Organizational Development and Presbyterian teams at the Center for Healthy Churches-PneuMatrix and is certified in Lombard Mennonite Peace Center methodologies and the Myers-Briggs personality assessment.
Michelle is also a national presenter in suicide prevention for faith communities and co-author of Life, Death and Reinvention: The Gift of the Impossibly Messed-Up Life. She lives in Pittsburgh with her clergy husband and their two teenage daughters.
Articles by Michelle Snyder*
Hope and Connection: The Church’s Role in Suicide Prevention
My suicide prevention colleague was standing at a McDonald's counter, holding his “Suicide Talk” training manual. A woman beside him, staring at … [Read more...] about Hope and Connection: The Church’s Role in Suicide Prevention
Reaching the Next Generation – One Casserole At a Time
How many times have I sat in a room full of baby boomers who are brainstorming ways to get millennials to church. It’s one of the more painful things … [Read more...] about Reaching the Next Generation – One Casserole At a Time
Real Love Is… Gritty and Dangerous
“Love without truth is sentimentality. Truth without love is harshness.” -Tim Keller Come on. You didn’t really think you would open up a post this … [Read more...] about Real Love Is… Gritty and Dangerous
“How Do You Fire Your Family?” and Other Staff Struggles. . .
Bruce was in his first call to a small town church that professed community and love for each other as primary core values. While they were not … [Read more...] about “How Do You Fire Your Family?” and Other Staff Struggles. . .
New Questions for a New Day
Let’s face it. Most people have believed for some time that things in the church have needed to change. We all know the data...decline, … [Read more...] about New Questions for a New Day
The Work of Resilience
Resilience is a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot these days. Lectures, TED Talks, Brené Brown, Oprah, Sheryl Sandberg… it seems everyone … [Read more...] about The Work of Resilience
