Chancellors Meeting Day 1

Friday, January 13, 2023
9:00 am - 4:00 pm ET
Event Details

9:00 am – MORNING PRAYER 

9:30 am to 12:00 pm –  Safe Church

Part 1: Presentation by Ecclesiastical Insurance – Jane Williamson and team

  • Review of different types of policies and coverage provided
  • Abuse: claim trends and risk management
  • Safe Church: On-line training for employees and volunteers

Part 2: Trauma-informed approach to dealing with complaints.

  • Précis of Mandy Marshall’s presentations; trauma–informed approach; not all trauma situations originate in the Church or lead to the Church complaints/discipline processes.
  • What might be done in the complaint/discipline setting to reduce stress and trauma for all involved?
  • Do any of the Chancellors have experience about how trauma affected a process – and how we stay in the role we need to be – while being compassionate to the impact of trauma?

Part 3:  ADR and Restorative Justice in the disciplinary and non-disciplinary situations.

  • Who needs to be in the room?
  • Are there types of cases that would not be suitable for a restorative justice process?

-Mary Kostel
-George Cadman and Peter Crisfield re Nakayama experience
-Ecclesiastical Insurance representative about their experience.

Part 4: Status of Safe Church Procedures in the various dioceses. Setting expectations for Respectful Work Places (and Church as a whole) and dealing with a person’s trauma are broader than focussing on responses to complaints. What resources would be needed? Challenges for small dioceses. How could these be addressed?

  • Isabel Weeks describing the Islands and Inlets’ policy

12:00 pm – LUNCH at Weir Foulds LLP

1:30 pm“What do Chancellors do? What I know now that I didn’t know when I started as a Chancellor.”

  • Kevin Smith
  • Ann Bourke

2:15 pm – Health Break
2:30 pm – Break out sessions
3:30 pmIs a Chancellor acting as a lawyer? counsellor? Consequences of the characterization for solicitor-client privilege, complaints to the Law Society, insurance? Who is the client?

  • Greg Tweeney
  • Karen Webb

4:30 pm – Adjourn

Friday, January 13, 2023
9:00 am - 4:00 pm ET