Why Your Body-Budget Matters to the Quality of Your Ministry (or, What Neuroscience Has to Say About Clergy Self-Care)
12 min 27 s
Rev. Arlen Vernava
The 3 components of Body Budget: adequate sleep, nutritious food, exercise;
What to do when your Body Budget is in deficit, but don’t have time to attend to it;
How to advance the work of the church when Body Budget is in deficit;
Body Budget applies at the congregational level too;
Arlen G. Vernava, M.Div., PTS, EPC, is a Senior Consultant with Design Group International, Inc. He serves as Faculty, and Team Lead for Education, with the Interim Ministry Network. Arlen’s vocation of over 35 years focusses on “helping you live into your vocation.”
Being with, and walking alongside describe Arlen’s deep gladness and his vocational posture: as a coach to leaders and teams, as an external consultant with faith-based organizations, as an embedded strategic intentional interim, and as faculty.
Arlen’s been privileged to walk alongside all kinds of persons and communities throughout the United States and in Canada.
Arlen makes his home in upstate northeast New York, with his wife Robin and their Bernese / Standard Poodle male dog, Anku.
Reach Arlen anytime by email: arlenv@designgroupintl.com, or make an appointment: https://bookme.name/WalkingAlongside/being-with
- Recorded in March 2022
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