Offerings
Consulting
You have a vision. Now what? How do you get your team onboard? How do you build the plan to bring that vision to life? How do you break it apart into steps and methods and accountability practices to make it happen? I’ll help you start at 30,000 feet and bring the vision down onto the ground in practical steps. We’ll set timelines, goals, and communication structures so you have a solid path toward your realized vision. I’m also available as a project manager to help you see brief projects to fruition.
Coaching
I’ve spent years having deep conversations one-on-one with folks who are seeking what they are becoming next. I’m adept at teasing out the truth underneath with compassion and encouragement. I’ve worked with new clergy, small business owners, committees, and individuals all trying to get to their next reality. In 2021, I added Enneagram Coaching to my stable of experiences to help people find their truths and where to go from here.
Team-Building
As a facilitator of Brené Brown’s shame-resilience curriculums since 2014, I’ve come to understand that people do not leave their spirits outside the workplace doors. We all come in with everything we are, feel, and have experienced. I’ve led vestries, staff teams, committees, and other groups toward goals and hopes for nearly 2 decades. We develop common sets of values, address conflict in a healthy way, and honor one another’s gifts and realities.
Teaching/Leading
Whether leading small groups doing the work of shame resilience, or offering workshops on values discernment, the Enneagram, Jesus’ connection to wholeheartedness, or beyond, I’m a preacher/presenter who can ask the heart questions and build connections. If you’re seeking a workshop to make that heart/mind connection, need a leader for a Vestry retreat, or want to to take part in The Daring Way™ small groups, let’s talk.
“Haven is that place where you can be fully yourself…where you are safe, valued, and can breathe fully. Out of that place will come the truth of all that you are and are to become.”
— Erika von Haaren
A Privilege to Work With…
“Thank you all who put this talk together! Erika was an amazing speaker who I learned a lot from today.”
“Another great quote from Erika - "Collaboration always looks like competence’”
“This was such an amazing event and such insightful and engaging conversation. Thank you so much to everyone who stood this up and got Erika in to provide this talk.”
I simply cannot recommend Erika von Haaren and Haven Consulting enough.
We contracted with Erika to engage in the Daring Way training for our team of four. We met multiple times over the course of several months to complete curriculum and it was an amazing experience. Erika has a way of creating a safe environment where our entire team felt comfortable engaging in the deep, personal conversations of shame and resilience.
From the very beginning of our time together, it was clear that Erika was committed to getting to know each one of us individually, as well as getting to know who we were as a team. She is a skilled facilitator and was able to share content in a way that resonated with each one of us. As an individual who provides facilitation and training professionally, I can also say that I learned tips and strategies from her to improve my facilitation skills as well as walking away with a greater understanding of the topics that she covered.
Any individual or group would be blessed to have Erika facilitate their learning journey with them.
As I reflect on my first six years of ministry as a priest in charge of a congregation, I am in awe of the radical transformation of my experience from when I began until now. At the start, I felt overwhelmed and under-resourced, and here I am today feeling capable and hopeful about the future of ministry in this place. A critical moment in this process of transformation is when I reached out to my friend and colleague, Erika, for support and guidance. She responded with a level of generosity with her presence and expertise that was unexpected and humbling. She didn’t just meet me for coffee, pat me on the head, and send me off with some generic advice, she consulted extensively with the leadership in my parish, listening intently to our story and challenges and dreams, crunching numbers with us, and subsequently advocating in person for our ministry in multiple meetings with the Diocese. Erika’s consulting and coaching and friendship is something without which I would have long ago cut and run or just continued on miserably until I was another statistic of clergy burn out. I am so grateful for her ministry.
-The Reverend Chad-Joseph Sundin, OSBCn
Some of my experience…
Parish Leader
18 years leading parishes as COO/Chief of Staff and as CEO/Rector.
Project Manager.
Planning, strategizing, and executing ideas, programs and initiatives.
Small Group Facilitator
From The Daring Way™ to team talk, staff mentorship to Bible Study.
Conflict Manager.
Trained by the Lombard Peace Center in 2020 to help people & parishes find their way home to each other.
Strategic Planner
Sequencing big ideas from the vision stage through the nuts & bolts to success.
Teacher/Speaker
Classes on church leadership, the Book of Common Prayer, evangelism, the work of Brené Brown, and more.
Advocate
Ever growing in the work to be an ally in Anti-Racism and LGBTQIA+ activism.
Diocesan Leader
Leading & serving on various teams for the growth of AZ Episcopalians.