The Shape of Leadership
is coming to Camp Lutherhaven!
The Shape of Leadership is for clergy who want to renew their leadership, and step up their ability so they can significantly impact the future of our faith communities.
The past few years have been incredibly difficult for faith leaders. Clergy are tired, if not burned out, and need safe places where they can reflect on the demands of their work and develop their leadership for the changing landscape of our faith communities. They need brave spaces where their whole being is accepted as is and where they can, therefore, show up authentically and vulnerably before taking their learning back to their contexts. They need emergent spaces to reconnect with God and self, so that they can serve more fully. In this multi-faith program, Shape participants retreat together four times in a year to develop their leadership in adaptive and experiential ways: by experimenting with innovative practices, deepening self-awareness, and learning to navigate change, conflict, and the daily challenges of leadership. Shape facilitators cultivate an ethos that allows leaders to wrestle with new ideas in the safety of a generous and compassionate group. Participants integrate theological commitments with innovative leadership practices from a variety of disciplines, especially the adaptive leadership framework. The program is highly experiential, collaborative and offers the opportunity to develop long-lasting support systems among high-potential faith leaders. In the Shape program, each retreat is two nights. Between retreats, participants meet in cohort groups to journey the year together, supporting each other and deepening the learning. In Shape, you can expect to work hard and gain much.
and reach out to Leaderwise’s Mary Kay DuChene (marykay@leaderwise.org) or Bishop Meggan Manlove if you have questions.