Learning on Purpose: Changing Leadership for a Changing World is the Centre for Christian Studies’ 2-week intensive leadership development module. It is a practical, holistic, hands-on, learning community experience, and those who take it come out feeling transformed (in a good way!). Register for Learning on Purpose.
Who should take part in Learning on Purpose?
- people who want to improve their skills for leadership in the church or community
- people who have been leading for a while, but who want to be more intentional, more confident, or more inspired
- people who feel called to Christian ministry, especially diaconal ministry
- people trying to figure out if they’re called, or wanting to test out CCS’s style of education
- people looking for a meeting place between their faith and their hunger for justice and change
CCS’s Learning on Purpose leadership development module will introduce you to …
Leading from the Edges
Leadership doesn’t have to mean a business suit and a firm handshake. It doesn’t require a flashy persona and all the hippest jargon. It’s not about having the power to call all the shots.
The Centre for Christian Studies is grounded in the diaconal tradition, which means being the church in the world. It means standing with those who are marginalized. It means leadership that empowers others, and it’s grounded in a theology of justice.
At Learning on Purpose you’ll explore models of leadership and approaches to theology, education, pastoral care, and social justice that empower and create change.
Learning in Community
Whether you call it ministry, service, community organizing, or activism, you know this already –It’s not just about you. Leadership happens in the context of community. The same goes for learning.
At Learning on Purpose our talented facilitators will help you find yourself as a learner in a community of learners. You’ll practice skills for building and maintaining community – group facilitation processes, dealing with conflict, goal-setting and planning. You’ll plan and lead, and support each other through honest and respectful feedback.
Action / Reflection
Reflection that doesn’t lead to action is paralysis. And Action without reflection is just busy-work. Effective leadership requires integration – of focused action and thoughtful analysis, of head and heart, of experience and theory.
At Learning on Purpose you’ll explore tools for connecting your real-life experience with theological themes, and spiritual practices to support faithful action. You’ll reflect on your own faith journey.
Even if you’re familiar with some of the skills and approaches introduced in Learning on Purpose, action-reflection invites you to dig deeper and stretch farther.