We all have assumptions about what it means to be a leader and those assumptions are doubly loaded when we are responsible for the spiritual care of others. We’ll spend some time talking about our assumptions, the assumptions put on us, and begin breaking these assumptions down.

Opening ourselves up to the “impossible” is a difficult task that science-fiction does wonderfully. Using sci-fi as a starting point, we’ll work on suspending our own disbelief at what is and is not possible for the world we live in. This is the first conversation we’ll have about worldbuilding and will focus on our personal dreams.

Every community needs some way to grieve loss and change yet few actually practice communal grieving outside of funerals. We’ll put our heads together to actually come up with grief rituals to help your communities process change and come out on the other side excited about what’s next.

 Let’s talk about worldbuilding some more, but this time we’ll do it with an eye towards our communities. What does the world that your community is working so hard for look like? And how do we make it happen? We’ll discuss these questions and more all in week 4.

Spiritual and religious leaders require certain environmental conditions to thrive. We’ll use an ecological lens to think about our settings, the conditions we need to thrive as leaders, and the conditions our community members need in order to be better stewards of the community.

In this last week, we’ll talk about what’s next for us and learn a goal-setting process to be used in our communities to initiate purposeful, soulful reflection and change.