Center for Contemplative Leadership
Highlights
Mission
The Center for Contemplative Leadership (CCL) equips leaders through both ancient and modern contemplative practices. We offer training and resources that help cultivate vision, resilience, and joy in daily leadership. In addition, we believe deeply in connecting spiritual roots with the broader work of justice in the world. As a result, we nurture communities built on trust, active listening, and openness to the movement of the Spirit. Together, we support leaders within and beyond the church as they grow in courage, compassion, and clarity.
Vision
Among its aims, the Center for Contemplative Leadership seeks to:
1) Train leaders in the art of contemplative group listening and spiritual peer mentoring.
The Center for Contemplative Leadership offers a dynamic model of leadership training rooted in collaboration, not hierarchy. Unlike traditional methods, this approach centers on communal listening and Spirit-led discernment within leadership circles. Through listening circles, leaders practice hearing God’s wisdom together, across sectors like churches, nonprofits, and businesses. Instead of promoting control, the model invites leaders to share authority within trusted, spiritually grounded communities. As a result, participants build habits of vulnerability, authenticity, and joy-filled perseverance in their callings. This approach also sustains leaders by providing spaces where they feel seen, supported, and spiritually renewed. Ultimately, CCL trainings empower leaders to form deeper connections with one another and with the God they serve.
2) Resource (by intentionally identifying and recruiting) ethnic minority leaders, who are often under-resourced and under-served.
We provide support to ethnic minority leaders even as they work overtime to respond to the effects of the multifaceted pandemics of our day; and to work collectively — and contemplatively — toward social and racial justice in our world. This emphasis is crucial to the flourishing of our communities and larger society.
3) Reach leaders beyond traditional audiences through cohort-based learning and experience.
Employing the methods stated above, the CCL will offer training to marketplace (and other) leaders who desire to grow in the crucial skill of listening well to others. The intended outcome is to cultivate a different kind of corporate environment, in which market-driven aims are imbued with care for the human person and by a genuine interest in promoting the health and wellness of our human family and our shared planet. By engaging and coming alongside leaders to pause and listen together in love, we believe the CCL can offer participants a new way to lead.
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