EMPOWERED LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS2015

Stewardship of Leadership

Stewardship

Stewardship is a state of being where people see the whole and their role in it and accept responsibility for their role and the whole.

Seeing the Whole

Industrial Ways of Thinking

Global Themes and Patterns

Three Streams/Trends

Industrial Ways of Thinking

Focus on production, growth, numbers, and the bottom line

Consumerism Institutional structures vs. networksProblem solving vs. adaptive thinkingOwnership vs. stewardshipCompetition vs. collaborationOthers?

Systemic Global Themes and Patterns

Disconnect between self and cosmos: i.e. compromised stewardship

Disconnect between self and others: i.e. compromised outreach

Disconnect between self and Self: i.e. compromised piety

Trends: Three Streams Coming Together

1. Global civil society in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King

2. Action Science represented by Kurt Lewin and Edgar Schein

3. Mindfulness and awareness inherit in the essence of all the wisdom traditions

Our Role in the Whole

Evolution of Mental Models

Development of Leadership

What Does This Mean for the Church?

Evolution of Mental Models

“State Centric” – hierarchy and control

“Free Market” – markets and competition

“Social Market” – networks and negotiation

“Co-creative” – seeing and acting from the whole

Stages of Leadership Development

Stage 1 – Self centric Leaders: traditional, positional hierarchy

Stage 2 – Achieving Leaders: competition

Stage 3 – Servant Leaders: serve & develop stakeholders and others

Stage 4 – Renewing Leaders: breakthrough thinking, creating future

What Does This Mean for the Church?

What is our role in moving past industrial ways of thinking to co-creative ways of thinking to address some of the disconnects?

What is our role in developing the three streams of a global civil society, action science, and wisdom in our own leaders, congregations, and communities?

Accepting Responsibility for Our Role

Shifting from what we want to avoid to what we want (God wants) to bring into Reality:

Formation

Presence

Witness

Results they produce

Processes they use

Sources from which leaders operate

“What counts is not what leaders do and how they do it but their interior condition, the inner place from which they operate or the source from which all their actions originate.”

Otto Sharmer

Leaders: Focusing on the Source

Viewing Leadership from the:

Formation

Identity – who we are in God – our True Self

How we learn and become learning communities - open

Wisdom – knowing and living God’s ways in God’s world

Presence: Cultivating Inner Place

Open Minds – to data around us describing current reality of church and world

Open Hearts – to the real needs around us

Open our Wills - to what God is doing and surrendering to it.

Witness

Manifesting the Reign of God

Co-creative ThinkingRenewing and

Servant LeadershipGod’s WisdomGod’s love and justiceIntegration/

wholeness – reconnecting disconnects