This six-week course is offered by the Center for Transforming Engagement and is led by Dr. Rose Madrid Swetman, Associate Director for the Center and a long-time pastor, teacher, and leadership coach. The program is designed for leaders at all levels who are seeking grounded, faithful ways to lead amid social fragmentation, conflict, and change.
Across six sessions, participants will explore the inner life of the leader, trauma-informed leadership, navigating conflict and creating brave space, power and vulnerability, cultivating healthy teams and structures, and leading with hope and imagination in a post-Christian context. The course combines theological reflection, practical leadership tools, and peer learning in a small-group online setting, with limited enrollment to support meaningful engagement.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available, and early bird pricing is offered for both members and non-members.
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Session 1: The Leader’s Inner Life
Leaders cannot holistically lead others without attending to their own well-being and spiritual rootedness. Here we explore how the inner life of the leader shapes their outer leadership.
Session 2: Trauma-Informed Leadership
Understanding individual and collective trauma in your communities.
Session 3: Navigating Conflict and Building Brave Space
How to stay grounded and facilitate dialogue in divided communities.
Session 4: Power, Authority, and Vulnerability
Redefining Leadership in a Post-Christian Era – Reimagining what faithful and ethical leadership looks like in today’s context.
Session 5: Cultivating Healthy Teams and Structures
How to create sustainable, life-giving organizational structures.
Session 6: Hope and Imagination
Learning to lead with purpose in a time of social fragmentation, and reclaiming purpose and theological imagination for what’s next
This class meets 6 times on the following days:
April 29th, 2026, May 6th, 2026, May 13th, 2026, May 20th, 2026, May 27th, 2026, June 3rd, 2026