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CALL Leadership Institute:
New Approaches to Congregational Leadership, Vitality, and Growth
Friday, January 8 – Monday, January 11, 2010 at CDSP, Berkeley
The challenges of leadership in communities of faith today can be daunting on a number of levels. Leadership for day-to-day ministry in congregations and other communities calls on nuanced understandings of the perspectives and needs of diverse constituencies. Leading communities through a period of tremendous cultural change requires a unique set of communications, negotiation, conflict management, and motivational skills that are often developed only after years of professional practice and often at great spiritual cost. How can you be the leader your congregation requires without sacrificing the sense of spiritual calling that drew you to ministry in the first place?
The challenge is further heightened as leaders in the Church are called to encourage their communities to engage the diversity of the wider community, inviting others into and reaching out to address the needs of the world. Yet such efforts often strain congregations, seeming to pull them away from their religious identity and sense of Christian mission, and often exhausting the resources—spiritual and material—of the community. How can church leaders develop modes of engagement with broader communities in ways that enrich and revitalize their congregations, strengthening their sense of Christian identity and their commitment to mission?
CDSP's Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership will help leaders in the Church to grapple with these issues in practical, creative, and engaging ways through a special Leadership Institute: New Approaches to Congregational Leadership, Vitality, and Growth. Developed after consultation with the Province VIII Bishops of the Episcopal Church, the CALL Leadership Institute will provide tools for sustaining, revitalizing, and growing communities of faith while retaining a sense of vocation and balance. This program is not for academic credit. Attendees are eligible to receive 3 CEUs.
Facilitators for the onsite Leadership Institute workshops at CDSP's Berkeley campus include:
 Margaret Benefiel
January 8-9
Margaret Benefiel, Ph.D., teaches at Andover Newton Theological School in Boston and at the Millltown Institute in Dublin, Ireland. For the 2003-2004 academic year, she held the O'Donnell Chair of Spirituality at the Milltown Institute. CEO of ExecutiveSoul.com, Dr. Benefiel also has served as Chair of the Academy of Management's Management, Spirituality, and Religion Group. Over 500 executives, managers, and other leaders have participated in her seminars and courses. She is the author of Soul At Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations (Seabury Books, 2005) and The Soul of a Leader: Finding Your Path to Success and Fulfillment (Crossroad, 2008), and has also written for The Leadership Quarterly, Management Communication Quarterly, Managerial Finance, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Organization, Personal Excellence, America, Presence, The Way, Studies in Spirituality, Radical Grace, and Faith at Work.
 N. Graham Standish
January 8-9
he Rev. Dr. N. Graham Standish is a Presbyterian minister and the author of Becoming the Blessed Church (2005) by The Alban Institute, Discovering the Narrow Path (2002) and Paradoxes for Living (2001), both by Westminster John Knox Press, and Forming Faith in a Hurricane (1998), by Upper Room Books; a contributor to Let Us Pray: Reformed Prayers for Christian Worship (Geneva Press, 2003) and The Dictionary of Christian Spiritual Formation (Upper Room Books, 2003); as well as numerous articles in spirituality and spiritual direction. He is an adjunct professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry program and Certificate in Spiritual Formation Program, focusing in the areas of spirituality and congregational leadership; a teacher in Pittsburgh Presbytery's Commissioned Lay Pastor's Training Program; and has served on the editorial board of Presence, the journal of Spiritual Directors International. He is a teacher, retreat leader, spiritual director, and has a background in individual, marital, and family therapy. He has a Ph.D. in formative spirituality from Duquesne University, a Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master of Divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. In addition, he is president of the Vineyard Guild, an organization committed to supporting, nurturing, and training spiritual leaderships and the growth of more spiritually vibrant congregations: www.vineyardguild.org.
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