Shaw Transformational Leadership 2010 Courses

• Phase 1: Preparing the Ground: Completion of personal assessments and preparatory readings.
• Phase 2: Realising Your Leadership Potential: the five-day retreat style Core Residential Intensive held every April that will introduce you to the theory and practice of transformational leadership.
• Phase 3: Living A New Life: Structured follow-up by teleconference calls and email for mutual support to reinforce, integrate, and sustain positive change so you can actualise your personal and congregational leadership.

The five-day component (Phase 2) is the core element of TL 100 and an example of transformational leadership in action and is designed to engage you physically, emotionally, cognitively, interpersonally, and spiritually. A balance of informational, group process and experiential learning modules are employed and integrated to build from the first session to the closing day of the five-day intensive.

Focus is given on helping develop supportive practices with sessions that include spiritual exercises, introspection, physical activity, and self-expression.

One of the primary goals of the five day intensive (Phase 2) is to facilitate a community built on principles of confidentiality, mutual respect, and truthfulness - an ongoing peer support system to cooperatively engage the next phase. Instructors: Patty Evans and John Buttars, and special speakers (see TL 100 Schedule of Events). April 26-30, 2010. (Registration Deadline: April 1, 2010).

• Patricia Evans brings many years of leadership experience, mainly in the context of the United Church of Canada and its global partnerships. Her current work includes mediation, facilitation and congregational consultation as well as spiritual accompaniment for ministers and facilitation for ministry team building.
• John Buttars is a United Church of Canada minister (retired) who served the congregation of Harcourt United Church in Guelph, Ontario, for thirty years. His skills as a spiritual director, retreat leader, and workshop presenter are well-recognised and much sought after.

TL 101: Sharing Leadership as Clergy and Lay: Challenge and Promise*

Through case studies, theological reflection, presentations and discussions offered over two days as part of a six-day intensive held at the Providence Spirituality Centre in Kingston, participants will explore the theological and practical dimensions of strengthening relationships for transformational leadership. Instructors: Betsy Anderson and Allan Reeve. November 7-8, 2010. (Registration Deadline: October 15, 2010).

• Betsy Anderson works as Coordinator of Lay Ministry at Eglinton St. George's United Church and at Emmanuel College as Coordinator of Continuing Education and Recruitment. She is a member of Trinity-St. Paul's United Church where she has offered leadership in a variety of roles in partnership with a number of ministry teams.
• Allan Reeve is a poet, father, & husband. Since 2001 he's served a congregation in Bobcaygeon Ontario drawing upon a decade of Community Development ministry in Toronto's South Riverdale neighbourhood. Gathering teams and drawing on diverse resources to plant visions in the ground where the Maker can grow them - is what gets him out of bed in the morning.

TL 102: Biblical Models of Leadership*

This course is a biblical critical exploration of new avenues and approaches to leadership offered over two days as part of a six-day intensive held at the Providence Spirituality Centre in Kingston. Participants will discover and sharpen their own leadership strengths, and identify their weaknesses, by finding themselves in the lives and dilemmas faced by key biblical characters. Special attention is given to questions of authority, power, service, and commitment as related to issues of leadership, and church ministry and responsibilities. Instructor: Néstor Medina. November 9-10, 2010. (Registration Deadline: October 15, 2010).

• Néstor Medina is a Guatemalan-Canadian, ordained minister, who recently finished his PhD in theology at the University of Toronto. Among his areas of interest he studies the intersection of ethnoculture and faith discourses.

TL 103: Leadership on the Edge*

Using the metaphor of leader as artist, this course is offered over two days as part of a three-course diploma six-day intensive held at the Providence Spirituality Centre in Kingston. It will focus on the creativity that is essential to the activity of transformational leadership. Through discussion, presentations, and the use of various media, participants will experience and explore the creative process, the integrative aspects of artistry and the ways in which these apply to leadership in their ministry contexts. Instructor: Patricia Evans. November 11-12, 2010. (Registration Deadline: October 15, 2010).

• Patricia Evans brings many years of leadership experience, mainly in the context of the United Church of Canada and its global partnerships. Her current work includes mediation, facilitation and congregational consultation as well as spiritual accompaniment for ministers and facilitation for ministry team building.

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*This course may be taken individually during the week of November 7-12, 2010, as a two-day intensive for $500 including meals and accommodations.

Note: It is recommended that the core five-day course (TL 100) in the Shaw Transformational Leadership Program be taken prior to the other diploma courses, but it is not compulsory. Enrolment is limited and preference will be given to applicants who have completed the core course.