EMPOWERED LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS 2015 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. networks Problem solving vs. adaptive thinking Ownership vs. stewardship Competition vs. collaboration Others?

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 Thinking Renewing and Servant Leadership God’s Wisdom God’s love and justice Integration/wholeness – reconnecting disconnects