PRAYERFUL LEADERSHIP AND REFLECTIVE LEADERSHIP

These are two, eight-day programs applying the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola.

Each program may be experienced either as a 2 x 4 day or 4 x 2 day experience.

These programs are offered on request.

Prayerful Leadership

God And Us – God Loves Us Just As We Are

Intention: To consider our purpose in life, God's gifts and blessings and our response. Participants will, through prayer, reflection and conversation, experience a modified version of the 1st week of the Spiritual Exercises. Topics – Where am I? How am I? Who am I? Praise God, Reverence God and Serve God.

On The Road With Jesus – Passionate Engagement And Cool Appraisal

Intention: To consider and respond to the life of Jesus. Participants will experience, in prayer and conversation, a modified version of the 2nd Week of the Spiritual Exercises. Topic – the call of Christ the King, Incarnation, Two Standards, Nazareth manifesto, three classes of persons and three degrees of humility.

Suffering With Jesus – Suffering Has Meaning

Intention: To consider the passion and death of Jesus. Participants will experience, in prayer and conversation, a modified version of the 3rd Week of the Spiritual Exercises.

Topics – One passion four gospels, the Eucharist, friendship or love, Gethsemane and arrest, the divinity is hidden, God knows failure, way of the cross.

Realizing God's Love – Thinking About God With Us

Intention: To consider the resurrection and Jesus' enduring presence in the world. Participants will experience, in prayer, reflection and conversations, a modified version of the 4th Week of the Spiritual Exercises. Topics – Contemplation to attain love, God in nature, history and people, accompaniment, finding God in all things.

Reflective Leadership

Self-Awareness – To Order Ones' Life

Intention: To be more self-aware in my relationships and in all I see and do. Through input, reflection and sharing, we converse on: Ignatius' story, my story, the Spiritual Exercises, giftedness, relationships with the world, my strengths and weaknesses.

Based on Heroic Leadership. Chris Lowney, CH 5.

Ingenuity – The Whole World Will Become Our House

Intention: To relate with freedom and openness to all things of creation. Participants through a process of input, reflection and sharing, converse on: leadership styles, core values, Ignatius' worldwide. Indifference, Ignatian discernment, personal decisions.

Based on Heroic Leadership. Chris Lowney, CH7.

Courageous Leadership – Eliciting Great Desires

Intention: Enthusiasm for my leadership, for my purpose, I am called to and for encouragement of others to find their purpose. Participants through a process of input, reflection and sharing converse on: desires leadership, management, extraordinary relationships, Ignatian reflective leadership, ministry and social responsibility.

Based on Heroic Leadership, Chris Lowney, CH 9

Love - With Greater Love Than Fear

Intention: To have a more loving attitude to others and the world in which I live. Participants, through a process of input, reflection and sharing, converse on: God's love, Ignatius' foundational insights; how to empower, envision, energize and enable; the idea of accompaniment, building a sacred workplace and the idea of the greater good.

Based on Heroic Leadership, Chris Lowney, CH 8.