Mission leaders are able to articulate their lived faith experience and the meaning it brings to their lives as well as encourage and empower individuals and organizations to do the same.
1. Personal Spirituality
- Lives out a spirituality expressed through prayer and right relationships
- Supports others in integrating human and spiritual development
- Finds hope within life's struggles and challenges
- Provides needed resources based on diverse spiritual traditions and needs
- Models ongoing spiritual development
- Speaks with a prophetic and courageous voice
2. Communal Spirituality
- Develops spirituality in work place practices based on the organization's mission and core values
- Knows the charism and spirituality of the sponsor organizations and integrates that legacy as appropriate through practice and celebration
- Translates the sponsors' heritage into today's realities, challenges and possibilities
- Facilitates adult spiritual formation
3. Spirituality of Change
- Walks with people during challenging personal and organizational times of change
- Fosters genuine hope in the midst of difficulties
- Assists people to apply the mystery of Christ's life, death and resurrection to their experience of change, as appropriate
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Watch Video Commentary on the New Competencies
How does the mission leader successfully approach the issue of religious diversity?
- Clarke Cochran, Ph.D.
Vice President, Mission Integration
Covenant Health System
- Rev. Thomas Kopfensteiner, STD
Senior Vice President, Mission
Catholic Health Initiatives
- Sr Teresa Maltby, RSM, D.Mn.
Member, Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Health Ministry Council
Corporate Member, Provena Health
- Laura Richter, M.Div.
Director, Workplace Spirituality
Ascension Health
How important is it that the mission leader has a well-developed spirituality?
Thoughts on the mission leader's potential as locus of "expertise" in integrating a new kind of spirituality into organizational culture.
How does the relationship of the mission leader to the pastoral/spiritual care function affect the mission leader's ability to address these competencies?
Why is "Spirituality of Change" considered such an important area of competency for any mission leader?
What are some strategies a mission leader might use to help an organization in times of "Spirituality of Change?"
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