We are excited to offer following spring 2021 cohorts as part of our NEXT Steps Coaching initiative. Coaching cohorts are a combination of monthly group cohorts gathered around a particular topic led by teachers and experts, along with individual coaching sessions in between those cohort meetings with trained/certified coaches to help you apply and wrestle with the topic for your particular context.
Spring cohorts run from April through September.
Whether your leadership has been centered in racial justice for decades or you are yearning to take steps to embody antiracist values in your ministry, this cohort will offer a space to learn, explore, and practice bringing racial justice to the core of your leadership.
Teacher: Jessica Vazquez Torres
Coaches: Lakesha Bradshaw Easter, LeAnn Hodges, Shani McIlwain, Alex Patchin McNeill, Zeena Regis, Martha Spong
Date/Time: 2nd Thursdays, 2:00-3:30pm EDT (11:00am-12:30pm PDT)
Registration is no longer available.
Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or tired as a ministry leader in this season? You are not alone. This cohort will help process all these emotions and create a roadmap for next steps and goals.
Coaches: Shani McIlwain and Larissa Kwong Abazia
Date/Time: 3rd Wednesdays, 2:30-4:00pm EDT (11:30am-1:00pm PDT)
This 2.0 cohort creates spaces to maintain accountability and dig deeper into the necessity of an antiracist posture in the church. Participants will engage in the individual work that they must do to disrupt patterns and systems of white supremacy as well as analyze the systems and structures in which they find themselves.
Only those who participated in Antiracism Practices for Faithful Leadership in fall 2020 may register for this cohort.
Coaches: Larissa Kwong Abazia, MaryAnn McKibben Dana, and Alex Patchin McNeill
Date/Time: 4th Wednesdays, 2:30-4:00pm EDT (11:30am-1:00pm PDT)
How many times have you pivoted in the last year? Does the thought of pivoting into this next chapter feel daunting? Not sure what to put back in the box and what church is going to look like this fall? You don’t have to just survive this next season in ministry. With careful cultivation and care, you can use this season to figure out what fruitful ministries will continue to thrive, what new, live-giving patterns might emerge, and how to lead through it. Using the principles of Cultivated Ministry, participants in this coaching cohort will consider markers of success, think through the why of programming and ministry, assess capacities and energies, and set teams and committees up for success in implementation.
Teacher: Jen James
Coaches: MaryAnn McKibben Dana and Brett Pinder
Date/Time: 2nd Tuesdays, 2:00-3:30pm EDT (11:00am-12:30pm PDT)
Registration is no longer available.
Some partial scholarships are available for coaching cohorts.
