Scholars think Christianity is in an era of reformation.
We agree.
At Adaptive Church, we strengthen congregations and faith-based organizations by helping them make HARD decisions.
Learning from the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), we apply adaptive leadership skills to ministry settings providing faithful guidance for challenging times.
Facilitation
We help groups of people determine and clarify their question then commit to carrying out the decision. Our four-phase process includes:
- Data – Gathering information and visualizing it in meaningful charts and graphs
- Discussion – Providing relational covenants and ground rules then moderating large-group discussions
- Discernment – Sharing wisdom literature and holding space for spiritual movement
- Decision – Providing voting methods based on organizational constitutions and bylaws.
Finally, we debrief and discern next steps with key leaders.
We teach leaders how to guide using the adaptive leadership model.
Education
Facilitated cohorts guide peer learning through “sticky” challenges facing today’s congregations.
I have found, in my own teaching in the (Duke Divinity School Doctorate of Ministry) program, that the cohort model is the optimum way for pastors and leaders to grow in their self-confidence and knowledge of best practices and to give and receive honest feedback.
-Will Willimon, pastor, professor, writer, scholar
Empowering
Leaders learn tools they can put into practice in their unique contexts.
“Being able to think differently from those around us and being able to function lovingly with people who think otherwise is the ultimate in human endeavor. It requires three things: a heart large enough to deal with conflict positively, enduringly and kindly; a keen sense of personal purpose, the notion that there is something on the horizon that is worth debating; and a soul sensitive enough to transcend the tensions of the immediate for the sake of the quality of the future.”
–Joan Chittester, “Differences,” Called to Community
Supporting
Participants develop networks of relationships with ministry leaders for encouragement and professional growth.
I continue to connect and learn from people in my educational cohort. I can’t imagine ministry without this community.
-Amanda Olson, pastor
Renewing
We trust God’s Spirit is at working making all things new, including us!
Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
-The Apostle Paul, Philippians 2:12b-13
Contact:
- mandy@adaptivechurch.com
- (872) 222-5433
Always. Be. Reforming.