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Stewardship of Leadership
EMPOWERED LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS
2015
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
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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
Leaders: Focusing on the Source
Viewing Leadership from
the:
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
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
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God
Co-creative Thinking
Renewing and Servant
Leadership
God’s Wisdom
God’s love and justice
Integration/wholeness –
reconnecting disconnects