Ignatian Formation for Leadership

Ignatian Formation for Leadership helps strengthen and embed identity, purpose, vision and mission, for example, building a just society, at the margins, and in solidarity. It offers a spiritual basis for wellbeing and good learning.

We open space for you hospitably, helping creating environments where there is pause to favour free personal and communal processes, for the discernment of complex choices. Paying attention to your desires and dreaming, present relationships and circumstances, including the tensions, asking, what is the Spirit up to, where are we being led?

We can tailor and facilitate programs for your people and train you to use these methods and tools as best serves your mission and purpose.

Program examples include excellent one-off, and suites of group discernment exercises developed by the JISA’s First Spiritual Exercises Ministry and School of How. For refreshment, new direction, coming unstuck, clarity and peace:

1. Burnt Lips and Seraphs (Isa 6: 7-13) Supporting the Call to Creative Leadership
   A series of discerning conversations with prayer and practical steps, to experience and explore an Ignatian lens on contemporary leadership.

2. Catching Our Breath
   A mini retreat for you and coaching to accompany others in prayer. View Catching Our Breath

3. Crossing Guides: Ignatian wisdom for difficult transitions

4. Ignatian Foundation Exercises
   Creative, holistic exercises about knowing our purpose, staying on track, becoming free to choose with empty hands (Principle and Foundation)

5. The Audacity Exercises
   A small Ignatian retreat of five spiritual exercises for those who desire to be audacious in their ministry.

6. The Fire beneath the Surface
   A group discernment exercise for a ministry team or work group who desire to grow their ministry together

7. The Freedom Exercises
   Three Discernment Exercises and Three Spiritual Conversations for a ministry community seeking to re-imagine its ministry

8. The Ignatian Well Exercises
   Wells of Vision, Energy, and Joy. For ministry discernment, clarity in planning and a fresh way of moving forward together.