Leadership & Team Development

The first groups you were a part of formed how you feel and behave in group settingss, so we dig into your childhood story to understand how early interactions formed your assumptions about groups and your role in them. We then generate, practice, and build trust with new options. My method is built on ideas from:

  • Patrick Lencioni’s model of engaging conflict for accountability and successful results.
  • Wilfred Bion’s frameworks on group dynamics and group dynamics and basic assumptions
  • Jack Gibbs’ multi-tiered model of building trust in teams and organizations 
  • In vein of Margaret Wheatley, integrating quantum and spiritual aspects into work together
  • Collaboration
  • Research from the field of cross-team collaboration and organizational values.

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Grant Writing & Consulting

I believe that faith communities today have the opportunity to mend our polarized, fractured society and restore trust in social institutions and democracy. Whether you’re a denomination, parachurch organization, or educational institution, I work to get you funding for projects that extend your organization’s mission while addressing your greater community’s needs.

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 FIRST: I work to understand the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Why do you exist? What gifts do you uniquely offer? What impact are you seeking to have

NEXT: I learn about the project you’re wanting to add or develop. How does it connect to your mission, vision, and values? What needs or aspirations does it serve for your participants? For the wider community?

GRANT WRITING: The next step is to align this project with the grantmaker’s mission and initiative, usually through their “request for proposals.” I will work with you to develop a project budget that is in line with the grantmaker’s assessment, then outline your project using language that is familiar to the funding decision-makers. When your approval is on that, I develop a full proposal narrative that aligns your project with both your organizational mission and the grantmaker’s intentions.

GRANT COACHING: Whether I worked with you on your proposal or you bring me in later, these conversations set the foundation for adminstration and strategic development of your grant-funded project. This might include logistics of budgeting and reporting, using design thinking for program development, creative thinking about team structure, and addressing challenges of managing multiple grants.

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    Camino de Santiago Coaching

    Walking the Camino de Santiago can be a transformative, life-changing experience — especially when it’s engaged with intention and openness to possibilities. I offer logistical information, questions that guide you towards transformation, space for reflection, and encouragement to develop lasting spiritual maturity.

    By working with me, you’ll enter the Camino with a greater readiness for what the divine wants to reveal to you through the experience. On your return, when the true Camino starts, you’ll receive guidance on reflection to make meaning from the experience and how to continue as a pilgrim in daily life.

    I am always working on three levels and their interactions with one another, to use the present moment in ways that integrate the past and open possibilities for the future.

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    • Physical (The logistics of packing, training, travel);
    • Mental-emotional (Such as identity development, anxiety management, group dynamics) and
    • Spiritual (Also called meaning-making).

    For many pilgrims, preparation for Camino is a time of both excitement and anxiety. I’ll help you with logistics and concrete advice, and also offer space to reflect on what is happening in the emotional and spiritual realms beneath the need to plan. We’ll work on setting intentions for your Camino and preparing for openness to whatever the journey might hold.

    It’s a common refrain that the Camino begins in Santiago. The true work of the pilgrim begins with the return home and integrating new understandings into their life. Sometimes the Camino can be disruptive to our life trajectory and even to our sense of self; We will work through the emotional and spiritual understandings of those disruptions, and define concrete next steps for as long as you need after Camino.

    Through curious questions, I drive to deeper levels of understanding when you’re at the surface of physical; and I drive to concrete next steps when you’re lost in the depths of meaning-making. I have a finely tuned sense of pace for when to explore one level, and when to move between levels.

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    Speaking & Facilitation

    I am available for speaking engagements ranging from a short sermon to a multi-day event. My experience includes webinars, podcasts, courses, workshops, preaching in churches from a variety of denominations, presentations in academic settings, panel discussions, and keynotes. Sample topics include:

    • Teams as the work of leadership
    • Suffering, grief, and transitions
    • Belonging
    • Leadership crucibles and redemptive narratives
    • Resilience and post traumatic growth
    • Integrating spirituality and psychology in leadership
    • The intersection of spirituality and modern cultural narratives

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