Two feet walking: Part 1

Congregational leadership isn’t just one thing and can’t be done by just one person. In order to stay balanced and effective, leaders must learn to engage the complexity of both making individual disciples and mobilizing a group of people to engage a shared mission. We call this Two Feet Walking.

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Conversation overview:

• Rapidly changing ministry contexts require complex leadership
• Two Feet Walking
• Ministry leadership as developing individual disciples to live missionally
• Being fully human – woundedness and flourishing
• Being people who can handle conflict well

Resources for deconstructing your first formation:

Becoming a Healthier Pastor by Ronald Richardson

An Introduction to Trauma for Leaders

          Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Quit Getting In Your Own Way

Faithwalking

Resources for Skill Development:

Being an Emotional Grown–up: Defined and Connected in an Emotionally Charged System

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, et. al.

Leading in a Politically Charged Culture

Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs by Steve Cuss

Resources for Coaching:

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey

Coaching: The Art of Creating a Safe and Challenging Space

Resources for Skill Development:

How did Jesus deal with Conflict?

Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown

Resources for Missional Living:

How did Jesus deal with Conflict?

Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown

Resources for Skill Development:

Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger

The Gospel Next Door: Following Jesus Right Where You Are by Marty Troyer

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