Core Practices in All Three Phases:
• Deep listening
• Guided reflection
• Spiritual practices
• Shared storytelling
• Courageous feedback
• Discernment conversations
• Prayerful presence with one another

Colleagues Will Learn to...
• Listen deeply
• Speak truth in love
• Offer reflection rather than advice
• Discern together where Christ is forming life

The cohort becomes...
• A mirror
• A sanctuary
• A laboratory
• A greenhouse for growth

Across all three phases
• Abiding precedes action.
• Belovedness precedes leadership. • Formation precedes influence.
• Community shapes calling.

The process is slow, intentional, relational, and transformative.
It honors
• The hidden life
• The lived life
• The shared life
• The systemic life

FOCUS: Deep interior formation — cultivating self-awareness, belovedness, and abiding presence.

Core Question: How is Christ being formed in me?

Emphases
• Growing in self-awareness (emotional, relational, spiritual) • Practicing mindful awareness of God’s abiding presence • Deepening intimacy with Father, Son, and Spirit
• Embracing one’s beloved identity
• Understanding and honoring the Imago Dei in oneself and others
• Developing rhythms of stillness, reflection, and attentiveness
• Growth in experiencing Jesus as one’s navigational center of existence and reality

Participant Outcomes
• Become more grounded and less reactive
• Movement toward experiencing life ‘with’ God in place of a life ‘for’ God • Grow in secure belovedness rather than performance
• Develop interior spaciousness and spiritual attentiveness
• Recognize how Christ is forming one’s character

Tree Image
The roots (hidden life with God) and trunk (integrated identity) are established. Strength below the surface determines everything above it.

Focus: Embodied formation — living intentionally out of union with Christ.

Core Question: How does Christ in me shape how I live and lead?

Emphases:
• Living from overflow rather than striving
• Organic fruitfulness flowing from abiding
• The relationship between the Imago Dei and stewardship of power
• Examining how one’s influence affects others (experiencing the wake of one’s abiding) • Understanding authority as relational and restorative
• Reflecting on how power is experienced by those around us

Participants Explore:
• How they use influence
• How their leadership impacts others emotionally and spiritually • Where subtle distortions of power may exist
• What Christlike stewardship looks like in real contexts

Participant Outcomes:
• Lead with humility and awareness
• Use influence in life-giving ways
• Align behavior with beloved identity
• Demonstrate fruit consistent with abiding (love, joy, peace, patience, etc.)

Tree Image:
The branches, leaves, and fruit become visible. What was rooted internally now expresses itself externally.

Focus:  Relational and systemic stewardship — discerning and cultivating areas of influence.

Core Question:  Where has God entrusted me with influence, and how am I stewarding power, love, and discipline in those spaces?

Emphases:
• Identifying specific spheres of influence (family, church, workplace, community, systems)
• Evaluating how one is stewarding: Power
Love Discipline
• Exploring cultural and systemic impact
• Considering communal, environmental, and global implications • Discernment of calling and contribution
• Courageous yet humble engagement with systems
Participants reflect on
• Immediate community impact • Organizational culture
• Broader societal systems
• The long arc of influence

Participant Outcomes: 
• Become wise stewards of entrusted authority • Think systemically, not just individually
• Influence culture redemptively
• Understand themselves as part of a larger ecosystem of God’s work

Tree Image:
The individual tree is now seen within an orchard or forest. No tree stands alone. Each contributes to — and is shaped by — a larger environment.