Setting the Course for Thriving Leaders
and Congregations
The Compass Initiative helps leaders and congregations navigate their inner and outer worlds in order to discover life and leadership aligned with God's Design.
Personal transformation is the starting point for leading and living by God's Design. The CLC Primer will help you personally grow in faith and emotional maturity, but you also need to take your congregation on the hope-filled journey of discipleship.
By including Faithwalking's Foundations Course, your leadership team will establish a discipleship process for your congregation that is in alignment with the change process of the CLC Primer.
Through the Compass Initiative, the Holy Spirit unleashes the power of love and hope.
Individuals
uncover their true selves, create more workability, and shape their lives into the one God Designed for them.
Leaders
transform how they lead, leaning into playfulness and curiosity while staying grounded in hopeful discernment.
learn a new way of being God's people together: connected, empowered, living and leading without fear in a rapidly changing world.
Teams
Congregations
become learning communities who look inward, upward, and outward so as to become hope-filled blessings to others.
Communities
are engaged with curiosity and kindness, receiving the benefit of emotionally healthy and spiritually mature partners seeking God's best for their city.
Features of the Compass Initiative
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Flexible and accessible platforms. Both Faithwalking and CLC utilize online learning communities to stay connected and resourced. Plus, each team member chooses the Faithwalking group that works best for them.
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Cycles start in January, May, and September so you're able to jump into learning as soon as your team is ready.
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Paced-learning: each module builds on each other so that process reinforces the purpose of your learning. Plus, we've built in intentional "sabbath" seasons throughout the two years.
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Grow your connection and be inspired as you hear and learn from other group members across North America, allowing you to practice in and out of your context.
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Be equipped to start Faithwalking groups in your congregation.
The Compass Initiative comes at a reduced cost for both Faithwalking and the Primer- at $2400 per year, that's essentially two for the price of one!
Timeline and Topics
Year One
Awareness through Self-Discovery
Gain the tools necessary to see and be yourself, inside and out, transformed by the renewing of your mind and able to positively effect change in your life and leadership.
Authenticity
Learn to bring all that you know about yourself, God, and others to the transformation journey without shame by integrating all the parts of yourself holistically for the fully human, fully alive life.
Mental Models
Learn to see and understand how mental models function in life and leadership and what it takes to unearth and reform them to align with God's Design for your church.
Managing Anxiety
Become able to manage yourself and anxiety in groups as you navigate change in God-honouring ways.
Year Two
Scripture and Theology
Discover how mental models align with your theology and Scripture in order for your faith and action to become more fully aligned with what you, individually and communally, understand to be God's Design.
Emotional Maturity
As pursuing change increases anxiety for everyone, learn to be both defined and connected to God, yourself, and others so that you can withstand roadblocks and filter temptations on the path to pursuing God's Design.
Communal Change
Enact God's Design for spiritual communities by living and leading with the biblical values of love, courage, curiosity, authenticity, and integrity, and grow your key adaptive leadership capacities to meet the challenges of your unique context.
Year Two
What makes the Compass Initiative Different
In this long-form conversation, Trisha Taylor from the Leader's Journey joins Ken Shuman, the Director of Faithwalking and CLC's Coordinator, Edie Lenz, to talk about what makes the Compass Initiative different from other church renewal programs and events.
Pricing
The Compass Initiative comes at a reduced cost for both Faithwalking and the Primer- at $2400 per year, that's essentially two for the price of one!