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"Working with Margaret Benefiel has helped me, in a short time,
become grounded in Spirit in my corporate workplace. The power and
productivity of this spiritual work gives me hope that leaders can
encourage people to bring their whole selves into the workplace and
that this will lead to more tangible and positive organizational
results."--Kerry Hamilton Senior Vice President, Director of
Marketing, BJ's Wholesale Clubs In the last ten years, dozens of
books about spirituality and management have demonstrated the
yearning for spirituality in the workplace that exists in people
like Kerry Hamilton. No longer content to abide the widening chasm
between their deeply-held values and the all-too-common business
practices they encounter, these readers long for congruence between
their values and their work. They wonder whether the days of the
giants of corporate character like Johnson & Johnson,
businesses who believed that integrity and profitability could
co-exist, are gone for good. Are we living in a state of business
and organizational entropy? Are we doomed to endless repetition of
the Enron, Worldcom, and Global Crossing scandals? Must integrity
and profitability now be opposed? What has happened to American
business, healthcare, and non-profits in the last forty years?
"Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations "demonstrates
vividly that another way is possible, based on the contemporary
restoration of the partnership between integrity and profitability.
"Soul at Work" translates the core of what companies like Johnson
and Johnson stood for forty years ago into contemporary forms.
"Soul at Work "shows, through compelling stories of contemporary
businesses, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits, how
integrity, profitability, and personal and organizational
transformation are all of a piece.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Shalem Institute, this
collection of experiential and academic essays offers modern
contemplative reflections from new and renowned voices in spiritual
leadership. Founded in 1973 by the Rev. Dr. Tilden H. Edwards, Jr.,
Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation offers retreats,
workshops, and groups centered around contemplative spirituality.
The culmination of half a century of charitable ministry, this
commemorative anthology features essays written by Shalem
graduates, as well as current and former board members and program
directors. Its release will coincide with the Shalem Institute’s
50th anniversary. Co-edited by Shalem graduate and board member
Westina Matthews, Shalem’s Executive Director Margaret Benefiel,
and Jackson Droney, Shalem’s Director of Operations and Online
Learning, Soul Food takes an inclusive and contemporary approach to
contemplative living and leadership. Designed in alignment with
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, this vital book
spotlights authors of different ethnicities, faith backgrounds, and
gender identities, while consistently centering the development of
day-to-day practices designed to deepen engagement with the divine.
With essays from notable contributors from Shalem's past and
present, such as Tilden Edwards, the institute's founder and former
director; Gay Byron, Professor of New Testament and Early
Christianity at Howard University; and Carl McColman, well-known
Christian mystic and spiritual director, this collection looks to
the future, set to serve as an invaluable resource in spiritual
formation for the next 50 years, and beyond.
With national and international concern around issues of abuse,
burnout, meaninglessness, and spiritual bankruptcy in every
profession, supervision is becoming increasingly necessary for
people who desire life-giving care and understanding in their work
and ministry. This new book provides a framework of theory and
experience to develop the strengths and address the challenges of
professional supervision with particular focus on developing
spiritual sensitivity and competency."
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of
institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until
now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and
formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry.
Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders is
designed especially for women and men who, in collaboration with
vowed religious and the ordained, shepherd Church ministries and
touch the lives of countless people. Written by leading authorities
in biblical studies, theology, spirituality, church history, and
ecclesial leadership, the book is broken into four parts: Part one
invites lay leaders to claim their own call and commitment by
reflecting on the Catholic vision of spirituality, vocation,
mission and ministry, and the experiences of other leaders. Part
two grounds their work in the larger story of our institutional
ministries by examining their biblical, theological, and historical
roots. Part three probes the work of the Spirit in communities and
institutions, against the backdrop of contemporary cultural
realities, to help leaders develop the capacity to discern the
Spirit's workings. Part four focuses on issues central to the role
of a spiritual leader: the spirituality of administration, the task
of building community, the use of power and authority and work of
forming and mentoring others. Questions at the end of each chapter
invite further reflection on the themes explored.
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of
institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until
now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and
formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry.
Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders is
designed especially for women and men who, in collaboration with
vowed religious and the ordained, shepherd Church ministries and
touch the lives of countless people. Written by leading authorities
in biblical studies, theology, spirituality, church history, and
ecclesial leadership, the book is broken into four parts: Part one
invites lay leaders to claim their own call and commitment by
reflecting on the Catholic vision of spirituality, vocation,
mission and ministry, and the experiences of other leaders. Part
two grounds their work in the larger story of our institutional
ministries by examining their biblical, theological, and historical
roots. Part three probes the work of the Spirit in communities and
institutions, against the backdrop of contemporary cultural
realities, to help leaders develop the capacity to discern the
Spirit's workings. Part four focuses on issues central to the role
of a spiritual leader: the spirituality of administration, the task
of building community, the use of power and authority and work of
forming and mentoring others. Questions at the end of each chapter
invite further reflection on the themes explored.
Recent crises have revealed the desperate need for wise, grounded
leadership. Too often, leaders have little experience and even less
training in how to address crises in a way that strengthens their
communities and guides them into the future. Drawing on examples
from government, business, health care, non-profits, and the
church, this book helps leaders in those sectors in the present
crises and beyond. When a pandemic closes down churches, schools,
and offices; when protests rage over racist police brutality; when
everything you've always done as a leader becomes irrelevant, where
can you turn? This book examines leaders who creatively navigated
crises, drawing out principles of crisis leadership from them. This
series of Little Books of Leadership is designed to foster
conversations within congregations around certain principles and
practices that nurture community and growth in the ongoing life of
the church.
The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research and
Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century contributes to an
understanding of the importance and implications of a contemplative
grounding for higher education. It is the fourth in a series
entitled Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research and
Application, which is intended to be an authoritative and
comprehensive series in the field. This volume consists of chapters
written by noted scholars from both Eastern and Western traditions
that shed light on the following questions: What is an appropriate
epistemological grounding for contemplative higher education? How
dues the current dominant epistemology in higher education mitigate
against contemplative teaching, learning, and research? What
alternatives can be offered? How can a contemplative culture be
nurtured in the classroom? What difference does that culture make
in teaching and learning? What is the role of individual and
institutional leadership in creating and sustaining this culture?
What is contemplative research? How can the emerging field of
contemplative studies fit into the twenty-first-century university?
What can faculty and students learn from contemplative practices
about how to find peace of mind in a world of higher education
characterized by increasing complexity, financial pressures, and
conflicts? What does a contemplative organizational structure look
like in higher education? How can committees, faculty meetings, and
administrative teams use contemplative practices to work more
effectively together? How can contemplative decision-making
processes be used in higher education? Given hierarchies, turf
wars, and academics' propensity for using argument as a weapon, is
it possible to introduce contemplative practices into
decision-making situations in appropriate ways?
"All around the world a resurgence of Christian contemplative
living is creating a new framework for spirituality inside and
outside of formal religion. Building on and expanding from the
thoughts and works of such as Richard Rohr, Thomas Keating, Tilden
Edwards, Laurence Freeman, and other founding members of the modern
contemplative movement, a new movement carries on the work of their
mentors. This collection brings together the diverse voices who
have emerged as new leaders of the contemplative movement.
Exploring a multitude of themes, such as silence, imagination,
meditation, embodiment, community and social action, this volume
introduces the new voices who reflect globally on the gifts,
challenges, differences and commonalities of Christian
contemplation today for communities and people of faith."
The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research and
Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century contributes to an
understanding of the importance and implications of a contemplative
grounding for higher education. It is the fourth in a series
entitled Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research and
Application, which is intended to be an authoritative and
comprehensive series in the field. This volume consists of chapters
written by noted scholars from both Eastern and Western traditions
that shed light on the following questions: What is an appropriate
epistemological grounding for contemplative higher education? How
dues the current dominant epistemology in higher education mitigate
against contemplative teaching, learning, and research? What
alternatives can be offered? How can a contemplative culture be
nurtured in the classroom? What difference does that culture make
in teaching and learning? What is the role of individual and
institutional leadership in creating and sustaining this culture?
What is contemplative research? How can the emerging field of
contemplative studies fit into the twenty-first-century university?
What can faculty and students learn from contemplative practices
about how to find peace of mind in a world of higher education
characterized by increasing complexity, financial pressures, and
conflicts? What does a contemplative organizational structure look
like in higher education? How can committees, faculty meetings, and
administrative teams use contemplative practices to work more
effectively together? How can contemplative decision-making
processes be used in higher education? Given hierarchies, turf
wars, and academics' propensity for using argument as a weapon, is
it possible to introduce contemplative practices into
decision-making situations in appropriate ways?
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