IS SPIRITUAL FORMATION A PRIORITY IN YOUR CONGREGATION AND COMMUNITY?

Transform Your Leadership. Transform Your Congregation and Community.
*CEUs Also Available*

It’s challenging for leaders to infuse their ministry settings with transformational practices necessary to bring about heart and soul change in healthy, life-giving ways. In this seven-session, interactive symposium, we invite leaders and teams to explore readily applicable pathways that will aid you in facilitating biblical, contemplative and Trinitarian priorities with those God has called you to serve.

The symposium will offer interactive instruction and collegial dialogue around the process of enfolding and infusing spiritual formation into the life of your church and community. A creative mini soul care retreat and optional spiritual direction will also be offered. Coffee and snacks will be provided each morning, as well as lunch and dinner provided on days one and two. We will conclude prior to lunchtime on Oct 18. Invite your team to join you for this unique spiritual formation and leadership development experience!

I think one of the most significant benefits for me was the fellowship I had with those at the event. We bonded in a pretty special way, all very different places in life, but our sharing and ministering to one another was totally unexpected and a huge blessing.

 —  Pastor of Spiritual Formation,
Brenda Quinn, Highlands Ranch, CO.
S Y M P O S I U M   S P E A K E R S


Stephen Macchia
Founder & President, LTI
 
Steve is the founder and president of Leadership Transformations as well as the director of the Pierce Center for Disciple-Building at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Steve is a pastoral teacher, conference speaker, ministry leader, retreat facilitator, ministry mentor/coach, spiritual director and author of several books including Broken and Whole, Crafting a Rule of Life, Becoming a Healthy Church, Becoming a Healthy Disciple and Becoming a Healthy Team.


Matt Canlis
Creator of Godspeed

Matt is the creator of Godspeed, a short film about the spiritual formation he experienced during his 13 years as a parish minister in Scotland. Today he serves as pastor of Trinity Church in Wenatchee, Washington where he and his congregation are trying to translate the wisdom learned from people rooted in the parishes of Scotland onto American soil.


Susan Currie
Director of Selah
 Associate for Spiritual Formation, LTI

Susan serves as the Director of Leadership Transformation Inc's Selah Certificate Training Program in Spiritual Direction, with cohorts on the east coast, west coast, and in Europe. Over the past 30 years she has also offered retreat leadership and formation ministry to various church and parachurch bodies, including serving for 13 years as LTI's Spiritual Formation Associate with the Pierce Center for Disciple Building at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.



 
Jeremy Stefano
Minister of Spiritual Formation &
Director of Emmaus, LTI
 
In his role as minister of spiritual formation, Jeremy offers spiritual direction, leads retreats, teaches classes in spiritual formation and serves as the director of the Emmaus: Spiritual Leadership Community. The heartbeat of Jeremy’s calling is to encourage Christian leaders in the cultivation of their relationship with God. He has served churches as local pastor, interim pastor and as a visiting Bible teacher in Southern Africa and North America. 


Suz Skinner
Spiritual Formation Associate, LTI
 
Suz delights in journeying alongside people as they grow in their relationship with God and others. As both an artist and a spiritual director, she is called to help others "see" and respond to the beautiful, redeeming works of Christ, unfolded in the Scriptures and the stories of God's people. After recently fulfilling an interim church position focused on discipleship and community, Suz now serves as a Spiritual Formation Associate at the Pierce Center for Disciple Building at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and also offers spiritual direction in Gloucester, MA. 
S Y M P O S I U M   D E T A I L S


WHO IS THE SYMPOSIUM FOR?
This symposium is specifically designed for pastors, church teams, and ministry leaders who want to see spiritual formation woven into the DNA of their community life. For the sake of interaction, space is limited to the first 56 registrants.  Discounted pricing offered for groups of 3+ from the same organization.


WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY
October 16 - 18
* Optional Enneagram workshop morning of 10/16

REGISTRATION
$299 per person - Early Bird Pricing (Through 9/20)
$329 per person - Standard Pricing (After 9/20)
$49 per person -  Optional Enneagram workshop morning of 10/16
$279 per person - 3+ people from the same organization

 

LOCATION
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
130 Essex Street, South Hamilton, MA 01982


Nestled in the hills of Boston's beautiful North Shore, the Gordon-Conwell main campus and headquarters of Gordon-Conwell is spread out across 118 acres of lush greenery, just minutes from the ocean. A residential campus with a traditional education model, Gordon-Conwell Hamilton has an array of masters degrees, a world-renowned faculty, and countless opportunities for spiritual growth, study, and fellowship. Learn more about their programs.
 
S Y M P O S I U M   S C H E D U L E

WEDNESDAY, OCT 16


*Breakfast 0n Your Own
8:30   OPTIONAL: Pre-Symposium Enneagram Workshop - $49
12:00  Workshop Concludes

12:00  Registration Open for Symposium and Welcome Reception - Light Lunch
1:00    Introduction: Why "Spiritual" Belongs in Front of "Leader" (Steve Macchia)
1:30    Session 1: The Care of Souls in Congregations & Communities (Steve Macchia)
2:30    Break
3:00    Session 2: Spiritual Community: Contemplative Discipleship and Spiritual Formation (Susan Currie)
4:30    Break 
5:30    Dinner: Dinner & Topical Conversation: Becoming a Spiritually Health Church
7:00    Evening Prayer
7:30    Conclude for the Day
THURSDAY, OCT 17

*Breakfast on Your Own
8:30    Morning Prayer
9:00   Session 3: Introduction and Godspeed Film (Matt Canlis)
11:00  Session 4: Godspeed: Living at the Pace of Being Known (Matt Canlis)
12:00  Lunch
1:00    Session 5: Practicing Godspeed: Mini Soul Care Retreat (Suz Skinner & Steve Macchia)
5:30    Dinner: Dinner & Topical Conversation: Community at Godspeed
7:00    Evening Prayer
7:30    Conclude for the Day
FRIDAY, OCT 18

*Breakfast on Your Own
8:30    Morning Prayer
9:00    Session 6: Spiritual Practices: Shaped By and With One Another (Jeremy Stefano)
10:30  Break
11:00  Session 7: Sabbath Rest: The Turnkey to the Deeper Life (Steve Macchia)
12:00  Symposium Concludes
C O N T I N U I N G   E D U C A T I O N   C R E D I T 

2 Continuing Education Credits
Symposium Only

2.5 Continuing Education Credits
Enneagram Workshop + Symposium

For CEU credit, simply email Alex at sahn1@gordonconwell.edu.
Enneagram Workshop Only: No CEUs available.
S Y M P O S I U M   L O D G I N G  O P T I O N S

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S Y M P O S I U M   T E S T I M O N I E S
The most significant benefit for me personally was the shared joy of sitting at the feet of Jesus in community and experiencing the fullness of his Spirit communally.  I have never experienced such a sweet freedom of oneness in Christ in the midst of a congregation and I have tasted and seen the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
 —  2018 Symposium Participant,
Shelly Mallon, Indianapolis, IN
The repeated reminders that spiritual formation is capitalized and impossible apart from the indwelling and transformative work of the Holy Spirit have been very meaningful to me. In addition to the Enneagram workshop, both Karen and I were especially blessed by Howard Baker.
 —  2018 Symposium Participant,
Merle Mees, Liberty, MO
*O P T I O N A L  E N N E A G R A M   W O R K S H O P*
P r e - S y m p o s i u m  |  W e d ,  10/16  |  8 : 3 0  A M  -  N o o n
 
EXPLORE YOUR ENNEAGRAM TYPE

Enneagram (pronounced "Any-a-gram") means "nine points" in Greek, as it is made up of nine unique personality profiles. The Enneagram is an ancient tool that identifies one's primary personality style with its particular gifts and challenges to Christian maturity. It distinguishes the traits of one's true self (who we are created to be as bearers of Christ's image) from one's false self (who we want to be or who we want others to think we are) and it describes the primary way one engages relationships. It offers ways one can cultivate healthy relational interaction with God and with others. You may be familiar with other diagnostic tools such as MMPI, Meyers/Briggs, DISC, etc. The Enneagram is quite distinct in its approach as it illuminates not only the gift (virtue) of each type but the dark underbelly (vice) that accompanies that particular gift. It is a great help in counseling, spiritual direction and organizational/team development.
 
If you are brand new to the Enneagram, this helpful article by Alice Fryling provides a clear and biblically grounded overview. Originally published by Conversations Journal. In 2017, Fryling's new book on the Enneagram was released: Mirror for the Soul: A Christian Guide to the Enneagram.
WE WANT YOU THERE!
JOIN US FOR ENCOURAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY!
We believe your unique perspective and insight is valuable for leaders of communities and congregations.
Will you come and share it with others?
A Christian leader's own soul must be their first priority —
it is the wellspring from which everything flows.
Questions?
Visit www.leadershiptransformations.org
or contact us at info@leadershiptransformations.org or 877-TEAM LTI.