Serve God with Joy
Resilience for Faith-Based Leaders
Faith-based leaders navigate a unique set of challenges, balancing the demands of employers, teams, and communities, all while maintaining high personal standards. After decades of coaching and mentoring hundreds of leaders, Matthew Freeman and Tamra Wright have designed a groundbreaking programme to help leaders thrive, even in the most challenging times.
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In just two months, you will acquire essential skills to lead a fulfilling, healthy life while effectively guiding your team or community with renewed energy.
Our program offers insights from cutting-edge research in productivity and positive psychology, providing you with tools to avoid burnout and transform setbacks into opportunities for growth. You will learn to:
Develop positive new habits
Overcome self-defeating patterns of thought and behaviour
Enhance your empathy, focus, and creativity
These skills will benefit both your professional and personal life, empowering you to lead with greater joy and confidence.
Transform your Leadership Journey
Together, we will embark on a transformative journey, enabling you to lead with renewed optimism and energy. You will benefit from learning Stanford professor Dr BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits approach to behaviour change with Tamra, a certified Tiny Habits coach, and complete the 6-week 'Positive Intelligence' program created by best-selling author Shirzad Chamine. You will also have access to the Positive Intelligence 'PQ' app for a whole year, to reinforce the progress you make this summer.
What's Included
About the Programme Leaders
Matthew and Tamra are friends and colleagues who first met when Matthew joined the faculty of the Senior Faith in Leadership Programme. After years of working together, they recently decided it was time to harness their combined talents to create a unique programme for faith-based leaders.
Tamra Wright
Dr. Tamra Wright brings an unusual combination of skills to coaching and leadership development. Her academic background in philosophy enables her to think deeply and critically about leadership challenges and proposed solutions, and she draws on decades of experience teaching, coaching, and mentoring hundreds of leaders and educators from different faith communities. Tamra is a Senior Adjunct Professor at Yeshiva University, Curriculum Development Advisor at Faith in Leadership, Senior Research Fellow at LSJS, and the founder of 2020 Torah. She is the author of The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethical Hermeneutics (1999), and co-editor of Face to Face with Animals: Levinas and the Animal Question (2019) and Radical Responsibility: Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (2012). She has published numerous articles on contemporary Jewish thought and, more recently, on Judaism and Positive Psychology. Her article "Serve God with Joy (and Self-Actualization): Positive Psychology and the Thought of Rabbi Sacks" is included in An Ode to Joy (2024). She is a certified Tiny Habits Coach and a Positive Intelligence Coach.
Matthew Freeman
Matthew Freeman, an Anglophile American, isn't just a facilitator, author, and coach – he's a bridge builder. His passion is helping individuals and groups overcome differences and find common ground to tackle complex challenges. Sought after globally, Matthew has brought his expertise to diverse audiences – from members of the US Congress and the Federal Reserve to Fortune 500 companies and small charities across the US, UK, Europe, Kenya, and Hong Kong.
With a unique background in science and Christian church history, Matthew sheds light on how our brains can hinder collaboration and progress. He delves into these topics in his book, Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences, and his numerous articles.
FAQ
What's the time commitment?
We will ask you to watch up to 60 minutes of video material over the weekend, to prepare for the week's webinar and exercises. From Monday to Friday, you will:
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Attend a 60-minute webinar on Monday (recordings will be available)
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Spend 15 minutes per day to complete app-based exercises (3 minutes x 5 times per day)
Is financial support available?
From September 2024, the full price of this programme will be £1200. We are offering a significant discount for early adopters who join the first cohort. The reduced course fee will be £800, with generous bursaries available for those who don't have institutional support.
Please don't let concerns about finance prevent you from joining us! If you have questions about the bursary scheme or prefer to pay by bank transfer, please email Matthew or Tamra for more information.