Servant Leadership Course, DC Trip and Other Trainings
On Fridays, fellows receive leadership training in the Servant Leadership model. Servant Leadership is about discovering our true selves, understanding and owning our shadow-sides, and moving toward an authentic self that is in communion with Creator and creation, compassionate with oneself and others, and in alignment with divine power and purpose. Fellows participate in an eight-week Servant Leadership course in the fall with members of the wider JSC community.
At the conclusion of the Servant Leadership course, fellows visit Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC, to experience first-hand how servant leadership practice has created a unique and inspiring faith community.
Throughout the year, fellows also participate in trainings and workshops about social justice issues, spiritual practices, and understanding the self, others, and group dynamics. Fellows attend a two-day anti-racism training each year.
Call and Money
This is a six-week, foundational course offered in the early winter and designed to build upon the work of the fall Servant Leadership class. Call and Money is designed to deepen the fellows’ process of “vocational discernment” by going deeper into the elements of “call” and exploring their personal relationship to “money.” In this course, the fellows gain a better understanding of how these two areas can either support or conflict with “living into” their sense of call and service.
Praxis Project
In late spring, fellows complete a Praxis Project. For this project, they work together as a group to discern a call to a particular need in the local community, develop a project plan, write a small grant proposal and present it, administer the project, complete a project report, and evaluate and reflect on the whole experience. The Praxis Project is a way to put the values and theory of Servant Leadership into practice in a concrete way and represents the culmination of the fellows’ service experience.