The Servant Leadership School of Greensboro
The Servant Leadership School of Lexington is centered in the belief that we are living in a time of great opportunity and change. We seek to be an ecumenical center where people of diverse backgrounds can come together in community to explore God’s dream for a transformed world.
The most pressing need of our time, the need for compassionate, spiritually-grounded leadership, requires time and space to develop. Our goal is to provide opportunities to nurture the qualities that will allow us to participate in a journey which can enable us to love deeply, embrace suffering, share power, and claim our identity as beloved children of God.
Bennett Sims, among other prophetic voices, suggests that we are currently living on a “hinge of history.” In our Servant Leadership classes, we learn to recognize the two distinct and fundamentally different world views presented biblically as the movement out of the “Domination System” of Egypt or Empire into Jesus’ alternative which he called the “Kingdom of God.” This core biblical narrative, the movement from bondage to freedom, is a shift from the “voice of fear” to the “voice of hope.”
Using the philosophy of the Church of the Savior in Washington, D. C., we explore the difficulties involved in creating loving and just communities and institutions where we are—and why it’s worth the effort. In affiliation with the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro, we explore both an inward journey of personal transformation and an outward journey to discern our own unique “call” and to express this in some form of life-giving service in the world in which we live.
Servant Leadership Course
Discovering The Enneagram: An Introductory Workshop
Mondays, February 13- March 19, 2012
10:00-12:00 AM
Commons Room: Grace Church
$35.00 (Scholarships available)
Leaders: Rev. Elaine Kebba and Tom Kebba,
Facilitated by Rev. Bonnie Duckworth and Susan Terrell
* Do you find yourself wanting to understand your work associates
better?
* Do you want to understand your self better?
* Do you wonder why people act the way they do?
* Do you wonder what other people really want?
* Do you get confused because it is hard to understand what motivates
others?
WHAT IS THE ENNEAGRAM?
The Enneagram is a study of the nine basic types of people. Itexplains why we behave the way we do, and it points to specific directions for individual growth. It is an important tool for improving relationships with co-workers, family, and friends. Newcomers to the Enneagram's descriptions often recognize themselves and their friends with a clarity that astounds them. The system pinpoints our unconscious worldview and self-image, our inner motivation and habits of processing information. The Enneagram says that each of us has a central way of making sense of reality, a personality strategy that informs everything we do. This strategy guides us through life providing us an inner map of the world, that in turn, shapes our outer behavior.
The Enneagram teaches that in early life we learned to feel safe and to cope with our relational circumstances by developing a strategy based on our natural talents and abilities. By working with the Enneagram we develop a deeper understanding of others and learn alternatives to our own patterns of behavior. We break free from worn-out coping strategies and begin to see life from a broader point of view.
Effective growth, whether as an individual or an organization, needs to take into account the fact that there are different kinds of people. This diversity explains why good advice for one person can be disastrous for another. At work each Enneagram type has a characteristic agenda and operates within a particular decision-making frame.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:
After taking this workshop, participants can expect to:
* Identify their own type and discover how this type is similar and different from others.
* Examine how these personality similarities and differences facilitate and block effective relationships.
* Develop and sharpen interpersonal skills that will heighten personal relationships.
* Understand the basic differences between people, allowing them to nurture positive relationships while remaining
comfortable with themselves.
LEADERS:
The Rev. Elaine M. Kebba
has been an Episcopal priest for 23 years in parish ministry, offers workshops in Spiritual Development, Spiritual Retreats, and Spiritual Coaching/Mentoring. Elaine assists with curriculum development for the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro, does extensive teaching of the Enneagram, as well as teaches companion classes and leads small groups. B.S., University of Maryland (College Park); M.S., University of North Carolina at Greensboro; M.Div., Virginia Theological Seminary.Thomas J. Kebba. MA, LPC, NCC,
is an experienced independent consultant, marriage and family therapist, director of a counseling agency, teacher of the Enneagram, and seminar leader. B.A., University of Maryland (College Park), M.A. Towson State University, Internship in Marriage, Family, and Sex Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.Please call or email the church office to register by February 6, 2012.