Learn about the LeaderWise CrossForm Program

CrossForm is a unique approach to equipping congregations for 21st century ministry. Like a well-executed strength training program, CrossForm strengthens your CORE, and builds FLEXIBILITY in your system to deepen your IMPACT in the world.

Join us online for an informational session

JUNE 10
1 hour, starting at 2P ET / 1P CT / NOON MT / 11A PT

CrossForm is designed around five immersions over a 15-month period with monthly minister group coaching via zoom.  

Immersion 1 - Exploring our Foundations

As we get to know each other individually and collectively, we seek to understand the ministry contexts in which we serve. We endeavor to strengthen our internal sense of welcome and inclusion because we must first be community before we can serve community.

Immersion 2 - Leading Adaptive Change

Today, there are no quick fixes. We equip congregations and communities to think about change as a long arc bending toward justice. And we explore how to lead culture change. Using the frameworks of adaptive leadership and Bridges’ model of transitions, congregation teams will begin to think about how to lead change in their contexts.

Immersion 3 - Incubating Innovation

Bringing the whole congregation and community along can feel insurmountable. But the 2-loop model of change provides a way to innovate, while at the same time allowing some who need stability to have the church they’ve always needed.

Immersion 4 - Moving Forward

We introduce the concept of positive deviance in order to inspire individual congregations and the cohort as a whole to create their own positive deviance in small and large ways. We give space for teams to begin to design their own forward movement.

Immersion 5 - Learning From Each Other

Finally, we gather to look at how we continue to strengthen our core, expand our flexibility, and increase our impact within our communities. We will share our plans, celebrate our progress, and design a process for next steps. 

Woven throughout the experience - No matter where in the country you live, we cannot responsibly lead change without thinking about cultural difference. Whether that difference is race, ethnicity, age, class, gender, sexual preference, or something else, it is imperative to wonder together who is our neighbor and how we are called to be in community.