Evocative Leadership

EVOCATIVELEADERSHIP

Leading to Live Out the Christ Within

Into the Christ Beyond

Starbucks Generation

Asking themselves:

What do I want?!

Starbucks Generation

Starbucks corporate aim:

Help you answer the questionwith a Starbucks product.

Resonance

I wantSelf Object

Resonance(Service)

I want

Self OtherI want

I needI need

Resonance(Spiritual)

I want I want

I needI need

God’s Desire

Self Other

Resonance(Spiritual)

I want

Self OtherI want

I needI need

God’s Desire

Faith Community

Faith Community:

Foster Environments that amplify spiritual resonance

How to foster spiritual resonance?

Evocative Leadership:

Encounter and Immersion

Encounter and Immersion

Self

Context

Christ Within

Immersion in the Other/Context

Self Context

Christ Within

Matt 25

Evocative leadershipFostering deeper

and wider immersion

ImmersionSelf --- Context

Being present Attending Sympathetic Understanding Focal Commitment Responding More, Better, Deeper,

Wider…

Three Disciplinesof Immersion

ContemplactionThe practice of contemplatively engaging self and other

Depth

Three Disciplinesof Immersion

1. Contemplaction

2. Exploraction

ConversactionThe practice of spiritually activated conversationthat evokes the Christ Within and matures toward the Christ Beyond.

Three Disciplinesof Immersion

1. Contemplaction2. Exploraction

2.

Holy Conversaction

Intensifies

Deepens

Amplifies

Extends

Holy Conversaction

Oriented to Personal and Social Holiness

Evoking greater immersion

Persons

Groups

Communities

Congregations

Evocative Leadership

3 Primary Aims:1. Be Authentic, Maturing

Disciple2. Organize Communities of

Immersion3. Develop Leaders who evoke

greater discipleship in others.

Evocative Leadership

Leading to

…Dwell in the Christ Within

…Mature into the Christ Beyond

Homework??

Who has been an evocative leader to you? What did they do?

Who would name you as an evocative leader to them? What did you do?