What in the world...does ARE actually do? 

Wherever you teach and learn, worship, or work --- our team of process facilitators, organizational designers, leadership trainers, and coaches can help you: 

• Revision your purpose and direction using radically participative, playful process strategies that engage your key stakeholders and people throughout your organization.
• Rebrand your organization for the sake of communicating your renewed vision more clearly and creatively.

• Realign your structure to support your renewed vision in a way that makes your organization both more adaptable and more resilient.

• Retool your leaders using the principles, practices, and processes of a Renewable Organization^TM so that you are able to move more confidently, creatively, and collaboratively into the emerging future.
• Resource your organization's shared purpose and direction by identifying, tapping into, and unleashing your financial resources.

•  Renew a sense of purpose and direction in your own life so that every day you know you are doing what matters.

Examples of projects we've worked on:

> Designed and facilitated a uniquely participative, multi-state process to help the people of the Central States Synod (ELCA) articulate a renewed and broadly owned sense of purpose

> Developed and tested an innovative process helping college students in the Western Mission Cluster develop a sense of their life’s purpose and direction 

> Designed and implemented the first steps of a community organizing project aimed at increasing public involvement and concern within the Kansas City School District 

> Used an asset-based, grassroots, deeply contextualized process to help the leaders of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod (ELCA) discern new strategic directions in which to focus their resources over the next several years 

> Guided the board and key donors of a young, growing, North Carolina-based nonprofit through its first visioning and strategic planning process 

> Designed and implemented a missional assessment for a large church in Virginia that is in the midst of a major staffing transition 

> Conducted teambuilding and leadership training events for newly appointed leaders in the redesigned structure of the Eastern Synod (ELCIC)

> Provided ongoing support and advice that helped a large UMC congregation in Maryland stay focused on mission throughout the final stages of a multi-million dollar expansion

> Designed and facilitated a year long process that helped a cluster of leadership teams from 12 congregations in South Carolina re-imagine what it means to be who you are and see what you have for the sake of doing what matters in their emerging context

> Conducted leadership workshops for religious leaders, both lay and ordained, from various denominations across the U.S. and Canada 

> Provided one-on-one coaching for leaders in executive positions throughout North America

How can we help you?!

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