About

Backstory

Why IS THIS NEEDED?

Today’s clergy and seminarians face urgent challenges that demand adaptive, trauma-informed, justice-centered, and digitally fluent leadership. This project creates space for renewal, learning, and collaboration across identities and contexts so that leaders and congregations can flourish.

Current Challenges

• Burnout and spiritual fatigue
• Trauma and collective grief
• Civic polarization and conflict
• Racial inequity and cultural divides
• Rapid change in digital and AI landscapes

OUR VISION

A healing, justice-centered ecosystem where leaders cultivate resilience, intercultural competency, and ethical digital fluency—strengthening belonging and renewal in congregations and communities.

OUR GOALS

• Support spiritual and vocational renewal
• Strengthen adaptive & trauma-informed leadership
• Deepen racial literacy and cross-cultural competency
• Equip leaders for ethical AI and digital ministry
• Foster peer networks and mentoring relationships
• Generate sustainable resources for future learning

Theological Formation Perspective

Grounded in Wesleyan practices of spiritual formation and communal discernment, this project integrates pastoral theology, trauma-informed care, and practices of justice, repair, and belonging as essential to faithful leadership today.

Our Approach

Flourishing Together supports clergy, seminarians, and ministry leaders through a cohort-based journey that blends webinars, restorative retreats, peer mentoring, an annual leadership summit, and micro-grants for innovation. The program cultivates resilience, justice-centered and trauma-informed leadership, intercultural competency, and ethical digital fluency for ministry today.

Webinar Series

Five curated sessions per cohort on resilience, justice, technology, and trauma-informed leadership.

Restorative Retreats

Two-night, in-person gatherings for renewal, healing, and strategic leadership.

Leadership Summit

Annual 1-day summit with plenaries, workshops, planning, and commissioning.

Micro-Grants

$1,000 mini-grants for mentorship-centered innovation projects.