Leading Well: A Five-Session Online Leadership Course (2026)
Looking to develop in your leadership? Wanting to explore how to lead a church in mission? Longing for a place to explore questions and concerns in a safe environment? This course is for you.
Leading well as a Christian leader, lay or ordained, is both stimulating and demanding, particularly during the early years of a leadership post. This course will enable you to invest in two areas: your ‘outer life’ (the leadership skills to lead a church and team well) and your ‘inner life’ (leading in a way that is life-giving and sustainable).
This course will provide you with space to reflect, strategies you can implement and time to process questions with a small group, such as:
- What is distinctive about Christian leadership, and how does this practically shape our priorities and style as a leader?
- What does a missional and collaborative culture look like, and what is our role in enabling this?
- How do we facilitate change in a way that enables churches to flourish rather than fragment?
- How do we establish healthy rhythms of ‘work and rest’ that are life-giving and keep us fresh and focused?
Who is it for: incumbents of Anglican churches in the UK and Ireland; Children, Youth and Family Workers; anyone in full-time ministry (lay or ordained) with significant responsibility and oversight of others.
When: a day (9.30am-3.30pm) a month from January to May 2026:
- Session 1 (Reflect and Refocus): Thursday 15 January 2026.
- Session 2 (Shaping Church Culture and Leading by Grace): Thursday 5 February 2026.
- Session 3 (The Art of Collaboration and Managing Pressure): Thursday 5 March 2026.
- Session 4 (Developing Leaders and Healthy Boundaries): Thursday 23 April 2026.
- Session 5 (Leading Change and Resilience in Leadership): Thursday 14 May 2026.
Commitment: signing up for this course indicates commitment to attending all five sessions in their entirety, and to around 30 minutes preparation ahead of each session. If you are unable to make this commitment this time round, please sign up for a later course.
Where: sessions will be held on Zoom – we know a whole day on Zoom doesn’t sound great, but we have worked hard on how to engage people well on Zoom throughout a day, and are confident you will find it a positive experience.
Cost: £300.
Most clergy will have access to a Continuing Ministerial Education grant from their diocese. You may wish contact your diocese to see if one is available to help you cover the cost of this course.
Numbers are limited to enable maximum interaction within the group, so early booking is advised to secure your place.
Bookings will close on Tuesday 13 January 2026.
Further information: To find out more, ask a question or book a 1:1 chat with one of our team.
‘The course was very well planned, very well prepared and very well delivered.’
'I definitely would recommend this course. It was good to step outside of the daily routine and spend rich time reflecting on leadership. The input and material were great and the chance to hear from others was so useful.'