Faces: Familiar and Fresh

1. Faces: Familiar and Fresh Leadership for a changing heartland

2. An overview of our session

3. The changing reality My town and The urban millennium

4. The changing Heartland Let’s talk about it

5. The urban millennium • More and more of urban life and culture exists in rural places and small towns • More people live in urban places today than in any other time in human history

6. The urban millennium • Demographics • 2% in 1800 13% in 1900 more than 50% in 2007 • 20th century • from 220 million to 2.8 billion • Megacities (Tokyo, Delhi, New York City, Sao Paulo, Lagos …) • The emergence of global cities • 100 cities account for 30% of world’s economy • Centers of innovation • Slums and disparity

7. Intercultural competence A framework and skills

8. Intercultural competence framework

9. Intercultural competence framework • Attitudes respect, openness, curiosity and discovery • Knowledge the importance of understanding the world from others’ perspectives • Skills observation, listening, evaluating, analyzing, interpreting, relating • Internal Outcomes flexibility, adaptability, ethnorelative perspective, empathy • External Outcomes effective and appropriate behavior and communication of the individual in intercultural situations

10. DISCUSSION

11. Kaleidoscope Bible Study process • Respectful Communication Guidelines • Mutual Invitation • Kaleidoscope Bible Study

12. Respectful communication guidelines • R = take RESPONSIBILITY for what you say and feel without blaming others (“I”) • E = use EMPATHETIC listening • S = be SENSITIVE to differences in communication styles • P = PONDER what you hear and feel before you speak • E = EXAMINE your own assumptions and perceptions • C = keep CONFIDENTIALITY • T = TRUST ambiguity because we are not here to debate who is right or wrong

13. Mutual invitation • Leader shares first • Leader then invites another to share • That person is given the privilege to invite another to share • If you are not ready to share yet, say “I pass for now” • If you don’t want to say anything at all, say “pass” and invite another • We will do this until everyone has been invited • We invite you to listen and not to respond immediately. There will be time to respond and ask clarification questions after everyone has had an opportunity to share.

14. Kaleidoscope bible Study • Invite everyone to affirm the Respectful Communication Guidelines • Inform participants that we will read the Bible passage and share our reflections 3 times • Luke 4:14 - 21

15. Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country.He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:

16. ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,because he has anointed meto bring good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind,to let the oppressed go free,to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.

17. Kaleidoscope bible Study • First Reading • Invite participants to capture a word, a phrase or image when listening to the passage • Invite someone to read the passage • Take a moment of silence to capture a word, a phrase or image that stood out from the passage for them • Using Mutual Invitation, invite each person to briefly share his or her word, phrase or image (This should take no more than five minutes)

18. Kaleidoscope bible Study • Second Reading • Invite participants to consider the second question appointed for this passage. “Is Jesus showing a preference? Do you have your own preferences?” • Invite someone to read the passage a second time. • Take a moment of silence to reflect on the question. • Using Mutual Invitation, invite each person to share his or her reflection.

19. Kaleidoscope bible Study • Third Reading • Invite participants to consider the following question while listening to the passage again. • “What does God invite you to do, be or change through this passage?” • Invite someone to read the passage a third time. • Take a moment of silence to reflect on the question. • Using Mutual Invitation, invite each person to share his or her reflection.

20. Kaleidoscope bible Study • End the session with a prayer circle: • Invite participants to join hands in a circle. Invite each person to mentally complete the sentences: • I thank God today … • I ask God today … • The leader will begin by sharing his or her prayers. After sharing, the leader then squeezes the hand of the person to the right as the signal for that person to share their prayers. • If the person does not want to share, he or she can simply pass the pulse to the next person. • When the pulse comes back to the leader, he or she can begin the Lord’s Prayer and invite everyone to join in.

21. Other tools from Kaleidoscope • Three Things About You • Cultural Makeup • Your Cultural Makeup Today • Iceberg Analogy of Culture • The Table Exercise • Clarifying Questions • Creating A Grace Margin

25. Iceberg analogy of culture • The first step toward constructive profound (adaptive) organizational change is for its members to know the organization’s cultural iceberg – especially the internal cultures.

26. Creating a grace margin • Negotiate for time • Set parameters (no surprises) • Respectful Communication Guidelines • Include a diversity of God images through • Prayers • Kaleidoscope Bible Study • Songs • Liturgical framing of each gathering

27. Information and practical tools Index Mundi … Kaleidoscope … mission

28. Index Mundi (on Intersections blog Heartland Division page) • Kaleidoscope Institute • Territorial Multicultural Department (Karen and Alfredo). • Callahan “Discoveries About Mission”

29. Intersections blog urbanmissionblog.wordpress.com

30. The mission based corps • One excellent mission • A gift • Decisive events • Three to five people • Mutual