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Yale Divinity School
409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06515Leadership in Public Ministry (Rel. 985)
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Introduction
Leadership in Public Ministry is a supervised ministry course designed to teach students how to work with others to create change in community. Students learn about how community leaders define leadership and how they become leaders. They also learn how to practice justice and use power in ways that are biblically based and theologically grounded. The course is now being offered in both the summer and the academic year. Both terms start off with a period of intensive classroom training and continue with work in a local site under the supervision of an experienced practitioner. This is combined with regular classroom meetings designed to enrich the concepts and skills taught in the initial training, as well as to offer reflection time for interns to share their experiences.
To see the specific timelines for each session, click on Summer or Academic Year.
For more information on Leadership in Public Ministry internship sites, click on Site Descriptions.
Goals
- to learn how leaders define “leadership”
- to learn to distinguish “public” and “private” relationships
- to compare various models of public leadership (e.g. activism and advocacy, broad-based organizing, movement building)
- to develop theologies and spiritualities of public leadership
- to prepare for ministries involving the public sphere
Assignments
- a Learning Agreement
- attendance and active participation
- approximately 100 pages of reading
- a 500 word reflection paper
- a final report (written by supervisor and signed by intern)
Placement Process
Students will interview with potential supervisors to find a placement that matches their interests. All sites in the program are doing some type of organizing and/or advocacy work, some on specific issues and some across several issues.
The summer term of Leadership in Public Ministry is an eleven-week, full-time internship program that begins with two weeks of training with field trips and meetings with local leaders, and then continues with nine weeks working in a local site under the supervision of an experienced practitioner. Interns gather for four afternoons during the summer for further training and reflection. This time is designed to let students test the validity of the concepts and skills taught during the initial training from the perspective of their practice in the field. The program concludes with a trip to Immokalee, FL to study one of the sites related to the program. The summer term of LPM carries three elective academic credits.
Schedule
May 19 – 30 Training (no training on May 26)
June 2 – July 31 Internship
June 13, 27, July 11, 25 Training (1-5pm)
August 1 Training, Trip preparation (9am-5pm)
August 4-8 Immersion Trip to Immokalee, FL
Financial Arrangements
Tuition in 2007 was $1,050. Interns were eligible for a grant of $3100 through the Office of Financial Aid.
Syllabus
Leadership in Public Ministry (Rel. 985)
Yale Divinity School
Summer 2008
Instructors: Barbara Blodgett and Patrick Speer
Monday, May 19
reading: Jim Watkins, “Carrying the Right Gear: Every Alligator is a Politician,” \
pp 136-42
am: Introductions and Morning Prayer
Overview of participating sites
Leadership Training: How to define public ministry; How to define leadership; How to recognize leadership qualities; How to recognize anti-leaders
pm: Leadership Training: How to distinguish public and private relationships; How to do an individual meetingIndividual Meeting: Who are you?
Tuesday, May 20
reading: Jim Watkins, “Carrying the Right Gear: Every Alligator is a Politician,” pp. 142-163
Chambers, ch. 4 “Relationships: Private and Public”
am: Morning Prayer
I.M.: What do you live for? What stands in your way of living for what you say you are living for?
Leadership Training: How to remember people (the Stick Person and its variants); Faith and Public Life
pm: Field trip
Debrief field trip
Wednesday, May 21
reading: Chambers, ch. 2 “The Relational Meeting”
McNeil, “The Soft Arts of Organizing”
am: Morning Prayer
Field Trip
pm: Debrief field trip
I.M.: Who are your allies?
Leadership Training: Relational organizing and the importance of the
“soft arts”; the Iron Rule
Thursday, May 22
reading: Asbed, “!Golpear A Uno Es Golpear A Todos!” To Beat One of Us is to Beat Us All!”
am: Morning Prayer
Field Trip
pm: Debrief field trip
Leadership Training: How to distinguish problems from issues
Friday, May 23
reading: Chambers, ch. 1 “The World as It Is and the World as It Should Be” and
ch. 5 “The Practice of Public Life: Research, Action, Evaluation”
am: Morning Prayer
Field Trip
pm: Debrief field trip
I.M.: When do you experience tension?
Leadership Training: Public life: tension, conflict, adversity
Tuesday, May 27
reading: Chambers, ch. 3 “Broad-Based Organizing: An Intentional Response to the Human
Condition"
am: Morning Prayer
Field trip
pm: Debrief field trip
I.M.: When have you exercised power?
Leadership Training: Power
Wednesday, May 29
reading: Harvey K. Newman, “A Craft for Navigating the Swamp: Alligators in the Regime”
am: Morning Prayer
Field trip
pm: Debrief field trip
Leadership Training: How to distinguish relational power from linear power; How to distinguish relational organizing from bureaucratic organizing
Video: “Democratic Promise”
Thursday, May 29
reading: TBA
am: Field trip
pm: I.M.: What is your vocation?
Leadership Training: How to do a power analysis; a Typology of social
change organizations; the “Two Feet” of charity and justice
Friday, June 30
reading: Parker Palmer, “Seeking New Leadership—From Within”
am: Morning Prayer
Field Trip
pm: Debrief field trip
Leadership Training: The Monsters: Insecurity, Anger, Fear, and Denial of Death
I.M.: What are your particular monsters?
Closing Worship
Evaluation of training
June 13
Topics: Qualities of leadership, Anti-leadership
June 27
Topics: Public and private relationships
July 11
Topics: Power, tension, conflict, adversity
July 25
Topics: the world as it is vs. as it should be, Iron Rule, Problems vs. issues
Aug 1
Sharing reflection papers
Aug 4-8
Immokalee!
The year-long version of Leadersrhip in Public Ministry is taken throughout the entire academic year. It begins with six weeks of training, and then continues with training combined with work in a site under the supervision of an experienced practitioner. The continued training is designed to let students test the validity of the concepts and skills taught during the initial training from the perspective of their practice in the field. The program includes two immersion trips to study sites related to the program: one during early January to Immokalee, FL where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers is based, and one during spring break to tour broad-based organizations on the east coast.
If taken during the academic year, LPM carries six elective academic credits (three per semester).
Schedule
1) Class sessions on Fridays 1:30-4:30pm:
weekly during September and October (7 class sessions)
biweekly thereafter throughout Fall and Spring semesters (7 more class sessions)
2) Internship of 12 hours/week:
starting in Late October and continuing through the Spring semester
3) Immersions- two trips of 7 days each:
Fall Reading Week and early January
Financial Arrangements
Interns are eligible for a grant of $3100 through the Office of Financial Aid.
Syllabus (tentative)
Leadership in Public Ministry (Rel. 985)
Yale Divinity School
Academic Year 2008-2009
Instructors: Anthony Bennett, Barbara Blodgett, Patrick Speer
Class Session One
Getting ourselves organized!
Class Session Two
reading: Jim Watkins, “Carrying the Right Gear: Every Alligator is a Politician,”
pp 136-42
training: How to define public ministry
How to define leadership
How to recognize leadership qualities
How to recognize anti-leaders
Individual Meeting: Who are you?
Class Session Three
reading: Jim Watkins, “Carrying the Right Gear: Every Alligator is a Politician,” pp. 142-163
Chambers, ch. 4 “Relationships: Private and Public”
training: How to distinguish public and private relationships
How to do an individual meeting
How to remember people (the Stick Person and its variants)
I.M.: What do you live for? What stands in your way of living for what you say you are living
for?
Class Session Four
reading: Chambers, ch. 2 “The Relational Meeting”
McNeil, “The Soft Arts of Organizing”
training: Relational organizing and the importance of the “soft arts”
Faith and Public Life
I.M.: Who are your allies?
Class Session Five
reading: Asbed, “!Golpear A Uno Es Golpear A Todos!” To Beat One of Us is to Beat Us All!”
Chambers, ch. 1 “The World as It Is and the World as It Should Be” and
ch. 5 “The Practice of Public Life: Research, Action, Evaluation”
training: The Iron Rule
How to distinguish problems from issues
Public life: tension, conflict, adversity
I.M.: When do you experience tension?
Class Session Six
reading: Chambers, ch. 3 “Broad-Based Organizing: An Intentional Response to the Human Condition”
Harvey K. Newman, “A Craft for Navigating the Swamp: Alligators in the Regime”
training: Video: “Democratic Promise”
How to distinguish relational power from linear power
How to distinguish relational organizing from bureaucratic organizing
Power
I.M.: When have you exercised power?
Class Session Seven
reading: TBA
Parker Palmer, “Seeking New Leadership—From Within”
training: How to do a power analysis
a Typology of social change organizations
the “Two Feet” of charity and justice
The Monsters: Insecurity, Anger, Fear, and Denial of Death
I.M.: What is your vocation?
Class Session Eight
Review: Qualities of leadership, Anti-leadership
Class Session Nine
Review: Public and private relationships
Class Session Ten
Review: Power, tension, conflict, adversity
Class Session Eleven
Review: the world as it is vs. as it should be, Iron Rule
Class Session Twelve
Review: Problems vs. Issues
Class Session Thirteen
Sharing reflection papers
Class Session Fourteen
Final Review