How Do Leaders Remain Stable in an Age of Chaos?

A limited podcast series and a one-day gathering (20 places) for leaders

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Church leadership has changed.

The noise is relentless. The complexity keeps increasing, and many leaders are carrying levels of pressure, exhaustion, and overwhelm that no amount of strategy or resilience training seems to resolve.

Because the issue is no longer just what is happening around you, it is what that pressure is doing within you.

And if you are honest, you can feel it too.

New Podcast

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Over the coming months, with Dr MaryJo Burchard, we are releasing a limited podcast series: Leadership in an Age of Chaos

At the heart of it is a simple but pressing question:

How do leaders remain internally stable in an age of chaos?

To explore this, we have brought together a small group of voices those working at depth across leadership, organisational life, and theological formation

Voices formed by work in:

• Leadership and organisational systems under pressure

• The cultural forces shaping leaders today

• Church leadership in complex, fast-moving environments

Conversations include contributions from people such as Karise Hutchinson, Eve Poole, Simon Walker, and Glynn Barrett, not as headline names, but as practitioners and thinkers helping us engage this question at depth.

Together, we explore:

• The defended and undefended self

• Power under pressure

• Affect, attention, and emotional regulation

• Identity, meaning, and participation in Christ

Not abstract theory. But an exploration of what is happening inside leaders right now
and of a way of leading already given in Christ, waiting to be recovered, activated, and lived. Not something new to add. But something to encounter and to be released into.

The kind of leader you were drawn to become in the first place

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But insight on its own is not enough. At some point, this work has to be done in you. So alongside this, I will be hosting a one-day, in-person experience:

Saturday 19th September: Waverley Abbey, 20 places only

This is not a conference. It is not content delivery.

Led by Dr MaryJo Burchard and me, this day at Waverley Abbey is designed to meet leaders at the level where leadership is now being formed, the inner life.

A deeply practical and experiential day of formation where what God has already placed within you is drawn together, integrated, stabilised, and activated, so you can return to your life and leadership able to lead from that place in partnership with Christ

You will be guided to:

• Map and better understand the chaos you are facing, and understand its impact

• Recognise how you respond under pressure

• Recover a deeper sense of who you are in God

• Begin to lead from that place

• Draw together your insights, experiences, and calling into a coherent map you can live and lead from

To bring together what you have learned about yourself over the years, so all that can work at a deeper level in your identity, faith, and calling that this moment requires, and you long for.

This is not about adding more.

It is about uncovering and releasing what God has already placed within you

You won’t leave with more to manage. You will leave with clarity, integration, and a grounded stability you can carry back into the reality of your leadership.

If this does not just feel interesting, but necessary, then stay close.

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Because this moment requires something different, and something in you already knows it and longs for it.