Field Guide for the Future:

Design, Theology, and Innovation

How it works

  • ✺ Putting your cohort together

    Are you and your team ready to take the next step? Whether your group is comprised of paid staff, a team of volunteers, or community leaders let’s move forward together exploring the future for you and your congregations and/or organizations.

  • ✺ Getting in touch

    Fill out the form below and tell us a bit more about yourselves. We would love to hear from you and learn more about what you are up to. The more information the better. We are here to understand your communities and contexts so we can better partner with you for a sustainable and flourishing future.

  • ✺ Getting started

    This cohort requires a 12-week commitment. Each week you will be joined live by our team for lecture and conversation. Each call will be recorded via zoom to be watched if a team member can’t make it. But it is recommended to join live as much as you can in order to get the most out of our team who are on the calls live to address your specific contexts and concerns.

What we’ll cover

  • ✺ Design

    Human Centered Design as a methodology for identifying real and felt needs through human curiosity and imagination. How to test the solutions to such a need and what iterative processes look like in faith communities and organizations.

  • ✺ Theology

    Innovative theology as a means to foster spiritual growth and transformation that is ever open to the changing spiritual needs of community.

  • ✺ Innovation

    Innovation takes time and commitment to doing the work. Following cultural trends, shifts, and emerging changes to better understand the contexts in which we do ministry. It all goes deeper than you think.

What’s inside 12 weeks?

This is a 12-week course preparing you for your journey toward spiritual innovation, the practice of it, and why it is needed as we move into the future. Each student will move swiftly through theories of innovative theology, finance, technologies, culture, coupled with an introduction to Human Centered Design and why this all matter for the future of your context.

Weeks 1-6

What do cultural climates have to do with sustainable ministry? As we delve into the shifting religious landscapes of the 21st century, new cultural climates, changing economic realities, and emerging digital horizons we will start to get a better view of how these changes have fundamentally effected ministry and organizational positioning.

Week 7

What is innovative theology and is that even possible? The truth is nothing happens outside of social environments and communal understandings of life and meaning. The same is true for theological paradigms. Let’s explore what this means for faith leadership in 21st-century congregations.

Weeks 8-11

What if we employed human curiosity and imagination as a way of determining an identified need in a community? And what about spiritual needs and faith formation and transformation? Let’s take a closer look at a crucial methodology for building sustainable and viable communities of faith.

Week 12

Time to take a look at the future. What will our ethos be going forward? What are the concepts that will carry us through change and more change? Stay tuned as we wrap up with a strong sense of identity amidst ever imposing change and uncertainty.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Let’s get started! Fill out the form below and we will be in touch!