Spiritually Grounded Leadership for a Climate-Changed World
​Tentative Retreat Dates: June 21-23, November 15-17.

Growing Green Leadership is a new pilot clergy formation initiative designed to equip Episcopal clergy with spiritually deep, practically relevant leadership skills for ministry in a world shaped by climate disruption, social fragmentation, and institutional complexity. This program combines theological formation, leadership practice, and peer learning within a regional cohort of clergy from Eco Region One.

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About this Program

​Episcopal clergy are uniquely called to guide their communities through times of change, crisis, and renewal. Yet the intersecting realities of climate change, anxiety, and social fragmentation demand new leadership capacities, ones rooted in faith, grounded in spiritual practice, and enriched through community.

Growing Green Leadership responds to this call by offering a six-month cohort experience that blends:

• Spiritual grounding and theological formation that anchors leadership in faith
• Practical leadership tools such as adaptive leadership, appreciative inquiry, anti-racist community organizing, and change management, asset based community development, and more 
• Peer support structures that nurture ongoing collaboration and mutual learning​

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Who Should Participate?

​This cohort is designed for Episcopal clergy who:

• Are committed to integrating spiritual depth and leadership practice
• Seek to live into creation justice within their congregations and communities
• Want to build relational networks of support with peers across their EcoRegion

In-Person retreats will take place at the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, CT, pictured to the left.

Program Components

1. In-Person Retreats​​: ​​​Two multi-day retreats (a virtual, opening launch and an in-person closing reflection) focused on spiritual grounding, leadership tools, and relational connection among cohort members.
2. Monthly Online Formation Sessions: Six virtual gatherings explore core leadership practices and theological integration, with reflection, peer discussion, and practical skill building.
3. Cohort Support & Integration: Participants receive ongoing encouragement to weave learning into their local ministry contexts, with support from program partners and peer networks.

What You’ll Experience

• Deepened confidence in applying leadership practices to real-world ministry challenges
• Theological reflection that connects faith to leadership in times of uncertainty
• Strengthened pastoral capacity to accompany communities in grief, anxiety, and change
• A supportive cohort network that continues beyond the program period
• A framework for catalyzing creation justice and resilience initiatives in your context​

​Questions? Email, Derrick Weston, our Director of Theological Education and Formation at [email protected]!

This pilot program is offered in partnership by Creation Justice Ministries, An Episcopal Path to Creation Justice, and the Center for Spirituality in Nature.
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