• Thursday 26th June
• 10am to 1pm
• Online

Organisations have invariably been based on predictable, linear understandings of change and agency. Leadership is therefore often about knowledge, authority and making the right decisions.

New understandings of organisations, drawing on the field of complex adaptive systems, open up very different ways of conceptualising leadership.

This half-day online course will explore this thinking practically and theologically. We will explore in particular how such thinking reimagines leadership as a means of creating the right kind of environment for creativity, imagination and innovation within the ministry and mission of the church.

About the tutor

Paul Bradbury is a freelance tutor, researcher and author. He is an ordained pioneer minister in the Church of England, based in Poole, Dorset. He founded and for 16 years led Poole Missional Communities which now plays host to a number of fresh expressions of church and pioneer mission initiatives. He is an associate tutor with Sarum College, CMS & RCC Cuddesdon. He is currently studying for a DTh with the University of Roehampton exploring the connections between emergence and the ecclesiology of pioneers. He has published two books reflecting on his experience as a pioneer, most recently Home By Another Route (BRF 2019). His latest book In the Fullness of Time was published by Canterbury Press in July 2024.

Please choose the Portsmouth CMD option when booking. 12 spaces available.