Frontier: a report on the emerging women's leadership breakfast
Posted on April 18, 2009
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More than a hundred participants gathered for the NavPress/Emerging Women’s Leadership breakfast to support women leaders and spend a few morning hours reflecting on the journey of discovering new landscapes as pioneers in the emerging context.
The metaphor of frontier helped us explore what it means to find yourself in a new land after setting out on a journey for an unknown destination. Participants took in the images and artifacts around the theme of frontier at five stations: setting out, new landscapes, perils along the way, guiding lights and the road ahead. Each person took a small colored conversation card from the station that appealed to them the most. Participants with the same colored paper then formed small groups to share stories and discuss the questions.
Stories from the breakfast are soon to follow along with the images and conversation questions we shared. Until then, here are some initial impressions from attendee Gareth Powell, blogger & alt.worship movement leader in the UK:
The session was put on by a cool team of ladies…it was great to see a joint leadership model that had many different life experiences and backgrounds. It was a really hope-filled and moving time of sharing, listening and story telling.It was moving to hear women saying how refreshing it was to be able to speak first and have the men listen and not feel as thought hey had to apologise. Something that as a bloke it is easy to forget – particually one that thinks he is pretty well educated and wants to have an opinion on everything.It was a great setting that felt more like a alt.worship church service with a hundred people than a ’session’. Multi-particpatory, visual, with a few people doing a little bit from the front, a bit of ritual and lots of story-telling.
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