Yesterday, the nation watched with heartbreak as another life was taken violently at the hands of state power. An ICE officer killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, a reminder that the systems meant to protect us can also destroy us.
Such moments awaken something deep in all of us: What does faithful leadership look like when the world hurts this much?
The answer cannot be found in more programs or sharper strategies. What is needed right now—perhaps more than ever—is leadership that is spirit-grounded, resilient, compassionate, and clear about its sources of strength.
That’s why Convergence is honored to offer Leading with Spirit: Six Initiations into Soul-Grounded Leadership, a new online course co-taught with Dr. Margaret (Meg) Wheatley and Rev. Cameron Trimble beginning February 5, 2026.
This isn’t a typical leadership training. It’s a sacred pause: a collective practice of reflection, renewal, and deepening in the inner life that produces outward strength and moral clarity. Rooted in Wheatley’s wisdom and Trimble’s commitment to holistic leadership formation, this six-session course invites participants into embodied, grounded leadership that is both practical and spiritual.
Why This Matters Now
We are living in times that test our faith, endurance, and sanity. Systems are breaking down, communities are stretched thin, and the moral challenges we face are urgent. When violence, racism, and injustice disrupt the fabric of our civic life, leaders of faith are called not just to respond but to lead from a deeper source.
This course is designed for exactly that kind of leadership—leaders who do not want to retreat from the world’s pain, but learn to engage it from strength, love, and grounded presence.
As Parker Palmer reminds us,
The true professional is a person whose action points beyond his or herself to that underlying reality, that hidden wholeness, on which we all can rely.
Leading with Spirit helps you cultivate just that: a foundation that turns inward reflection into outward courage.
What “Leading with Spirit” Offers
Over six live sessions (every other Thursday from 12-1:30pm ET on Zoom), participants will be invited into reflective teaching, contemplative practice, and deep conversation rooted in mythic imagination and spiritual discernment. Sessions include:
- Opening to the World As It Is — Understanding hidden wholeness and the relational nature of life.
- The Presence of Companions — Discovering that we are not alone and learning to notice synchronicities and support beyond the visible.
- The Remembering — Reclaiming ancestral and archetypal wisdom, and naming our place in a lineage of perseverance.
- The Feminine — Exploring relational power, receptivity, and the creative intelligence of the Feminine in leadership.
- The Cosmic Vision — Seeing leadership as participation in the unfolding whole of creation.
- The Fire of Perseverance — Learning how perseverance is not stoic effort, but faithful surrender to what matters most.
Participants receive recordings of all sessions, between-session readings and practices, optional peer circles for companionship, and a closing ritual and personal vow of perseverance.
Who This Course Is For
This course welcomes anyone who feels called to lead: clergy, educators, activists, nonprofit directors, community organizers, and seekers. You do not need to identify as “religious” to participate, only a desire to live and lead from the deepest parts of yourself.
In a moment marked by displacement, violence, and fracturing, leaders who are grounded in Spirit can offer stability, courage, clarity, and presence—the very qualities communities need most.
Leading with Spirit Is Not an Escape
It is a response.
It’s a call to ground leadership in deeper sources than strategy or technique: sources of compassion, attention, wisdom, and inner strength.
If you’re feeling weary of the burdens of institutional survival and are ready to step into a deeper, more grounded way of leading, Leading with Spirit is for you. When the world does not provide firm ground, we must learn to rely on Spirit as our source of ground, direction, and confidence.