Strengthening Spirit–Releasing Potential: Spiritual Direction for Leadership and Organizational Development
Ebook
Have you ever wondered what releasing spiritual potential in the workplace might do for your organization? In today's climate of colossal and incredibly fast global change, the world needs new ways to develop discerning leaders to consciously lead our community of life into the future. Though there are many books on leadership, they rarely engage the importance and relevance of spiritual development and spiritual accompaniment in organizational discernment and leadership development. Spiritual formation through spiritual direction has the potential to transform the way we lead organizations in secular and religious settings. Drawing on the wisdom and experience of leaders and spiritual directors, this book, first, broadens our understanding of how spiritual direction can be a resource for leadership and organizational development; second, supports spiritual directors in developing their corporate practice and their understanding of the relevance of spiritual direction for a wider community.
“Linking cutting edge organizational thinking with Ignatian
spiritual direction, which assumes the implicated order of a divine
creation, she shows how leaders can open institutional paths which
release untapped potential to transform their organizations in
making real differences in the world, particularly when gripped by
crises.”
—John Bazalgette, founding member of The Grubb Institute
“It is rare indeed to find a book in which in-depth scholarship,
skilfully integrated across multiple disciplines, is charged with
the sparks of stardust that illuminate whole new horizons. Dr.
Miles has achieved this in remarkable measure. Her book is an
essential companion, inspirer, and empowerer of all who engage in
roles of authentic and holistic leadership in humanity’s quest to
become the best we can possibly be in whatever field we
serve.”
—Margaret Silf, author and retreat facilitator, Scotland
“Skillfully and masterfully interweaves the dynamics of spiritual
direction with spiritual leadership. It emphasizes in various
creative ways how important a leader’s inner life and prayerful
presence is for the spiritual well-being of an organization and its
members.”
—Maureen Conroy, RSM, author of Looking into the Well:
Supervision of Spiritual Directors
“In this book, Dr. Bernadette Miles shows how, through Ignatian
spiritual direction, organizations can find deeper meaning and
purpose by way of attending to their members’ inner lives. Using
knowledge from psychology, organizational dynamics, ethics,
spirituality, and her own research, she points to how organizations
might develop their creative potentials and fulfill meaningful
roles beyond their transactional habits.”
—Susan Long, Director of Research and Scholarship, National
Institute of Organisational Dynamics Australia
“The approach draws not only on the expertise of a seasoned
spiritual director in the Ignatian tradition, and on a background
of business administration, but is presented, refreshingly enough,
from the perspective of a committed lay woman who has combined
raising a family with co-establishing a dynamic spirituality center
in Melbourne.”
—Geoffrey Williams, SJ, Sessional Professor of Ignatian
Spirituality, Regis College, University of Toronto
- Title: Strengthening Spirit–Releasing Potential: Spiritual Direction for Leadership and Organizational Development
- Authors: Bernadette Miles, Wilkie Au
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725270763, 9781725270749, 9781725270756, 1725270765, 1725270749, 1725270757
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725270763
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:23:38Z
Bernadette Miles is an Honorary Post-Graduate Researcher with
Stirling Theological College at the University of Divinity,
Melbourne, Australia. She is co-director and co-founder of Kardia
Formation P/L who provide spiritual formation for spiritual
directors, leaders, and all who seek to strengthen the spiritual
self.