Explore what your spiritual community could become.
Integral Ministry Practice helps ministers, boards, and congregants develop the personal capacities and shared leadership that support purpose-centered spiritual community.
Whether you are navigating change or exploring new possibilities, begin where you are—with a question.
Ask IMP, our AI educational guide, can help you explore the ideas and practices of Integral Ministry Practice and consider their relevance to your community.
Your journey. Your place to begin.
Every person and spiritual community brings different questions, experiences, and possibilities. Integral Ministry Practice offers several ways to explore, learn, and put new understanding into practice.
Begin with Ask IMP to explore a question. Read the book to deepen your understanding. Take the introductory course for a guided foundation. Engage the Certificate Program for sustained learning and practice, or explore IMP Coaching for support with your ministry’s particular circumstances.
These opportunities can complement one another as your questions and needs evolve. Ask IMP remains available along the way—to revisit an idea, explore a connection, or support your continued learning.
Begin where you feel drawn. Let your next step emerge through exploration.
What Integral Ministry Practice Offers
A spiritual community grows through both the development of its people and the ways they organize their life together. Integral Ministry Practice brings these dimensions into relationship around an evolving shared purpose.
People
Cultivating self-awareness, emotional maturity, and the capacity to engage differences and share responsibility.
Systems
Developing leadership, governance, and community practices that support participation, clear responsibilities, and thoughtful decisions.
Purpose
Listening together for what the community is called to serve—and allowing that purpose to guide its choices and development.
What this can mean in everyday ministry
Consider a board facing a recurring disagreement. Alongside the decision itself, members can explore their own reactions, examine how authority and responsibility are shared, and ask what response best serves the community’s purpose.
IMP invites this kind of inquiry into everyday ministry—connecting spiritual understanding with how people meet, lead, and grow together.
Introduction to Integral Ministry Practice
Explore the foundations of IMP through a self-paced course for ministers, boards, and leadership teams.
This course offers a structured place to begin understanding the approach and considering its relevance to your spiritual community. It also serves as a prerequisite for the IMP Certificate Program.
IMP Certificate Program
Deepen your practice of IMP through sustained learning, reflection, and dialogue with others engaged in the development of spiritual community.
Designed for ministers, boards, and leadership teams, the Certificate Program brings personal development together with the practical work of leadership, governance, and congregational culture.
Explore how growing self-awareness and shared responsibility can support a community whose purpose guides its decisions and life together.
IMP Coaching Program
Receive personal support as you explore what is unfolding in your ministry and how you might respond.
IMP Coaching offers a reflective space for ministers, boards, and leadership teams navigating change, recurring challenges, or new possibilities.
Through conversation, examine familiar patterns, deepen self-awareness, and consider how your leadership and community practices can better serve your shared purpose. The focus and rhythm of coaching are shaped together around your circumstances.
Begin exploring through the book
Integral Ministry Practice: A New Architecture for Spiritual Community
By Rev. Dr. Gary Simmons • Foreword by Ken Wilber
What becomes possible when a spiritual community organizes its life around shared purpose?
Integral Ministry Practice explores the relationship between personal growth, congregational culture, and the structures that shape community life. It invites ministers, boards, and congregants to examine familiar patterns and develop new ways of leading and participating together.
Written for those drawn to the development of spiritual community, the book offers a foundation for reflection, conversation, and practice. No prior knowledge of Integral Theory is required.
As you read, bring your questions to Ask IMP to explore ideas and deepen your understanding.
What question are you bringing?
You may be exploring IMP for the first time, reflecting on the book, or considering possibilities for your community.
Ask IMP can help you explore your questions. If you would prefer a personal conversation about your ministry or ways to engage, contact Rev. Dr. Gary Simmons.
I can't recommend this book enough for everyone in ministry! —Rev. Dr. Jim Lockhard
