IMP Certificate Program
The IMP Certificate Program is a formation pathway for ministers, boards, and leadership teams who are ready to engage Integral Ministry Practice as a lived discipline rather than a set of ideas. It is designed for those who sense that inherited models of ministry have reached their limits and who are willing to participate in the developmental work required for new forms of leadership and governance to emerge.
This program is not primarily about acquiring skills or credentials. It is about developing the interior capacities and organizational coherence necessary to steward ministry in conditions of increasing complexity.
Readiness and Fit
The IMP Certificate Program is best suited for ministers, boards, and leadership teams who sense that their current way of organizing ministry has reached its limits and who are willing to engage both personal and systemic development over time.
This work tends to resonate most with those who are less interested in fixes and strategies and more interested in cultivating coherence, discernment, and shared responsibility within their ministry.
The Certificate Program is not designed as a solution for urgent crises, nor as a means of preserving existing power structures. It requires a willingness to examine assumptions, tolerate ambiguity, and allow authority and identity to reorganize around purpose.
What This Formation Focuses On
The IMP Certificate Program supports the development of leadership capacities and organizational structures required for purpose-led ministry in conditions of increasing complexity.
Rather than separating personal growth from systems work, the program integrates both. Participants engage questions of leadership, governance, and culture alongside their own interior development, recognizing that the quality of ministry is inseparable from the consciousness of those who lead it.
Formation within the program often engages areas such as:
• developmental leadership capacities and post-egoic authority
• discernment-centered governance and decision-making
• redefining the minister–board relationship
• Integral Job Descriptions and developmental review processes
• evolving congregational culture toward shared responsibility
How the Program Is Structured
The yearlong IM Certificate Program consists of three terms—each containing ten 2-hour virtual learning sessions for a total of 60 collaborate course room hours. Students will interact with media presentations, reading assignments, and written exercises prior to each online session, culminating in 2 – 3 hours of additional prep time. During each session, students will participate in discussion, group work, and other learning experiences. All online sessions are recorded in the event a student is unable to attend. Credit for the absence will be given upon completion of written assignments for the missed class, providing that the student watches the video recording of the missed session.
The IMP Certificate Program integrates personal formation, organizational systems, and developmental leadership. Participants engage both the interior work of leadership and the practical structures that shape ministry life.
For those who wish to explore specific aspects of the program in greater depth, the following pages offer additional detail.
Application Process
Participation in the IMP Certificate Program is by application. The application process is designed to support mutual discernment and to ensure appropriate fit for both participants and the cohort as a whole.
Applicants are asked to share context, readiness, and intentions for engaging the program. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until a cohort is filled.
Prerequisites to the IMP Certificate Program.
Students are required to have successfully completed the online asynchronous course: Integral Ministry – An Introduction and participated in the 21-day Quantum Living Process prior to making application for the Integral Ministry Certificate Program.