IMP Certificate Program
Develop your capacity to lead and participate in a purpose-centered spiritual community.
The IMP Certificate Program brings ministers, boards, and leadership teams together for sustained learning, reflection, and practice. It connects your personal development with the everyday work of leadership, governance, relationships, and congregational life.
Through study, dialogue, and practical exploration, you will examine familiar patterns, explore shared responsibility, and consider how your community’s purpose can guide its decisions and development.
Whether your ministry is navigating change or exploring new possibilities, the program invites you into an ongoing journey of growing and learning together.
Is this program a good fit for you?
The IMP Certificate Program welcomes ministers, board members, and leadership teams who want to deepen their understanding and practice of purpose-centered spiritual community.
You may be navigating challenges in your ministry or sensing new possibilities. Readiness begins with a willingness to explore your own development alongside the development of your community.
This program may be a good fit if you are willing to:
Reflect on your assumptions, emotional responses, and leadership habits.
Listen to different perspectives and learn with others.
Explore how authority, participation, and responsibility are shared.
Engage in sustained study, dialogue, and practice.
Allow learning to inform changes in your relationships and community life.
The program supports development over time. Ministries facing an urgent crisis may also need immediate, specialized support.
The application process offers an opportunity to consider together whether the program fits your circumstances, intentions, and readiness.
What you’ll explore and practice
The program connects your development as a leader with the relationships, practices, and structures that shape spiritual community.
Areas of exploration include:
Self-awareness and leadership: recognizing how personal assumptions and emotional reactions influence your participation and decisions.
Purpose-guided decisions: practicing shared discernment about what serves the community’s evolving purpose.
The minister–board relationship: examining authority, expectations, and shared responsibility.
Roles and accountability: exploring Integral Job Descriptions and developmental review practices.
Congregational culture: cultivating meaningful participation and responsibility throughout the community.
Study, reflection, and dialogue create opportunities to consider how these ideas apply within your own ministry.
How the program works
The yearlong IMP Certificate Program includes three terms, each with ten two-hour online sessions—a total of 60 hours of shared learning.
Before each session, plan for approximately two to three hours of preparation through readings, media presentations, and written exercises. Live sessions include discussion, group work, and opportunities to explore the material together.
Sessions are recorded. If you miss a session, credit requires watching the recording and completing the written assignments for that session.
Explore the program in more detail
Learn more about the program’s focus, learning objectives, curriculum, instructors, and schedule through the links below.
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.