Ways to Engage with Integral Ministry Practice
Engaging Integral Ministry Practice is a matter of discernment, not consumption. This work unfolds over time and meets leaders and ministries at different depths, depending on readiness, capacity, and context.
IMP offers multiple pathways for learning, formation, and accompaniment. There is no preferred sequence—only the question: Where are we now?
IMP Introduction Course
The IMP Introduction Course is a grounded, self-paced orientation to Integral Ministry Practice. It is designed for ministers, board members, and spiritual leaders who sense that the minister-centric model has reached its limits and want language, context, and clarity—without yet committing to deeper formation.
This asynchronous, online course offers orientation rather than instruction. It helps participants understand the developmental nature of today’s leadership challenges and the foundations of purpose-led ministry. The IMP Introduction course is a prerequisite to the IMP Certificate Program.
This course is especially helpful for those who are beginning to explore systemic and developmental approaches to ministry.
The IMP Book
Integral Ministry Practice – A New Architecture for Spiritual Community offers the conceptual grounding, lived examples, and reflective framing that inform all IMP pathways. It explores why many ministries are experiencing strain, how inherited models have reached their limits, and what becomes possible when leadership and governance evolve developmentally.
The book explores the developmental limits of minister-centric ministry, the impact of complexity on leadership and systems, Evolutionary Purpose as an organizing principle, and the inner work required for systemic transformation.
This book is especially meaningful for ministers, board members, and leadership teams seeking language for what they are experiencing and a deeper frame for what may be emerging.
IMP Coaching
The IMP Coaching Program provides personal accompaniment for ministers, boards, and leadership teams navigating complexity, fatigue, or transition. Coaching creates a confidential space to slow down, reflect, and listen more deeply—to yourself, to the system, and to what is emerging.
IMP Coaching is especially supportive when leadership strain or exhaustion is present, when authority and roles feel unclear, when change is necessary but difficult to navigate, or when leaders feel isolated carrying responsibility they can no longer hold alone.
The focus of coaching is not on fixing problems, but on developing personal and collective capacity so discernment can replace reactivity.
IMP Certificate Program
The IMP Certificate Program is a formation pathway for ministers, boards, and leadership teams ready to embody Integral Ministry Practice—not just understand it conceptually. This program supports participants in developing both the interior capacities and organizational structures required for purpose-led ministry.
The Certificate Program integrates learning, reflection, and application across key areas such as developmental leadership capacities, discernment-centered governance, redefining the minister–board relationship, and evolving congregational culture toward shared responsibility.
This program is best suited for those who are ready for personal and systemic change, can tolerate ambiguity and reflective inquiry, and are willing to be shaped by the work they are leading.