Integral Ministry Practice
A New Architecture for Spiritual Community
By Rev. Dr. Gary Simmons
Foreword by Ken Wilber
Is this book for you?
This book is for people who care about the future of spiritual community and are willing to explore how they—and their communities—might grow.
It may especially resonate with:
Unity, Centers for Spiritual Living, and other New Thought ministers and leaders seeking to bring spiritual principles more fully into leadership and community life.
Progressive congregational leaders exploring shared responsibility, meaningful participation, and new ways of organizing ministry.
Board members and engaged congregants who want to participate more consciously in their community’s development.
Members of the integral community interested in bringing Integral Theory into the lived experience of spiritual community.
You may recognize recurring challenges in your ministry, or simply sense possibilities worth exploring. No prior knowledge of Integral Theory is required—begin with your experience, curiosity, and willingness to learn.
What could your spiritual community become?
Spiritual communities bring people together around meaningful teachings and sincere intentions. Their continued development also depends on how people share responsibility, work through differences, and make decisions together.
Integral Ministry Practice explores the shift from minister-centered ministry toward a community whose shared purpose guides its life.
Connecting personal development with leadership, governance, and congregational culture, the book offers ideas and practices for examining familiar patterns and cultivating new possibilities.
Read it for your own reflection, explore it with your board or leadership team, and bring your questions to Ask IMP as your understanding grows.
The Integral Ministry Practice: A New Architecture for Spiritual Community with Foreword by Ken Wilber.
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What you’ll explore
Personal growth and community development
Explore how self-awareness, emotional maturity, and spiritual practice shape the way people participate in community.
Purpose-centered leadership
Consider how ministers, boards, and congregants can share responsibility and allow the community’s purpose to guide their decisions.
Culture, relationships, and belonging
Examine the patterns that influence communication, conflict, membership, and participation—and practices that support growing together.
Structures that support spiritual community
Explore approaches to governance, leadership roles, and community life that give practical expression to IMP, including Conscious Living Circles and Conscious Leadership Circles.
Putting understanding into practice
Reflect on where to begin in your own community and how personal development and organizational change can support one another over time.
A companion as you read
Ask IMP, our AI educational guide, offers a place to explore unfamiliar ideas, revisit a concept, or consider questions raised by your reading.
Try asking: “How does personal development support purpose-centered ministry?”