Learning Objectives
The IMP Certificate Program is structured as a developmental pathway that unfolds over multiple terms. Learning objectives reflect the capacities, competencies, and discernment skills participants are invited to develop as they engage the program.
Objectives are organized by term to reflect the sequencing of personal formation, systems understanding, and leadership practice.
Term 1: Foundations of Integral Ministry Practice
Upon completion of Term 1, participants will be able to:
• Identify and describe the characteristics of a Teal / Second-Tier organization
• Explain how Integral Ministry Practice supports the emergence of Teal / Second-Tier elements
• Identify competencies of a Second-Tier leader required to facilitate evolutionary change
• Identify obstacles to cultural and developmental evolution
• Recognize challenges that can be managed as polarities rather than solved as problems
• Identify indicators for measuring lives transformed and positive difference made
• Articulate the value of small group ministries
• Facilitate the Quantum Living Process for teams
• Articulate the rationale behind the three core elements of Integral Ministry Practice
• Explore the foundations of Integral Ministry
Upon completion of Term 1, participants will be able to:
• Identify and describe the characteristics of a Teal / Second-Tier organization
• Explain how Integral Ministry Practice supports the emergence of Teal / Second-Tier elements
• Identify competencies of a Second-Tier leader required to facilitate evolutionary change
• Identify obstacles to cultural and developmental evolution
• Recognize challenges that can be managed as polarities rather than solved as problems
• Identify indicators for measuring lives transformed and positive difference made
• Articulate the value of small group ministries
• Facilitate the Quantum Living Process for teams
• Articulate the rationale behind the three core elements of Integral Ministry Practice
• Explore the foundations of Integral Ministry
Term 2: Awakening the Beloved Community
Upon completion of Term 2, participants will be able to:
• Identify competencies of conscious leadership
• Identify obstacles to cultural and developmental evolution
• Assess and evaluate the complexity of a welcoming system
• Apply best practices to address systemic insufficiencies
• Facilitate the Genogram Activity
• Articulate and apply principles of the Spiritual Cooperative
• Identify elements of the Beloved Community
• Implement an Integral Membership System
• Identify elements of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
Term 3: Integrating Practice and Leadership
Upon completion of Term 3, participants will be able to:
• Formulate questions aligned with the Living Curriculum
• Identify and articulate elements of the Integral Ministry curriculum that foster cultural evolution
• Facilitate guided meditation experiences as whole-body practices
• Articulate the elements and purpose of the Evolutionary Council
• Describe developmental stages of ministry
• Align job descriptions with Integral Ministry conventions
• Identify elements of the Integral Employee Review Process
• Identify the three Faces of God
• Identify elements of creating a Sacred Service Ministry
• Articulate differences between Sacred Service and volunteerism
• Identify the competencies of an Integral Ministry Practitioner
Required Texts
Term 1
• Reinventing Organizations (Illustrated version) by Fredrick Laloux
• Weird Church
• A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber
• Emerging Church by Bruce Sanguin
Term 2
• Being the Beloved Community by Jim Lockard
• SQ 21 by Cindy Wigglesworth
• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A new paradigm for sustainable success, by Dethmer, Chapman, Klemp
Term 3
• Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd
• Integral Christianity by Paul Smith
• What’s In the Way Is the Way by Mary O’Malley
• The Abundance Project by Derek Rydall