The Senior Faith in Leadership Programme (SFLP) is a course offered at St George’s House within the grounds of Windsor Castle by Faith in Leadership.
CIP has a longstanding association with the Programme and collaborates with Faith in Leadership in different ways. Most recently, Dr Julia Snyder and Dr Daniel Weiss have partnered with Faith in Leadership to develop aspects of the Scripture and Violence project.
Mid-to-senior faith based personnel working in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities are invited to apply to attend.
Learning to lead across faith boundaries
SFLP’s director Krish (now Lord) Raval explains:
“During the SFLP, religious decision makers learn to lead in a way that enables them to connect and share with one another across faith boundaries: to work and reason together, to eat and talk together, to laugh together, to disagree and to share silence. You are likely to come away surprised at your own response to the course, thinking very differently about the way that you lead and about the deep resources that each faith has for serious engagement with itself, with others, and with the wider secular and religious context.”
The Faith in Leadership approach
While training for faith leaders is wide-ranging and varied, Faith in Leadership offers a distinctive opportunity as mid-to-senior religious decision makers are trained in leadership skills side by side.
SFLP deepens encounters between those who are serving the Abrahamic communities in Britain, whether in a lay or clerical capacity. Its focus is on developing leadership—by its nature is an inter-disciplinary phenomenon. Leadership of communities affects people from all walks of life and concerns the diversity of human experience.
SFLP is an opportunity for inter-faith engagement that adheres to CIP values. It explores the resources that each tradition offers for effective leadership and looks for the forms of coexistence and friendship that are possible between traditions that remain distinct and different. Coming to agreement on theology, politics or any other subject is not the aim, nor is the creation of some neutral middle ground; rather the aim is to learn to lead in contexts of change, living well with disagreement, and disagreeing more fruitfully and intelligently.
CIP is delighted to see SFLP go from strength to strength.
Queries may be explored on the dedicated Faith in Leadership website, www.faithinleadership.org.
