Logos & SROM Leadership Cohort
Welcome! Below you will find each weeks topic, note sheets for those weeks, additional resources, and assignments to prep for the coming weeks class. Many assignments will have attached hyperlinks to access content. These resources and weeks will be continually updated as the course progresses.
Week 1
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis”
Introducing: Liminality and Humanness
Note Sheet Week 1:
Summary Sheet and Recording Week 1:
Additional Resources:
Assignments in Preparation for Week 2
Read Intro through Chapter 2: Mindsight by Dan Siegel
Journal Reflection
Identify and reflect on a time in your life that was liminal and you found yourself living in a liminal space. Write about the emotions you experienced, the impact that space had on you in the moment/season, and the outcomes or consequences of that liminal space. Did you have a mentor, guide or shepherd that came alongside to make meaning or help navigate that liminal space? Reflect on the help or hurt that the guide or not having a guide had in that space.
What, if any, new realities, identities, roles, or responsibilities emerged after you moved through and out of that liminal space?
Watch Hand Model of the Brain by Dan Siegel - Link Here
Week 2
“The Latin root of the word integrate is integrare, which means ‘to make whole’ - Brené Brown”
Teaching Topic: Interpersonal Neurobiology and The Brain
Note Sheet Week 2:
Summary Sheet and Recording Week 2:
Additional Resources:
Assignments in Preparation for Week 3
Read Chapters 4-5: Mindsight by Dan Siegel
Read Genesis 15-16, 21
Reflect on each characters experience and determine who is responsible for the pain and/or consequences within the story.
Journal Reflection
Reflect on a time that you would say you ‘flipped your lid’, would you describe this as hyperarousal or hypoarousal and what were you feeling in your body during this experience? What in this situation allowed you to come back to your window of tolerance?
Watch Ted Talk- “The Danger of a Single Story”
Week 3
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
― Richard Rohr”
Teaching Topic: Choice
Summary Sheet and Recording Week 3: Posted here
Additional Resources:
Perception and Blindspots TED Talk - A magician helps us see that choosing to see is not always a choice we have.
Assignments in Preparation for Week 4
Read Chapters 7-8: Mindsight by Dan Siegel
Journal Reflection: What do you believe have formed the foundations of how you see yourself and the world around you? Identify a place in your life you find yourself moved toward rigidity and a place you are moved toward chaos, what do you believe pushes you toward rigidity or toward chaos, specifically within your examples?
week 4
“I know that on that day, in that hour, my ‘new life; started. Step by step I progressed, until I became a human again.
-Viktor Frankl”
Teaching Topic: Meaning and Trauma
Summary Sheet and Recording Week 4 : Posted here after class
Additional Resources:
Assignments in Preparation for Week 5
Read Chapter 9: Mindsight by Dan Siegel
Read Anatomy of the Soul Chapters 7-8 (right click in document and then choose rotate to get the correct orientation)
Read Psalm 139 (preferably read through once in the Passion Translation)
The Dan Allender Podcast Session One on Epigenetics and four characteristics of secure attachment: https://theallendercenter.org/2019/02/family-of-origin-1/
Journal Reflection: Where are places of trauma that you can identify, in your life and within your family tree, that you think could be impacting the way your mind makes meaning? What needs to be present for you to feel safe, with a person and/or in certain situations? What do you notice in your body when you begin to not feel safe?
week 5
“All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
- Saint Teresa of Avila”
Teaching Topic: Secure Attachment
Summary Sheet and Recording Week 5: Posted here after class
Additional Resources:
More on Attachment
Assignments in Preparation for Week 6
Read Chapters 10 & 11: Mindsight by Dan Siegel
Journal Reflection: Reflect on the attachment patterns that you inherited from your caregivers. Are you able to identify an attachment pattern or attachment style that you likely received from a caregiver? If so, are you able to make connections about how that attachment pattern influences you in the present? Are you able to identify thoughts, feelings or behaviors in the present that may be influenced by these attachment patterns? If so, write those down and reflect on what that means for you in the present.
Week 6
Teaching Topic: Trust and Vulnerability
Summary Sheet and Recording Week 6: Posted here after class
Additional Resources:
““Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.” Brené Brown”
Assignments in Preparation for Week 7
Please listen to the podcast on curiosity from the Uncensored Therapist Podcast
Read Mindsight Chapters 3, 6
Journal Reflection: Which relationships, if any, do you find it easiest to be vulnerable? Why is it easier to be vulnerable with these people? Can you identify one person/relationship you would like to become more vulnerable to? What would that look like for you to do this with that person?
week 7
““Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.”
Nat Turner”
Assignments in Preparation for Week 8
Reading: Part 1 Leadership and Self-Deception
Journal Reflection: Which emotions are more difficult or uncomfortable for you to engage in? How can you tell? Being curious about these emotions, reflect on why they may be more challenging for you? Is there anyone in your life who engages with these emotions? Who in your life are you receiving feedback or giving feedback to? If no one, what is a first step that you can begin engaging in this active form of communication?
Week 8
“Boundaries define us. They define what is me and what is not me. A boundary shows me where I end and someone else begins.
Henry Cloud”
Additional Resources:
Healthy Boundaries: Richard Rohr
Assignments in Preparation for Week
Reading: Part 2 Leadership and Self-Deception
Journal Reflection: How have you thoughts on boundaries be challenged, changed, and/or expanded through this course? What, in your life, are the barriers to setting and/or holding boundaries? In what way do you think boundaries are related to previous topics in this course?
Week 9
Teaching Topic: Impact and Repair
Additional Resources:
“How can our hearts turn from war to peace? That is the question for today.
The Anatomy of Peace”
Video on Optimal Attachment and Repair
Assignments in Preparation for Week 10
Journal Reflection: Reflect on your experiences with repair and impact in relationships, when was a time that repair felt easy? What were some of the factors that made it feel positive? What about a time when the repair was challenging or painful, what were the contributing factors? What about in leadership, have there been times you are proud of yourself how a repair or recognition of impact situation went? What support do you need in order to practice repair and impact recognition?
Reading: Part 3 Leadership and Self-Deception
week 10
“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. —Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon”
week 11
“Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
― Mary Oliver”
Assignments in Preparation for Week 12
Journal Reflection Prompt: In thinking through these last eleven weeks, what has been most challenging for you? What has resonated with you the most? and what are some stories in your own life that you see, the lack of or the presence of, each of the seven elements of transformational leadership? What are ways you want to intentionally build more presence of these elements in your life?
Final Week: Support and Self-Care
Additional Resources: