ML530: Lifelong Development (4 units, intensive format)

J. Robert Clinton, Professor of Leadership
Summer 2005 Pasadena

DESCRIPTION:

This course explores the nature of Christian leadership development. Leadership emergence theory is a grounded theory derived from the comparative study of many life histories of biblical, historical, and contemporary leaders.
The development of a leader takes a lifetime. God processes or shapes a leader in terms of leadership character, leadership skills, and leadership values. The processes that God uses can be studied, categorized, and characterized. They can be integrated around a timeline of a leader that shows development from the big picture, the lifetime perspective. Patterns can be observed as God develops a person over a lifetime. These variables—that is, the large umbrella concepts of the course, processing, time, and patterns of response—form the backbone of the course. Emphasis in this course is upon recognition of values and lessons learned in God's processing as well as integration of them along a timeline.
Many individual concepts flowing from these variables such as various process items, the unique timeline, boundaries, giftedness development pattern, and many, many more are examined, all with a view toward understanding one's own shaping. The thrust of this course involves learning perspectives that will aid life-long development.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

A student will have,

• proven the ability to analyze any leader’s life using leadership emergence theory concepts.

• proven the ability to construct a case study involving the following elements: unique timeline with additional information on it (response patterns, etc.); listing of process items; a narrative capsule (personal history); social base inventory; analysis of 5 key process items; major principles for the 5 key process items; analysis of one major boundary; giftedness analysis; destiny processing analysis; life purpose paragraph.

• familiarity with numerous leadership emergence concepts including: process items, response patterns, time-line definitions as seen by use in a written case study and exercises turned in daily;

• worked through analysis of union life concepts as seen in 10 spiritual formation inputs. See syllabus for details.

COURSE FORMAT:

This is an intensive two-week course. The course meets 4 1/2 hours per day, from 0800 a.m. to 12:30 each day for 10 days. The first session of each day includes a time of spiritual formation. Then there are instructor lectures and question/answer times. And finally there will also be small group activities that apply the concepts for the last hour of the class.

REQUIRED READING:

ML530 Class Syllabus (available on CD and electronically via pipeline; bookstore can print out if needed)
ML530 Reader Articles (available on CD).
Clinton, J. Robert. The Making of a Leader. Colorado Springs: NAV Press, 1998.
Clinton, J. Robert. Leadership Emergence Theory. Altadena: Barnabas Publishers, 1989.
Trebesch, Shelley. Isolation. Altadena: Barnabas Publishers, 1997.
Choice of One:
Samuel. Altadena: Barnabas Publishers, 1993.
Barnabas. Altadena: Barnabas Publishers, 1997.
Joshua. Altadena: Barnabas Publishers, 1990.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Reading of all listed materials plus additional case studies in Reader on CD handed out in class.

2. Daily exercises from Leadership Emergence Theory and articles designed for analysis of a student’s own life.

3. A case study on the student's own life using leadership emergence theory concepts to prompt analysis. This case study will be completed by the end of summer quarter. This is a major paper. You will do sections of this paper during the ten days of class and get feedback on these sections so as to improve them. The final case is turned in at the end of summer quarter.

4. Th.M. Students: Presentation in small group from biographical case study.

PREREQUISITES: Students must have at least three years of ministry experience or equivalent. • PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL FROM INSTRUCTOR IS NEEDED TO AUDIT and must be obtained prior to first class. Auditors must do all class work and major project in addition to paying for grading. Written forms for Audit available in SIS advising office.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Fulfills core competency in MA ICS program.

FINAL EXAM: No written examination. Final class day students share orally the results of the class on their lives.

Last Date Edited: March 21, 2005