LeaderWise

08/27/2026

Governing Boards need boundaries too! Healthy governance grows from clarity about roles, authority, accountability, and the relationships that allow boards, clergy, and leaders to flourish together. Our new workbook, Boards and Boundaries: Leadership Essentials, provides the foundation and tools for governing boards to have these important conversations. When boundaries are understood and honored, communities become healthier, wiser, and better equipped to live into their mission. - https://mailchi.mp/leaderwise/boards-boundaries

08/25/2026

The most common challenge for governing board leaders is to have, know, and hold boundaries. Healthy governance grows from clarity about roles, authority, accountability, and relationships that allow boards to flourish. Clarity happens best in our dialogue with one another. When boundaries are understood and honored, communities become healthier, wiser, and better equipped to live into the mission. LeaderWise's workbook on healthy boundaries for governing board members is now available! https://mailchi.mp/leaderwise/boundaries-clarity

08/18/2026

LeaderWise often encounters competent leaders who found themselves out of their depth, sinking fast, yet pretending all is well. This is when there is high potential for burnout, compassion fatigue, boundary violations, destructive conflict. Pausing to assess what is happening and how to address issues is critical in these moments. Here are two tools to use in a moment of critical pause. - https://mailchi.mp/leaderwise/power-pause

08/04/2026

Our deepest calling grows from noticing our gifts, limitations, experiences and longings. Sunny Hansen reminds us that people are more than résumés: They are stories, hopes, disappointments, values, and beliefs. If spiritual dimensions are ignored, someone may find a job but miss the life they hope to build. A helpful question might be, “What kind of life is waiting to be lived through me?” - https://mailchi.mp/leaderwise/more-than-a-job

08/03/2026

Even though the YCWI Conference 2026 is over, we're still so grateful for our many sponsors! Here are four of them who have supported YCWI this year (and in many years past).

Thank you to The Bridge for Early Career Preachers for your sponsorship of the 2026 Young Clergy Women International Conference! We give thanks for your support and continued preaching supports offered through your programming. To learn more about The Bridge, please visit: https://www.upsem.edu/centers-innovations/the-bridge-for-early-career-preachers

LeaderWise is a 2026 Young Clergy Women International Conference sponsor. We say thank you for your continued support of our organization and the programming you offer to encourage women in ministry! To learn more about LeaderWise and the different resources they offer, please visit: https://www.leaderwise.org/

Young Clergy Women International thanks United Lutheran Seminary Kindling Faith for their support of the 2026 YCWI Conference! We thank you for your continued enrichment of leaders and for the ways in which you support women in ministry. To learn more about ULS and Kindling Faith, please visit: https://kindlingfaith.com/

Iron Sharpening Iron is currently accepting new applicants for the upcoming learning cohort. We give thanks for the ways in which this program has nurtured leaders in our organization and for their continued support of Young Clergy Women International and the 2026 Conference. If you would like to learn more or apply to be considered for the upcoming cohort, please visit: https://isi.ptsem.edu/

08/03/2026

Summer is a great time to catch up on your continuing education requirements!

Especially on boundaries.

Online: Healthy Boundaries for Healthy Leaders Training
PLUS Overview of our Guarding Against Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention

Wednesday, August 12, 11 am CT- 5 pm CT

There is a spot for you!

More information:

LeaderWise’s online boundaries training workshop is lively and interactive, full of reflection and conversation. Attendees have given us feedback that our boundaries training was a great experience, AND caused them to re-evaluate some of their own practices. This live online boundaries training is

07/28/2026

How do our life experiences inform our work and vice versa? Dr. Sunny Hansen’s Integrative Life Planning framework challenges us to see workers (and ourselves) like a collage of differing worldviews, identities, cultural contexts, abilities, knowledge sources, options available, and barriers experienced. Work toward getting the full picture through prompts and an exercise shared in this article from emilie boggis: Sunny Hansen’s Critical Task of Valuing Multiculturalism - https://mailchi.mp/leaderwise/full-picture

05/19/2026

The Shape of Leadership program (Shape) graduates have gone on to serve as bishops, lead ministers of large membership congregations, preaching prize-winners, founders of entrepreneurial alternative ministries, adaptive change-makers in congregations of all sizes, and more. Susan Miller and Mary Kay DuChene talk about the program's evolution. - https://mailchi.mp/leaderwise/shape-history

05/14/2026

Upcoming Trauma-Informed Ministry Workshop
June 3 and 4, 1 - 3:30 pm CT
with Laura Beth Buchleiter and Sarah Lammert facilitating

Learn More & Register Today: https://www.leaderwise.org/workshops-programs/trauma-informed-ministry-06-2026

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05/12/2026

Reflective Pastoral Supervision (RPS) provides clergy with space to step back and reflect with curiosity on their work to deepen awareness of how they are experiencing and responding to their work. RPS strengthens both insight and integrity over time, and supports ministry leaders in fostering proactivity, healthy boundaries, and meaningful connection. Read more about how RPS allows leaders to attend to the health of their ministry - https://mailchi.mp/leaderwise/rps-healthy-ministry